OT - Computer problems

[Garet]

Crap, I forgot to mention this:

Do not assume that cables are good (tight, no damage), or that vid cards are seated properly. ;-) If you have opened your case or move your computer occasionally, there is the chance that you have jiggled something loose.

There is also the chance that a mouse (or some other dastardly vermin, like a kitten) decided that your cable needed some 'modifications'. I once had a kitten that worked very hard to ensure that any phone line in the house was good and dead. The bastard. :-)

[Lemmy]

it's an internal modem
i assume it's plugged in ok, since it did work before i formatted.
i don't have any pets to chew on the cable, and the cable works, i checked that.

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Add new hardware, and pick a generic driver for the modem. Don't let Win pick it; you have to manually specify the driver. Try different ones...

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i did choose it manually, and i know what modem needs to be installed, remember it worked before.

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Also, check to be sure that Win selected the appropriate com port for the modem (Start->Control Panels->Modems; select modem, click 'properties'; check the com port).

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i get a message here, i can't remember what it exactly said but it was something like "Port is already open"

i'm going to remove the modem from my computer and try installing it all over again, maybe it got loose or something.

[Lemmy]

guess where i'm sitting right now...that's right, behind my own copmuter with a WORKING modem
i removed the modem, started windows, shutdown my computer, installed the modem again, started windows again, and it pretty much installed itself.