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- From: tokyo@u.washington.edu (J. Tseng)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.comm
- Subject: [Problems]Re: Zoom Info 1/24 - zoom [01/01]
- Date: 28 Jan 1996 04:29:08 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
- Message-ID: <4eeu2k$1bq@nntp5.u.washington.edu>
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- Keywords: Zoom ComStar 28.8
-
- This ComStar installation advice given by Zoom technical
- support is not working on my pentium.
-
- It was rather a disaster and dismay to see the process
- failure.
-
- Windows 95 still does not assign a com port to the modem
- and detected "Unknown Device" every time I log into
- Windows 95.
-
- /sebastian (frustrated and ready to give up)
-
-
- >VII. COMSTAR installation information
- > ***IMPORTANT COMSTAR INFORMATION FOR COMPUTERS WITH PCI BUS*****
- >
- >Below is an important message from Zoom tech support forwarded by
- >Steve Childress. Any modem with the same Rockwell chipset will probably
- >have this problem.
- >
- >From: ZoomRep3@aol.com[SMTP:ZoomRep3@aol.com]
- >Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 1996 2:05 PM
- >To: stevec@rain.org
- >Subject: Re: PnP failure
- >
- >Steve,
- >The "floppy drive controller error" problem you are having is due to a
- >conflict due to the PCI BUS, Floppy controller starting address and the PnP
- >modem starting address. About 30% of the P5 systems have the same type
- >controller that you do and exhibit this problem in one of several ways.
- >Rockwell Int'l (the makers of the modem chipsets) is currently working on a
- >workaround for this.
- >
- >In your Computers BIOS settings, try changing the PnP BUS type to ISA instead
- >of PCI.
- >In Windows 95,
- >1. Remove all Comports but Com1 in the Device Manager.
- >2. Remove any modems (none but the Comstar should be in the computer at this
- >point) from the Device Manager.
- >3. Remove the PCI BUS from the System Devices portion of Device Manager.
- >4. Restart the Computer and allow Windows95 (if you get this far) to install
- >all new Hardware.
- >
- >Please let me know how you fare.
- >Regards,
- >Chris, Zoom Tech
-
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