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Hi all,
Yesterday I transfered the modem from a Compaq PC to the motherboard of a
Packard Bell. I've had both these computers for a while now. The Compaq
one is the least powerful, but it has a good 56k dialup connection
(Supraexpress 56i) - whereas the PB has a useless 'generic' one. So I
decided to try and 'swap' modems... It seemed to slot in perfectly to the PB
but WinXP didn't recognize the modem. I uninstalled the old modem from
Device Manager and then tried 'installing a new modem' from the "Add
Hardware" applet in Control Panel. When I was doing this I noticed that it
was installing the modem to COM1 (It wouldn't give me any other choice) but
I know that the original modem was recognized as being COM3, (and I put the
Supraexpress in the exta same slot). So I started trying to manually change
this ... and I ended up making a real mess - adding various COMs to the
device manager etc. - in short, I am not sure what things looked like
beforehand...
Basically, I want things back the way they were! I have to retreat and just
put the old modem back, but will this be enough if I've messed up what was
in Device Manager? I need to get the Device Manager to revert to the
original proper configuration. Is System Restore worth my while? (Although
I imagine it only affects software...).
Thanks in advance,
Claudia
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´~°^§§§ Posted by Claudia §§§^°~´
Hi all,
Yesterday I transfered the modem from a Compaq PC to the motherboard of a
Packard Bell. I've had both these computers for a while now. The Compaq
one is the least powerful, but it has a good 56k dialup connection
(Supraexpress 56i) - whereas the PB has a useless 'generic' one. So I
decided to try and 'swap' modems... It seemed to slot in perfectly to the PB
but WinXP didn't recognize the modem. I uninstalled the old modem from
Device Manager and then tried 'installing a new modem' from the "Add
Hardware" applet in Control Panel. When I was doing this I noticed that it
was installing the modem to COM1 (It wouldn't give me any other choice) but
I know that the original modem was recognized as being COM3, (and I put the
Supraexpress in the exta same slot). So I started trying to manually change
this ... and I ended up making a real mess - adding various COMs to the
device manager etc. - in short, I am not sure what things looked like
beforehand...
Basically, I want things back the way they were! I have to retreat and just
put the old modem back, but will this be enough if I've messed up what was
in Device Manager? I need to get the Device Manager to revert to the
original proper configuration. Is System Restore worth my while? (Although
I imagine it only affects software...).
Thanks in advance,
Claudia
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´~°^§§§ Posted by Claudia §§§^°~´