[TriLUG] Warning: M$ Question

[ronyoung at nc.rr.com]

Just in case the (L)user was mucking around with the bios you might
check that the onboard modem has been disabled

Ron Young
(M) 919-621-9015

----- Original Message -----
From: Glenn Hennessee <Glenn_Hennessee at ncsu.edu>
Date: Thursday, December 8, 2005 11:18 am
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Warning: M$ Question

> Mark Freeze wrote:
> > I realize that this is a Linux forum but...
> > 
> > I have a customer who's modem quit working a couple of days ago. 
> When I
> > looked at it the modem wasn't present in device manager.  I 
> figured it was a
> > bad modem and replaced it.  When I booted the machine, plug-n-
> play did not
> > even realize that a new card had been installed. I tried another 
> modem and
> > it still didn't work. If you manually install the drivers win 
> will tell you
> > that the device could not be found.  I thought that maybe the pci 
> slot had
> > gone funky but a scsi card installed in the same slot was 
> detected by win.
> > 
> > Has anyone seen behavior like this or had any experience with 
> modem problems
> > in win2k?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Mark.
> Nothing exactly like that but I did add a USB 2.0 card to system. 
> It 
> wouldn't work in the first slot I put it in but it did work in 
> another 
> slot. Have you tried a different slot for the modem? Did you try 
> add/remove hardware and explicitly try to install the card? I have 
> never 
> actually had that work but it's worth the 5 minutes it'll take to try.
> 
> glenn
> 
> 
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