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Anonymous   05-12-2004 at 07:53:19 PM

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I have two open pci slots in my computer. I need to do
some faxing, so I brought out the old internal fax modem.
However, when I put it in either of the available slots
and reboot, I get a black screen at bootup. I haven't
messed with this stuff much in a few years, but I believe
that indicates an IRQ conflict. Should I bother to try to
resolve the conflict or am I maxed out? Where to start?
Any guidance would be appreciated!

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Anonymous   05-13-2004 at 06:36:06 PM
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I could be wrong (somebody else please correct if so ) but, internal fax modems should be installed in the furthest available slot on you motherboard - something to do with IRQ setting I think.

Also, determine the manufacturer and P/N to see if you can download a manual for it (if you don't have it). First to see if it can work under XP (I realize you said it was an old one), also the manual will tell you about the jumper pin designations if there are any on the board. I think that you typically use jumper pins for assigning a specific comport address and IRQ value to the modem (which you probably don't want unless COM 1-4 is free). Removing the jumpers usually reverts the modem to plug and play and the O/S determines the addresses.

Maybe it helps - let us know.

R

P.S. I use Winfax PRo - I had to buy a controller based modem ($140.00) because the cheaper controllerless modems (anything with Soft or Winmodem in the name) don't work properly with Winfax PRo.


----- Shep wrote: -----

I have two open pci slots in my computer. I need to do
some faxing, so I brought out the old internal fax modem.
However, when I put it in either of the available slots
and reboot, I get a black screen at bootup. I haven't
messed with this stuff much in a few years, but I believe
that indicates an IRQ conflict. Should I bother to try to
resolve the conflict or am I maxed out? Where to start?
Any guidance would be appreciated!

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Anonymous   05-13-2004 at 10:06:00 PM
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"Shep" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I have two open pci slots in my computer. I need to do
> some faxing, so I brought out the old internal fax modem.
> However, when I put it in either of the available slots
> and reboot, I get a black screen at bootup. I haven't
> messed with this stuff much in a few years, but I believe
> that indicates an IRQ conflict. Should I bother to try to
> resolve the conflict or am I maxed out? Where to start?
> Any guidance would be appreciated!

One possibility is that your fax modem can't share an IRQ
with another device. Look in your mainboard manual to find
out which pci slots are assigned unique IRQ's and which
share an IRQ with other cards. Then rearrange your PCI cards
and put your fax modem in a slot that has a unique IRQ. Also,
your fax modem may require a "bus mastering" slot, but that's
probably not the problem -- I've never heard of a mainboard
that has any non bus mastering pci slots.

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