At 11:33 PM 1/10/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Pippi wrote:
>
>Have you tried taking the COM board out and making sure the modem works by
>itself? If not, you're wasting a LOT of time. Of course, navigating through
>Windows without a mouse can be a bit fun, but it can be done.
It also runs the drives, hard disk and floppy. Really hard to navigate
about without software...
>Now I vaguely recall that you also have a Win9x machine. If not, skip the
>rest of this message!
>
>Presumably the Win9x box is a bit more modern and understood than the old
>box. If so, use it to help out. Stick the damned modem in and have Win9x
>detect it to see how it's set.
Oh, bother. First, the switches on the modem are clearly marked
second, there are no free isa slots in the w95 machine
Then, that's the bloody machine that I never figured out how to install the
EXTERNAL modem on for my own use. The com ports on that phucking thing are
completely fuxored!
>jumpers on the modem ONLY since most can be set to a benign COM5,6 or
>something like that.
No, both modems only allow default settings for coms 1-4
>Burn some incense, repeat to yourself "I AM A+ certified and dammit I'm good
>enough, and I am smarter than this pile of hardware" then just go do it.
>It'll take less than an hour, or your money back.
burning the incense is a damned a good idea, I've been feeling somewhat
cursed of late :-) I'm not only A+ certified but a Witch too. you'd think
I'd be able to magic this fixed!! heheh, thanks for the reminder of
humour. I needed that.
I'm going to try one more time to see if anyone on the web has posted a
how-to for setting those i/o card jumpers as I've noticed them on two other
i/o cards, exactly the same setup. Maybe someone out there knows the
secret code?
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