I am thinking that if I just had all the cards I have installed at
initial install - probably XP could figure out what was wrong and assign
a correct IRQ. I like XP - but when handling modems - it is really not
much better than NT4 (though it tries - I could go on how much better it
is - but XP is not 95/98/ME when it comes to modems)

My previous modem died - a PCTel HSP 56k Voice/Fax/Modem that only cost
$19 new - but lasted about 5 years. I found a discarded computer that
had a modem in it - a USR 56k Win Fax Modem. Windows XP picked up the
modem perfectly, but killed my TV-Card. The other Card I have is an ATI
9250 PCI .

I know it is an IRQ sharing issue - but in XP I cannot figure out how to
tell the OS - do not share. In 95/98 you could manually assign
resources, but in XP - I do not know how. The TV-card does not show up
as an IRQ conflict - just one-half of the total TV-card shws up at all -
the audio portion is totally zonked by the USR modem.

I guess I can just put all the cards in and let XP assign resources on
setup - but it seems I should be able to do so myself - even if a longer
learning curve.

Any thoughts?


thanks

I will answer any and all questions need to help most thoughtfully and
thankfully.

"link-pan" <link-pan@panolink.com> wrote in
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btw - I use the modem for faxing, and caller ID - no longer communication
to the Net (DSL now), or even the old BBS's - but I would like to solve
this so I can send and receive faxes and as long as the TV-Card killed,
the TV-Card has a higher priority to me than a modem does, as video more
important work product now - but modem still very useful. I could obtain
a 56k external modem - I cannot find the PCTel modems anyplace local, or
I would just go get another as cheap as they are.

Plus of course it is a puzzle why it does not work - and I would like to
unravel it just for the sake of learning if folks could talk a bit.

thanks.

thx

On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 00:35:03 GMT, "link-pan" <link-pan@panolink.com>
wrote:

them. A winmodem can cause problem with resources without the right
drivers. If there are no XP drivers, try Win2k and then NT.

You may have to try the cards in different PCI slots to get XP to
properly assign resources.

Manual assignment of resources should be your last resort, and I don't
recommend it in XP for these sorts of cards.

If you're only going to use it for faxing, then consider getting a
cheap used external serial modem if you can't make the winmodem work.
Even a 14.4 or 28.8 external would be fine.

Gary E
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Thanks for the info. After I wrote this it dawned on me that it was an
IRQ steering problem - so I turned off ACPI by going into the Computer
section of Hardware Manager and selecting Standard PC - this caused XP to
recognize all peripherals as new and assign a new IRQ and memory useage
to each.

again thanks