re: Win98SE seeing Com3 NOT during modem install
Friday, September 3, 2004 at 10:01 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Randy Ohman
(2 messages posted)
I have a Model 56SF-92 56K V.92 Internal ISA Controller-based Data/Fax Modem from
BestData that is giving me fits while I try to get it into a Win98SE machine. Debug
shows com1, 2, and 3, but device manager and the modem install routine in windows
shows only com1 and 2 along with LPT1. It was purchased a year ago, and on the BestData
site the latest driver is 2000 vintage. I did the 'tickle the modem' commands from
command prompt in Safe Mode, but it did nothing. The modem worked great in a Win2K
machine I took it out of. It has manual jumpers for com and IRQ, currently set at
com3 and IRQ9, the first open ones, in the device manager list. I think it must be
a windows thing since the bios sees the port. Any ideas?
On Friday, July 9, 2004 at 10:00 pm, STELE E wrote:
>Hi Everett and Friends,
>Well, my …. IRQ SHARING related real bummer issue is that I have been tryyyyyying
>to replace a dead 3COM 56k PCI controller based modem with the exact same model
but
>there are no IRQs available anymore even though I have not added anything new and
>don’t have much hardware on it anyway. I have a 5838 Presario. The installer software
>says “no IRQs available” right away whether I have the new modem in the computer
>or not during the install sequence.
>
>COM2 is “missing” in the Device Manager under the “PORTS {COM & LPT}.
>When I fake it… and “install a modem” using the modem install dialog box in the
control
>panel … just to see what happens… it installs it on COM1. COM2 and COM3 are not
listed
>when I check the DIAGNOSTICS tab… is that relevant?
>
>However, the COMs listed in my HKEY are COM1, COM2 and COM5. Also, when I put the
>modem it is recognized as new hardware but it thinks it is a “serial port device”,
>not a modem.
>
>To “check” the new modem out I have tried putting another modem in, and in different
>PCI slots… wheww… but the responses have been the same. Flashed BIOS. Reinstalled
>WIN98. Yeh sure.
>
>When the non-functioning modem first died, I used the diagnostic program on the
3COM
> CD to look at it. It saw it and said it was AT”ing”and looping OK but it was unable
>to detect dial tones. After I messed around with un-install and whatever else I
did???
>To prepare for the new modem, the 3COM’s diagnostic soft could not see the modem
>at all. The same diagnostic program can’t see the new modem either… DANG me darn
>it.
>
>ANY clues for me, Stele E /Boulder, CO
- Written in response to:
- re: IRQ Sharing (STELE E: Friday, July 9, 2004 at 10:00 pm)
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