Do you have the driver disk for the Conextant driver install disk? If so,
just run the disk. If not do a Google search for the drivers for that modem,
and save the results to a location that you won't forget, and then run the
"Add new hardware wizard" in 98SE, install the drivers from that location.
Conextant drivers were not on my old version of 98SE, but they were included
on the recovery disk of the HP that I used to have. I copied those drivers
off that recovery set and saved them on a jump drive for a long time before
I finally got rid of the HP.

Hope that helps a bit, however others may have a bit more experience with
that particular modem.

Good luck,

Dean Kiley

> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: [PCBUILD] re com port 3
>
> Hello,
>
> My father has an odd problem.
>
> He uses tray assemblies for 3 hard drives.
>
> One hard drive running Win98SE shows the computer's internal modem on Com
> 3. He is able to connect to the internet and surf and send emails etc.
>
> He has bought another hard drive, had it installed in a tray and has
> formatted it and installed Win98SE. Everything seems to be working well
> except there is NO Com 3. The OS on this hard drive cannot detect the
> modem. It cannot have been unseated because when you replace the old hard
> drive in the tray, Com 3 and the modem has returned.
>
> I don't have the complete specs for this computer (Sorry). It does has a
> 56 K internal conextant modem, 256mb RAM. The Hard drive that "works" is a
> 10 Gig, and the one that "doesn't work" is a 40 Gig.
>
> Any suggestions will be most welcome!
>
> Thank you
>
> Anne Smith

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