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 The NOSPIN Group provides a monthly newsletter with great tips, information and ideas: NOSPIN-L, The NOSPIN Magazine Visit our web site to signup: http://freepctech.com