Hi,
    I've suffered through both of these situation and can tell you that the
modem is the hardest of the 2. This modem is one of those 'dsp' kind that work
more with the cpu than being an actual modem. You need to find out the
manufacturer (mfr.) of the modem. Some brands that come to mind is Acer,
Creative Labs sound blaster, Newcomm (really lousy..imho). The only way I could
get mine to work is to load the mfr. drivers. Now I only use 'real' modems. The
person or company who built the machine should be able to tell you the mfr of
the modem.
    As for the PCI bridge, you need to get the driver for the motherboards
chipset (using a TX chipset?). I got mine from Intel since I use the TX chipset
motherboards. I usually never have problems with this PCI bridge error 'til I
reinstall.
    If you need any help...let me know.
                                                        Wayne



Mark Rode wrote:

> Posted on behalf of  Eddie Apostol by Moderator Mark Rode
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Hello everyone.
>
> Now its my turn to put my hat into the foray.
>
> I have two questions which I hope someone here can help me out.
>
> Background:
> My cousin's system is a Pentium II 300 mHz, 32 Meg SDRAM, 64 Bit SBAwe Sound
> Card, ATI 3D Rage II+ 2 Meg vid card, 4.3 Gig FAT32 HD, and a PS/2 Mouse on
> COM1. Win 95 rev.B OSR2, and a 56K modem which I will tell you about.  All
> the latest greatest software drivers installed for all the cards.
>
> 1.  Previously, his system was constantly crashing  with invalid page faults
> in USER.EXE, GDI.EXE, and his modem (though working) was connected to COM3
> (which did not exist).  As well, When dialing up to the Internet using Dial
> Up Networking, it said that DUN was missing some necessary files which had
> to be reinstalled.  I attempted to remove and reinstall DUN, but to no
> avail. (note:  my cousin was also using SPRYNet/Compuserve's custom dialer).
> After discovering that these crashes were too frequent for any practical
> work to be done, I decided to install Win 95 OSR 2 on his system again.
>
> 2.  I renamed the current windows directory win_old, and renamed the win.com
> file to win.win so that OSR2 will not think it was installing over a current
> installation (as per everyone's advice on this listserv).  The
> reinstallation of Windows 95 was a success (incl. sound card and graphics
> card), except for the following.
>
> 3.  The modem was detected, but no driver found.  I searched the Windows 95B
> CD, and even attempted to set it up as COM 2, generic modem at 28.8K.  But
> no connection could be made to the modem.
>
> The modem is detected when the computer is powered up;  Award BIOS shows the
> following:
>
> Card 1:56000 D F TAM FDSP DSVD WinModem
>
> Win 95b detects the same card but treats it as an "unknown device" and won't
> detect it as a modem.
> If anyone knows where I can find an installation program with drivers for
> this make of modem, or how to install it as a modem within the Win95 driver
> list , that would be great!
>
> 4.  Another device, known as the PCI bridge, is also detected as an unknown
> device.  Originally, the USB (Universal Serial Port) support was also
> detected as an unkown device, but I located the installation program for it
> on the Win95B CD,  But I don't know where to locate the driver for this "PCI
> Bridge" whatever it is.  If anyone knows how to successfully install this,
> or what the heck it is, that would be great!!
>
> Thanks.
>
> Eddie Apostol
> Multimedia Applications Designer, Instructor
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