Does your motherboard setup (BIOS) have a setting to disable the modem?
David Grossman

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul J Traynor" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 12:10 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Preventing hardware from being detected!


> Hi All,
>
> Recently added a USB modem to my Acer laptop because the built in modem
> was fried in a storm. Now however even though I try and remove the old
> modem from device manager in windows 98 upon reboot it keeps reinserting
> the drivers. I have tried  different things to remove it but nothing
> works. The modem as far as I can tell doesn't come out as it seems to be
> permanantly built in to the case of the laptop so can't remove it. Can
> anyone tell me a solution for this as it seems to be causing problems
> for the USB modem.
>
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Paul.
>

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