Author Topic: Win 98se/XP dual boot, modem won\'t work in 98  (Read 1056 times)

megaquark

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Win 98se/XP dual boot, modem won\'t work in 98
« on: August 04, 2002, 04:41:53 PM »
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!!!!!

Anonymous

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Win 98se/XP dual boot, modem won\'t work in 98
« Reply #1 on: September 06, 2002, 05:48:35 PM »
Hi,
Your problem is that you have installed two versions of windows in the same drive.

We have two types of installation: 1) upgrade, and 2) new install

1) in the upgrade, you dont lose anything but you can only access to the newer version, but not the earlier.

2) in the new installation, you dont have such a problem, but if you install both of two versions in the same driv, you will have problems with your modem (of course only the last version)

If it\'s your problem, please mail me. I\'ll try to solve your problem