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re: Modem recognition & installing XP
Saturday, July 1, 2006 at 7:19 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by traknarf
(215 messages posted)
Her machine is not so old - a soyo with a 1.2 GHz AMD
CPU and 256 MB RAM.
How can you tell about bad modems? This was a
Fred Meyer $29 Diamond Supra-Max LE PCI Fax modem.
What a pain this modem stuff is! I have *ALWAYS* had
modem problems! Each installation gives me grief.
It is almost like the whole PC and Windows setup is not
made to have a modem in the system! This COM stuff
and IRQ's is maddening......
The 'average person' is working completely in the dark
trying to install modems. The "Troubleshooting" things
for both the modem AND windows are simply bad jokes!
Do MAC's have such problems?
DoctorBill
On Saturday, July 1, 2006 at 6:33 pm, Rich Kurtz wrote:
>It's quite possible the modem is defective. I seem to get about one in 5 bad (of
>the cheap $6 ones I buy to repair computers with). Also, some just don't work well
>on older machines and loading XP will not help.
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>I would first try a different brand modem.
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>As for loading XP over 98, not a good idea. Almost always seems to result in strange
>problems occuring.
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>If you want to load XP, buy a new hard drive. Remove the existing one, install the
>new one as master then load XP. After it's loaded, then install the old one as a
>slave drive and you can copy over any data you want to keep.
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>You will need to reinstall all programs but though time consuming, it's not a bad
>idea as it allows you to decide what programs are still usefull. A lot of stuff
that
>ran on 98 will not run on XP or requires an update to run.
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