All of the slots of a particular type (IDE, PCI) are identical.  They are
attached to the bus in exactly the same fashion with the exact same pinouts,
hence the name "parallel bus".  Moving the card to a different slot will
have no affect on anything. (There is a -slight- chance that a connector
could be bad, but based on his problem description, I doubt it.)

I believe his problem is that his modem is trying to use either COMM 1 or
COMM 2 and he has not turned off the corresponding COMM port in the BIOS.

If my guess is correct, then he needs to either change the modem to COMM 3
or 4.  OR disable the appropriate COMM port in the BIOS.

Jim Meagher
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of James Kerr
>
> Did you try switching the slot with the vieo card? Try it with
> the modem in
> the top slot.
>
>      ...James
>
>
> >I recently pick up a pci modem.  It will not work keeps giving me a
> >message that the port is all ready open. I tried to change the resources.
> >No help.
> >
> >It's an ActionTec V.90 56bps
> >I'm running an
> >Intel 233mmx 96meg of Ram
> >Intergraph Voodoo card 6meg
> >5.7 Drive
> >
> >Thanks
> >MJ
> >
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