Elbert,
I tried to install a PCI MODEM in a PC running XP just a few days ago and run into
similar problems. In fact, the machine blue screened on me several times (something
that B Gates PROMISED that we never see again on Win 98 and up). It would give a blue
screen with about 1/2 page of white text for less than 1 second and then crash
completely. I was never able to read any of what it said. Afterward I would find MANY
cross-linked and corrupted files. Most of them seemed to be related to the MODEM
driver. Other times it would partially complete the installation and then quit and
tell me that it couldn't finish but never gave a reason. I spent all afternoon trying
to install the MODEM and finally gave up and gave the machine back to it's owner and
told him that I couldn't help him.
In my opinion, XP is the biggest piece of trash yet from MicroSlouth!
Joe
At 03:58 AM 1/29/03 -0800, you wrote:
>Hello Uwe,
>
>> I'm almost certain that you did it, but did you follow the
>> manufacturer's guidelines during the installation? Installing
>> hardware under XP often is not straight forward and might
>> significantly differ from the procedures for Win98 or even Win2k.
>
>If there was a page about XP, I read it, but most of the time there was very
>little text saying "Windows XP will automatically detect bla bla bla....
>then put the CD in your drive bla, bla, bla...."
>
>> The first golden rule in my experience is to let WinXP detect
>> the new hardware and then just point it to the drivers. On
>> the other hand I have also seen hardware were you needed to
>> install the driver first, before you even were supposed to
>> have the hardware in the vicinity of the computer.
>
>I followed the golden rule, but after copying the drivers to the harddisk,
>all installations ended up with an incomplete message. I did not try
>
>Kind regards,
>
>Elbert Smit
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