XP modem com3 not recognized by old dial up

[John_Wayne]

Hi there, I'm trying to use an older dial up software (which works fine on win98) on a new XP machine but it could not find the com3 port where the PCI modem is. Any help would be much appreciated. BTW Happy Holidays.

 

[rubikian]

Is your modem driver installed? You might need to get the xp driver for your modem if winxp doesn't have the driver for your modem. I believe that you can use winxp dial-up connection to do the dial up instead of using the old software.

 

[John_Wayne]

the modem on the XP machine is installed with the right driver and is running fine with other dial up software. My problem is I'm trying to keep running a proprietary piece of dial-up software which is not easily replaceable. Are com ports handled a little differently in XP, so that they are invisible to win95/98 software?