goofy422

The more RAM the better! But 256 is enough for most games and any other programs. 512mb will be way more than enough. But if dirt cheap then go for it, 256mb more on one DIMM will set u back less than $100!!!! But i still say more the better!

ok i just bought a USR 56k modem from a local computer retailer, when i install it, it was detected find and asked for the drivers. OK so far so good, but when i popped in the disk that came with it, it did not find any drivers. ok bad, so i looked into the disk and found and zip exe, the kind that autounzip to somewhere. Ok i unzip and used the files from that to install drivers. It found drivers within those files. ok so far so good. But when i look at the modem properties it said COM5! ok COM 1 and 2 are there too. but when i try to talk to the modem for more info, i get an error and get nothing. so im wondering if i can change that COM5 to COM 3 or something. I try removeing and reinstalling, same thing. delete the inf for it and reinstalled it. no good. This is on a newly built computer, just built yesterday, by me for a friend. I built many computers with all different kinds of setup, but this USR Modem is the last thing that need to take care of and it has me stump. (building for newbie and he has no Brodband access) Here is a brief spec of this new computer. AMD 1000Mhz 266 Abit KT7-A Motherbord PC133 256mb IBM 40gig ATA100/72000rpm Sony 52x CD-ROM GeForece2 MX 64mb AGP SBlive 5.1 USR 56k v.90 non-voice modem WIN98SE Very fast computer everything works great but the USR modem. Any Ideas? Change Modems? or is there a work around? Sorry about the mess, morning post! Thanks for anything!

I got it to work, even with com5. I changed the port address for com1 and com2 to AUTO in my Abit motherboard Bios. Restarted, and reinstalled drive, and that was it. It still say COM5 but it now responds when i click more info. Try dialing up and there, that computer has internet. Still dont like that COM5, but Not Bad. Thanks for any Help, Problem Solved!

I got it to work, even with com5. I changed the port address for com1 and com2 to AUTO in my Abit motherboard Bios. Restarted, and reinstalled drive, and that was it. It still say COM5 but it now responds when i click more info. Try dialing up and there, that computer has internet. Still dont like that COM5, but Not Bad. :DThanks for any Help, Problem Solved!

Sounds good, i forgot to check the motherboards bios, thanks i'll do that, anyone else wanna try? Thanks SHS!

Oh i have internet access, see I dont know if that modem is really from USR, or it could be a modem that uses and USR (3com) chipset. I will look into, thanks for u help!

Well i have a creative labs voodoo banshee and it worked fine the first time win2000 was installed. I might not be a bad idea to reinstall windows. Only of course if it is not to out of the way. ------------------ GooFy