I wonder if this modem is not PnP?  If not there may be jumper options which 
need to set on the modem card. (?)

William
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Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 5:16 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] modem port setting


> Greetings All,
>
> I am re-vamping an old Compaq 7478. I installed a fresh copy of windows 
> 98se
> but had problems with display drivers so I installed a radeon 9250 PCI 
> card
> and display works great. Now I'm having trouble with windows locating the
> Actiontec modem. It appears in device manager and is assigned to com port 
> 5 but
> in control panel/system only port 1 is listed. I used add hardware wizard 
> to
> add  four more com ports but now in system the listed ports are 1, 2, 3, 4 
> and
> 6. I  can't find a way to change what port the modem is assigned to.
>
> Since I had to move the modem to a different slot to make room for the 
> video
> card, I wonder if this has somehow caused the problem (are port numbers
> associated with slot numbers?).
>
> I've tried un-installing and re-installing the modem both physically and
> through the add new hardware wiz.
>
> What should I try?
>
> Many Thanks,
> -Phil Williams-
>
>
>
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