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. What am I missing, the only thing I thought was weird
>>was that win95 could rebuild the driver base for the 28.8 even though I
>>took them out.Any help would be appreciated.

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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