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    How friggin stupid can I be!?! Need some help please

    Ok, I need to install two friggin things on my uncles computer and I will finally be done with this damn thing. A modem for use with AOL and a scsi card for his scanners. Oh, and a hd, but I can't do that until everything else works..... So, as we've all installed these things before, why the fu*k do they not want to work now!?! The modem can't seem to find drivers anywhere (except for the standard drivers which AOL doesn't recognize for some reason). The scsi card won't even find that. I also randomly started getting funky vxd errors which I will just copy from this system to the other and hope it works. Please tell me what I'm doing wrong. I haven't been home since yesterday morning, so the soon you come up with an answer, the better...

    Thanks,

    Dimitri

    P.S.: I'm doing this on a partitioned drive (C & D) as master on a K7 PRO. I don't imagine this would make any difference, but let me know.

    [This message has been edited by Muad'Dib (edited 27 April 2000).]
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  • #2
    Hmm, I had the same problem some years ago. It was an IRQ conflict with the scsi adapter and the modem Com Port. Maybe you should check that out.

    Mega
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    • #3
      yup Irq prob.. Put in the scsi card first and get it runnin right..then kill com ports in the bios ..then install modem with irq 3 com 2..if you can.. that should work...Good luck

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      • #4
        Dimitri,
        What kind of modem is it?
        Some Voice-Tele-Win-modems take up ungodly numbers of hardware resources.
        Chuck
        Chuck
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        • #5
          Ok, I'll check the IRQ's next time I go to work over there, but from what I remember, everything was looking normal and good. The modem (from what I could tell as he threw away the box and papers) is a Creative 56K v.90 (it has a REALLY long name which I don't remember but have it written down at his place).

          Thanks for your help/ideas,

          Dimitri
          "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: His eyes are closed"
          --- Albert Einstein


          "Drag racing is for people that don't know how to brake and downshift at the same time."

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          • #6
            Make sure you have updated modem drivers. If it was somewhat of an older modem...the drivers that came in the box will give you hell (happened to me. It took me a day to figure out that it was the creative modem that was screwing things up for a friends computer) Good luck!

            Green

            [This message has been edited by Green (edited 29 April 2000).]
            It's not a typo...it's probably corrupt graphics generated by your overclocked video card...

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            • #7
              Thanks guys. I got it working finally. A scsi card (2 scanners) and a another one just for a jaz drive (don't have the connectors to use one card for all 3 things). All the irq's a freed up though, so I took out the sound card. Damn! Anyway. Thanks for your help.

              Dimitri
              "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: His eyes are closed"
              --- Albert Einstein


              "Drag racing is for people that don't know how to brake and downshift at the same time."

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              • #8
                Why did you take out the sound card? You should be able to get everything working together. I have one of those Creative PCI modems and if I remember correctly (its been a while since I installed it), I had to try a couple of different PCI slots. I think I found it worked only in the slot closest to the ISA slots. Play around with different slots and see what happens. (And get some cables so you can run all the SCSI stuff on one card and don't forget to terminate both ends of the SCSI chain. )

                RAB

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