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  • SiS735 board and PCI Softmodem

    hi folks,

    i am asking on behalf of a friend, who has a particular problem: he upgraded his system from a FIC 502+ board with VIA MPV3 chipset to the Elitegroup K7S5A with SiS735 chipset (and from a K6/2 to an Athlon XP...). He also upgraded from a Matrox Millenium to an Ati Radeon 7200 on my recommendation. Flame me, but he wanted to PLAY 3D games, imagine that ;-)

    Anyway, he also has an PCI Softmodem with some kind of ES chipset. This modem runs perfectly in the K6 box but the Athlon box simply refuses to even POST when the modem is put into it. The problem remains, if all cards are removed and it doesn't matter what graphics card is in the system.

    So, now our problem: what is going wrong? Has anybody of you ever encountered something similiar or even the same prob?

    Thank you in advance

  • #2
    If he had a real modem it wouldn't be a problem... imagine that!
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    • #3
      Q. How fast does a softmodem go?

      A. As fast as you can trow it!
      If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

      Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."

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      • #4
        Yes, yes, i know. Anything helpfull?

        Regards

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        • #5
          I'd trow it!
          "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." -- Dr. Seuss

          "Always do good. It will gratify some and astonish the rest." ~Mark Twain

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          • #6
            Seriously:

            If you haven't totaly screwed up his bios settings you'l have to tell your friend to go out and get himself REAL modem since the SIS board probably chokes on the half fried winmodem!

            Fried internal modems often causes this phenomen!
            If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

            Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."

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            • #7
              If you must have a softmodem get a Lucent or Conexant based one. If Conexant get the one made by CNET. I hate softmodems but I have a CNET Conexant (formerly Rockwell) chipset (5614RV) and occasionally connect at 52000 and 53333 but mainly at 50667. Softmodems are cheap but if you can get a 3Com USR 2977 PCI hardware modem
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              • #8
                Ok, ok, i get it... Problem is, he's waiting for his ADSL connection, which should be there any moment (which translates into Feb or March - don't ask where he is living, just one word: backwater) and he is not willing to spend more money on "obsolete" tech, because he already has to buy an ADSL modem.

                Ah, whatever. I will tell him that and connect an old 28.8 modem from E-Tech.

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                • #9
                  I can buy a Lucent winmodem out here for j$690=US$14.50. I'm sure they're just as cheap in Germany. I can afford one and my finances are fubar until February, so go get a good cheap one. 28.8 ack vomit puke yuk barf
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                  Ryzen: Asrock B450M Pro4, Ryzen 5 2600, 16GB G-Skill Ripjaws V Series DDR4 PC4-25600 RAM, 1TB Seagate SATA HD, 256GB myDigital PCIEx4 M.2 SSD, Samsung LI24T350FHNXZA 24" HDMI LED monitor, Klipsch Promedia 4.2 400, Win11
                  Home: M1 Mac Mini 8GB 256GB
                  Surgery: HP Stream 200-010 Mini Desktop,Intel Celeron 2957U Processor, 6 GB RAM, ADATA 128 GB SSD, Win 10 home ver 22H2
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                  • #10
                    Agreed Dentycracker. I'll see what can be done... Thanks all.

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