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- From: stevec@rain.org (Steve Childress)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Rockwell PnP big flap ...
- Date: Thu, 04 Jan 96 03:51:22 GMT
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- Earlier I posted for help on Zoom's ComStar in a new Pentium machine. Finally got
- response from Zoom. Before I go out and repurchase a ComStar (I returned the one I bought
- as it was unusable), has anyone else been-there-done-that, re the procedure below?
- --- And wouldn't it be easier to temporarily install the PnP modem in an ISA bus
- machine and run the COM port assign utility by hand, the reinstall as non-PnP
- on the PCI bus machine?
- --- And gosh, step 3 sounds kinda scary, and may affect rebooting?
- stevec@rain.org
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- 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
-