Hi Michael,  I have 3 56k Winmodems, two are in use. I have had the exact same
problems. Have you gone to System Properties and then to Device Manager and see if
there is the great yellow question mark and a + next to it, if so open other
devices and see if it shows a modem. If it does highlight the modem and click on
remove it and then close System Properties and restart. When your PC restarts it
should prompt you for the drivers. If that works for you, it is possible you will
receive two errors after you reboot from installing the drivers, just click ok on
both prompts and it should work fine. If so just E-mail me personally and I 'll
explain on removing the error prompts or if this does not work, I have a few other
options of making your PC recognize your modem. USR-3Com never were able to help
me install the modem, they sent "special drivers " and it still did not work. You
do not want remove the com 2 from Device manager, it has to be disabled in cmos.
Hope this helps.

Scott Kline

Michael Galante wrote:

> Wayne Aiello wrote:
> >
> > At 11:42 PM 4/11/98 -0400, you wrote:
> > >Wayne,  When installing a telepath 56k Winmodem (Gateway), you must disable
> > >your onboard com2.  The modem is wired to use com2 and it will not be
> > >recognized unless the onboard port is disabled.  3Com/USR makes the
> > >Telepath.  Maybe this will help.
> >
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >>I'm working on a system with an AMI motherboard with Cyrix/IBM 586-133  32
> > >>megs trying to install a 3com/usr 56Kwinmodem, system had a 28.8 sportster
> > >>before. problem is I can't get win95 to recognize it. I've re-installed
> > >>serveral times, gone to 3com's site and downloaded the latest drivers and
> > >>followed their instructions for removing the old (28.8) software drivers.
> > >>At first win95 kept giving error messages saying "can't open com port
> > >>already in use by some other device". However the last few times it didn't
> > >>even see the modem at boot-up (56K winmodem model # 5683). I've even used
> > >>their registry cleaner to remove any reference to the old modem. After all
> > >>this I put the old 28.8 back in, of course win95 saw it and required no
> > >>set-up to function.
> >
> > Hi again Listreaders:
> > There was no way in CMOS to disable the COM ports so first tried disabling
> > Com 2 in device manager(didn't help)then removed it from the same
> > place(didn't help)anyone esle want to take a shot at this(need help bad)!!!
> >
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> > Wayne Aiello <[log in to unmask]>
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>
> i just ran into the same problem, spent about 3 hours trying to install
> my new 56.6 modem.i kept getting conflicts with com2. open up help and
> go to troubleshooting.
>
> michael galante
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