Modem Not Found-Help!
Jerry Andritsis
computer with Intel CA810 motherboard. The computer came equiped with an
internal Conexant (Rockwell) MW560CI Softk56 (PCI) modem. It's a basic cheapy
PC that I got for free which I'm using as a second. The computer came loaded
with Windows 98, the modem was then working fine but I scrubbed the hard drive
and imaged (did a hard drive copy) of my main computers hard drive to this HP
machine. It's now a Win95 machine.
Everything worked fine except the modem. When I check device manager I've got
something called a "modem enumerator" under a top heading of HFSModem which is a
Grey diamond symbol, it lists a "Conexant PCI Modem Enumerator" but it has the
Yellow exclamation (!) indicating that there is a problem. It says that there
is a memory conflict in the resources section. A properties check does not
reveal it to be like a normal modem but rather like a device. Never seen this
modem enumerator thing and no modem shows up in the device manager like it
normally would. Modem is not working and modem diagnostics say that there is no
modem out there. In addition to the modem enumerator, the device manager is
showing a "Unknown Other Device" a "PCI Card." I've tried manually adding the
modem, and it will then show under modems (and so does the HSFModem and Modem
Enumerator) but the modem still does not work and acts like nothing is there.
I've tried wiping everything, removing both devices, even wiping the registry of
all modem references and doing a re-detect with no luck.
When I do a "detect new hardware" windows does not find the modem. When I first
ran windows (95) at first start-up it did detect a bunch of devices, including
this modem enumerator and unknown PCI Communications Device. The driver I'm
using is off of the HP Recovery Disc, which is for Windows 98 but HP Tech
support says it should work under 95 and in fact many of the files are called
XXX95XX.VXD indicating a 95 base. HP does not want to support 95 and is not
specifically providing drivers.
When it did the first hardware detect I pointed this modem enumerator device to
the modem files and it took them fine. I've also later tried it by pointing
this PCI Communications Card device to the modem files (I think that this will
set up as a modem but I don't remember, anyway, still the modem is not
recognized even though it shows in the device manager). I set up on COM1 which
seems to be a good COM port as I get port problems reported when I set it up on
COM2 and try to run the diagnostic. COM1 is using the correct IRQ and 3F...
address (I forget exactly). I think the drivers are okay and it WAS working
before under 98, but I need to have it running under 95.
Any ideas from the experts. I've built a few machines and know enough to be
dangerous but this one has me stumped.
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Take care..
Jerry
Ponder this: Christ was either crazy, a liar, or he is what
he claims he is - God! Isn't he worth checking into?
Jan Alter
Go into your bios and disable com 2. You may find com 2 sitting in the
Peripherals area of the bios. It differs depending on your bios maker.
Jan Alter
bea...@netreach.net
This should free up IRQ 3 for Windows to suddenly realize there's a modem on
your machine.
Wizard <nos...@never.org> wrote in message
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> You simply need to install the correct drivers for your modem.
Jerry Andritsis
Jerry Andritsis
v.vacy-ash
www.driverguide.com for example. The enumerator is because it is a software
modem. The "Unknown Other Device" a "PCI Card." could be the modem's wave
device - you should have the wave device, the enumerator and the modem
itself.
My conexant always used com3 or 4. I had 1 and 2 disabled in the bios to
make more resources available (have you checked for hardware conflicts in
device manager to see what the modem is clashing with?) My conexant always
wanted the same resources and it did cause problems sometimes.
> Ponder this: Christ was either crazy, a liar, or he is what
> he claims he is - God! Isn't he worth checking into?
CS Lewis?
ChakoRules
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On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:58:04 GMT, Jerry Andritsis <newl...@gte.net>
planet usenet earth spoke out cries of help with the following words:
Michael
they are installed. You can try to remove your other devices through the
device manager and then physically remove them till you only have the video
card in the system, then add in the modem. It should then install the wave
device after it takes the drivers. You may have to change the com port it's
on as well. If you don't use your com1 and com2 ports, disable them in the
bios and you may be less likely to have a device jam.
"Jerry Andritsis" <newl...@gte.net> wrote in message
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newlife
there is this this modem enumerator device thing is some kind of a
placeholder
for the modem and acts as some kind of PCI Bridge since it is a "soft"
modem. At one time I deleted this thing. Although
there is actually a modem device shown as well. It is REALLY difficult
to uninstall this thing
once you get it initially installed and if you initially had outdated
driver, like I did, then you're
hosed. It's a REALLY tough modem to get working right, from all the
stuff I've read and not a
great performer. I was about to buy a better modem but, actually, I'm
cheap, the computer is
not my main one and was free, and I really wanted to lick this thing.
Actually, my real problem
was I was trying to load Windows 95 on a machine that was designed for
98. The motherboard
was an Intel 810 with the 810 chipset and 95 did not recognize the
chipset (the chipset was
put out post-Windows 95, or something). As a result the wrong PCI
drivers were being
installed. A patch from Intel and re-runnihg 95 to re-identify my new
hardware fixed a lot of
problems including partially fixing the modem. Wiping out all
references to the modem in the
registry, system.ini, and c:\windows\system directory and running an
updated drivers package
form HP (as stated to "to solve connectivity issues" fixed everything up
fine. I still can't
connect as fast as my main machine, only 36000 (max) versus 44000 on my
main computer,
but, oh well.. Also, no more disconnects and I can connect up on the
first try (not two, three,
or four).
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