Did you go to device manager and see if the modem is listed and recognized by your system? There are so many things that it could be, including a bad modem or a wrong port setting and so on. Maybe you could pick up a new one just to trouble shoot and if that one works, then take it back and donate the computer with knowledge that the modem doesn't work. Is it a stand alone modem or one of the Packard Bell jobies where it is tied to the sound card? Just trying to figure out what I might be able to suggest.
----- Original Message ----- From: Lenny McHugh To: Handyman-Blind Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 8:03 AM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] computer modem problem Hi all you computer guys, I have an interesting problem. I was given an older windows 98 machine to clean up and donate to someone or charity. Since all of the disks were there I with some help first did a fdisk to erase the hd. I then reinstalled windows 98, the mb drivers, the sound card drivers and the modem disk was missing. I tried standard 56k v90 with no success. I then pulled the modem to see who made it and no name. We then took the fcc number to locate the manufacturer. They had only two drivers one for win 98 and the other for windows me. Downloaded the 98 driver and it still does not work. Any ideas, I don't want to spend $25 for a new modem just to give it away. Lenny http://www.geocities.com/lenny_mchugh/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
