Install Modem on Old Compaq Desktop

[lycurgus]

Hi All,

I know this machine is really old, but I've got this Compaq Deskpro 2000 (200MHz Pentium MMX, the 'footprint' version, not tower - integrated Via m/b), running Windows 95A. I've salvaged an ISA 56K modem from another machine, US Robotics Sportster model 0460. The modem has some jumpers on the top, 3 pairs of pins related to some sort of 'setting' and then another set that appears to be related to IRQ (at least that's how it's labelled). Anyway the PC has several PCI and ISA slots on a riser card. I've installed an old ISA SoundBlaster sound card that wasn't originally equipment. However, I can't seem to install the modem. When I physically install it, it's not recognized as new hardware. Any help you could offer would be very much appreciated.

 

[SpeedFreak03]

You have to go into Add Hardware Wizard in Control panel, and follow that wizard. You should really upgrade to Win98SE. If there are conflicts, then change the jumpers accordingly.

 

[lycurgus]

Thanks for your reply. I have tried the 'wizard' approach, but the system doesn't recognize that the hardware has been installed. I don't have any documentation on the modem itself, and I don't know what the appropriate setting for the jumpers is (I suppose I could guess regarding the IRQ jumpers). The other wrinkle is that Compaq has that weird custom system utility software running.

 

[Gunbuster]

Did you use kung fu?

Sometimes you need to "drop the hammer" on the riser assembly to seat in in the slot

 

[lycurgus]

lol Yes, I'm sure the riser card is in because the sound card is working fine.

 

[Ionizer86]

How many ISA slots? Maybe you can switch slots and that kind of stuff.

BTW, 98SE will make the PC run like a crawl. If you want a new OS, check out http://www.litepc.com/, which lets you run 98/SE without the speed-like-molasses shell. I think it's like only $25.

 

[lycurgus]

As it turns out I just had to configure the jumpers on the modem itself to 'PnP', and Windows 95 autodetected it right away. Now I just have to configure it so that it runs faster (doesn't seem much better than the 33.6 external modem it replaced - any suggestions?). Thanks all for your replies.