First the easy answer:  You do have the motherboard, it is integrated or
onboard.  Removing the piece that plugs into the motherboard is only half of
the modem, the rest is actually part of the motherboard itself.  Now, the
hard part:   If you can locate the motherboard manual either the paper one
your received with the board, if you were lucky, or by going online to find
it, you will find there is a jumper on the board you can disable so the
computer will not see the modem.  It is also possible you have a BIOS
setting that can be disabled too, I would check this first for the newer
boards.  Beware that by disabling the onboard modem on some boards can also
disable onboard sound!  PCChips boards and other inexpensive (read CHEAP)
boards have this feature.  On a side note, it was possible your onboard
modem was perfectly good, just a incorrect configuration or a corrupt file
could have caused the glitch.  These are modems that are software rather
than hardware operated and are the cause of lots of grief when we do not
have the correct drivers handy to reinstall.  I hope this helps.
Howard Rubin
Fortaleza, Brazil

RE:  Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 23:29:53 -0400
From: Jamie Adams <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: PCI Modem in XP

I recently replaced my modem, due to inability to connect to the internet.
Well, when I installed the new modem (differnet brand modem and installed in
differnet PCI slot)the computer was still trying to install the old one. I
boot up the computer and it auto detects my old modem (HSP56 MR) which is
not installed at all, I removed it from the computer. I have to open device
manager and manually uninstall it every time I boot up. Now the new modem
(Lucent Win Modem) installed fine and it works fine. But why does it think
the old one is still in COM port 1?
Jamie

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