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General Category => Hardware => Topic started by: Mordejai on June 10, 2001, 01:26:08 AM

Title: USR Winmodem and W2k
Post by: Mordejai on June 10, 2001, 01:26:08 AM

I have an USR 3com Winmodem (It\'s an OEM \"USR Faxmodem\" - no voice).
I had problems to make it detect busy. Using the USR driver in Windows 98, there was an option to change the Country. I\'ve changed it to Mexico and it worked.
But in Windows 2000 (using the w2k driver), there is no such an option. And it makes an anoying beep while it\'s waiting to connect.
Any ideas, including how to hack the driver? (I\'ve tried this, but w2k replaces it with the original)

Title: USR Winmodem and W2k
Post by: Josetann on June 10, 2001, 11:01:58 AM

Uninstall the modem in device manager.  Goto add new hardware.  Tell it you want to pick the driver yourself (don\'t let it search, that\'s the default setting).  Point it to where you put the older driver (the win98 driver may work, but I\'d try the NT4 driver instead).  This way it shouldn\'t even check its own drivers (where it\'ll find a newer one, and just assume it\'s the best one).

Title: USR Winmodem and W2k
Post by: Mordejai on June 12, 2001, 12:23:33 AM

Thanks! but it didn\'t work.
It installs an \"NT5\" driver (I had to download the .SYS file from USR), that is almost the same that comes with w2k.
I\'ll keep tying something...

Title: USR Winmodem and W2k
Post by: Mordejai on June 12, 2001, 12:42:59 PM

I finally installed the NT4 driver... only to discover it throws a beautiful bluescreen when booting.

Title: USR Winmodem and W2k
Post by: Josetann on June 12, 2001, 01:34:01 PM

Well, it was worth a try.  Sorry it didn\'t work.