modem won't work in 98 for dual boot XP/98se

[megaquark 0]

OK. I admit it, I'm stumped. Built a new system with a Soyo K7VTA Pro, Athlon XP 1700 processor. Installed my Maxtor 80GB 7200 rpm HD, floppy, CD. CD=RW, ATI Rage Pro card (PCI) with TV tuner, using on-board audio. HAD an external ZOOM fax/modem on the system wen I built it.

 

I had Win98se on the hard drive. turned the system on, worked great. Installed the SOYO drivers, everyting fine.

 

Installed a new copy of Win XP in a dual-boot configuration. It partitioned te drive. 8GB on the 98, the rest for XP.

 

All worked well.

 

With the new system, which is great by the way, I had MUCH more room than my old Compaq 5204 (which was horrible!). So I pulled an internal modem out that I had sitting for a while and installed it into the system. It is a Lucent Technologies LT Win Modem.

 

Fired up Windows XP, and it installed fine. Works in XP. Re-booted to Win 98. Here's were things get weird.

I removed the modem from the device manager. Re-booted. It finds a PCI communications device. Tries to search for the drivers, can't find them. I tried installing the drivers directly with the drivers package I downloaded. Still can't locate a modem when I try to dial-up. As a matter of fact, COM3 doesn;t even show up which is were it is installed in XP.

 

Re-boot, again, PCI communications device. Tried te standard windows drivers, all that is there is a Lucent USB modem driver.

 

I ave tried everything I know of to get it to work and it just doesn't seem to be clicking with me. What am I missing? deleted the inf file, tried manually configuring the drivers that XP shows are being used. Copied the drivers in XP to a folder on the 98 partition and tried to manually install them in 98. No luck. I am almost scared I have missed something horribly simple. What is it?

 

Has anyone run into this type of configuration problem wit a dual boot system? I re-install the EXTERNAL and it works in both, but the Lucent INTERNAL only works in XP! Weird as it gets!!!!!

[one4nine4one 0]

Try downloading the modem chipset drivers from here. Just DL the self-extracting EXE, run it in 98, and it will ask you if you want to install the modem. If that doesn't work, then I dunno. Good luck.