I am building 2 PCs from bits for friends. Both are working fine with
a clean Win98. They are a Compaq Deskpro and an HP Vectra. Both
computers display almost identical 'faults' that I believe I am doing
something wrong and it's not the technology that's at fault.
I am attempting to put HSF V90 'bog standard' soft modems into them
but neither of them will detect them by PnP. Manual install refuses to
install it on the existing two ports (1 & 2) and I have tried installing
another
com port but windows is unable to open it when I shift the modem onto it..
I must be doing something wrong or missing something. Can anyone help
please? e.g. I currently have the modem on com 4 (the option given to me
during  installation.) but com 4 doesn't appear when I look in Control
Panel/system/Device Manager which was the option given to me during
installation.  How do I enable this port please? All drivers are loaded ok
and Diagnostics show healthy modems.

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