why do HSP56 modems go all flakey when upgrading ?

[Dan312]

why do HSP56 modems flake out and refuse to work again when drivers are wiped due to upgrades/re-installs ? I've wiped the hard drive due to virus... it's a used computer so no drivers.... Sound & modem don't work with any of the drivers I've supplied from the internet. OS is windows '98. I've never experienced such a stupid problem before. The modem itself seems to be added and the driver listed for it is "comm.drv' even though I loaded some cryptically named driver from the internet. What's the deal here .... Some drivers are .exe from harddrive and others you have to point to manually from "have disk". My HSP56 micro modem appears on comm4 but an error occurs when trying to initialize the modem and then the dialer crashes.

 

[garebo]

you need to tell us:

what os you are using
the make, model, and version of mobo you have
which bios you are running, or if you have recently flashed the bios
what make and model of modem you have

If you dont know what kind of mobo you have there is a site that will tell you, I or someone will give you the url.

 

[Dan312]

What is the site to identify MoBos ?

OS=win98

Mobo unknown... its got some numbers on a bar code label
otherwise its too dark to see anything.

Modem is PCtel AMR

BIOS = ????

 

[garebo]

If you have a PCtel AMR modem then you likely have a PC Chips, Amptron, or ECS mobo, they are all the same company.
They have other names too.
I think the place to get more info on the mobo is:
motherboards.org if i am not mistaken

I will get the urls for you.

 

[garebo]

heres two, i have more:

http://www.ecsusa.com/

http://www.pcchips.com/

 

[garebo]

http://www.motherboards.org/mobocop.html

this one may be the best, depends on your mobo.

http://www.pcchips.com.tw/

if you cant find it, or in the meantime, just tell us the numbers and letters stamped on your mobo or, sometimes, the info is on the back of the mobo, and more often its on the side of the last or second last pci card connector.

 

[garebo]

by the way, is there any way i can edit my post instead of making a new post?

 

[garebo]

another

http://www.amptron.com/

last but not least:

http://go.to/th2

You may very well have to take your mobo out of the case to find the maker, and you also need the version on it, like 1.4 or 2.0 or 2.1, like that. I have a mobo that is version 8.0!

They have different sites but one of those sites, they have cross-reference for same models with different numbers on them, in other words, amptron has the exact same mobo as pc chips but pc chips gives it a different name, same mobo, and all these companies all owned by pc chips too, far as i know.

 

[garebo]

http://www.ecs.com.tw/

good one too!