re: Question about 'Setting up Dial-Up Networking'
Sunday, June 16, 2002 at 9:27 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by JmC
(14166 messages posted)
When you used Scanreg did you back it up with a version of the registry dated prior
to this problem? Is this Win98 or 98se?
On Sunday, June 16, 2002 at 8:29 pm, Timothy Hinds wrote:
>I have a question about Setting
>up Dial-Up Networking:
>I'm out of things to try & I'd appreciate any fresh ideas anybody can give me.
My
>wife's Windows 98 system (from Micron) reported a registry error yesterday, which
>SCANREG claimed to have fixed. However, since then, Dialup Networking does not
see
>the U.S. Robotics 33.6K internal PnP fax modem that was working fine with DUN before.
> When I try to add a DUN connection, DUN doesn't see the modem, but instead searches
>for a modem on COM1 & COM2.
>I have tried all possible combinations of the following, including all of the at
>once:
>* remove the modem logically in Win98
>* remove the modem physically, reboot, reinstall after verifying its absence
>* remove the COM1 & COM2 ports from Win98
>* disable the serial ports in the BIOS
>* remove & reinstall the Dialup Adapter
>* uninstall & reinstall Dialup Networking itself
>I have verified that the modem works fine in another machine.
>I have tried different IRQ settings for the comm ports in Windows and tried enabling
>different combinations of them in the BIOS, trying to get them to go elsewhere than
>COM1 & COM2. I've succeeded in getting them to be COM5 & COM6, but then DUN only
>searches for a modem on COM5 & COM6, but not COM1 where I made the modem go, or
COM3
>where I let it go at other times. DUN insists on only searching the serial ports
>Windows sees. When it fails to see a modem, it lets me attempt to configure one
>manually, which I can do except that it only gives me the option of having it be
>on one of the system-visible com ports. I've even tried having the modem share
an
>IRQ with one of the system-visible comm ports, but DUN still doesn't see it.
>If you have any idea of what to do, or even if you can confirm that this really
is
>as weird as it seems to me, I'd greatly appreciate it. Right now I'm staring at
>a possible system rebuild (from FDISK on up, with a few dozen applications to reinstall
>after I get Win98 back up)! If you can give me any better alternatives, or even
corroborate
>that this is the only way to go, I'd be grateful. You can post a reply here, please,
>and/or email to tim@thinds.com.
>Thanks!
>
>
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