It is known that some devices (such as the creative 128bit sound card will conflict with the gigabyte motherboard with the old phoienx bios) This is similiar to what u are witnessing. Simply remove the modem from the PCI slot and put it in another one. SImple BYE Daniel Skilleter Pacpacific Australia Wholesale PC and Peripherals >From: Bharat Ale <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: [PCBUILD] Modem SM56 installation problem >Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 22:24:50 +0530 > >PCBUILD Digest - 6 Jun 2001 to 7 Jun 2001 (#2001-159)Hi all, > >SM56 is a cheap PCI internal modem using Motorola chipset. I have installed >several of them without problem in many machines. But I am having problem >installing one in a Celeron 333 computer. The modem works fine in other >machine but when I install it in this particular machine it gets >autodetected and installed with right drivers but doesn't work (modem >failed >to response). I think its IRQ conflict - I have disabled COM2 in BIOS and >hence the modem works in COM2 grabbing IRQ12 automatically. I tried to >force >it use some other IRQ but it always grabs IRQ12 everytime ( I reserved >IRQ12 >from device manager, assigned IRQ12 to Legacy ISA in BIOS etc) but it >always >takes IRQ12 which is taken by PCI Steering also. > >I have removed sound cards and other most probable conflcting devices and >drivers but have not succeeded in making this modem work in this particular >computer. I am very much sure its conflcting with something else on the >computer. > >Also in this same computer, whenever the main voltage fluctuates and UPS >kicks in, the keyboard doesn't work any more. Either the keyboard has to be >disconnected and reconnected again or the computer has to be restarted. > >Any advice is appreciated. I am in digest mode, so a copy of mail directly >to me is helpful. > >Bharat > > PCBUILD's List Owners: > Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]> > Drew Dunn<[log in to unmask]> _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://freepctech.com/pcbuild.shtml