I have an internal 25mhz Courier V.Everything modem that I bought used off
eBay a couple years ago. The modem was V.90 when I got it, but I didn't
receive anything with it, just the card.

A couple days ago, it stopped working and when I sent an ATI command to
the modem, it responded with a message that the firmware was corrupt and
that I should download new firmware.

I've downloaded the V.90 firmware from the USR site, but I haven't tried
using it yet because I managed to completely screw up the Windows
installation on that system and haven't yet had the ambition to re-install
everything. Right now I'm using a new system with a piece of crap Creative
"Win" modem in it.

Anyway, while looking up this problem on the net, I came across mention of
needing an "enable key" for flashing Courier modems with V.90 firmware.

I'm wondering if I'm going to run into problems trying to re-flash the
firmware (assuming that the modem hasn't just gone bad) or will the
firmware detect that it was previously flashed to V.90 and go in without
problems? I could be wrong, but I *THINK* the last time I turned that
system on, the BIOS identified the modem as a USR Courier V.Everything 56K.

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 19:24:26 -0400, No Body <None@nowhere.nul> wrote:

you should be able to do so without problem, even if it's replacing
the same code. Of course that doesn't guarantee it will work again
after flashing it, but if I was in your situation, I would re-flash it
anyway, if I got the message you did after an ati command.

I agree it's probably a good idea to wait until you have a good
Windows install.

Gary E
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