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| camperr21 Tl Posts: 3 USA | Posted - 8/18/2005 10:57:39 PM    my win modem on an ibm thinkpad would freezeup shorty after goeing online. I checked all com ports and i/o's against a good running machine all the same except mineshowedi/o for an old d-link no longer in use. unable to figure it out i formatted and installed a win98se i had laying around (retail version}it really sucks.It will only put on com1 ibmbios suck can only able or enable current serial port no choices.my main computer shows all ports 1-16 and i can change things around on a plain old win98 . any help would be greatly appreciated as need this one to go online to help fix three others.(no floppy on main computer} Thanks in advance camperr21 |
| v.Richard Tl Posts: 6222 USA | Posted - 8/24/2005 10:45:35 AM  Win98se does not include driver for the modem. The modem does not install to a BIOS-enumerated COM port - the modem driver creates the virtual COM port for the modem, which will be listed after the driver is successfully installed. You cannot install the modem/driver using Windows Add New Hardware. Aloha! Richard. |
| camperr21 Tl Posts: 3 USA | Posted - 9/27/2005 2:54:51 PM on 8/24 you respnded to my question. i just wanted to say thank you. few sites actually reply so i never really looked. your answer beats all my site searching.simply put with a win modem nothing exsits untill you have the CORRECT driver installed. i will contact a friend to download the driver. again thank you and keep up the good work, we simpletons need you. |
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