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I have a windows 95 system, and was using a U.S. Robotics 33 external modem.
It started working spiratically. I received a U.S. Robotics 56k external
modem as a gift. It was new. I hooked it up, and now my machine will not
boot up unless the modem is turned off, or the serial cable is unplugged.
The control panel identifiles com 2, . If I boot up, and then connect it,
and try to add it to the system, the system locks up. On boot up, the system
gets all the way to "starting windows 95" , access the cd rom drive light
briefly, then the modem trsl ight, then locks up. Microsoft says it is a
hardward problem, and U.S. Robotics took the modem in for service, and
returned it, saying nothing was wrong with it. I have replaced the cable,
with no effect. I can boot up in safe mode o.k.. Is there something that
could help me besides taking the machine into a shop? thanks for your
consideration.
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Well, it's an external modem. So, it will probably run
under Linux. Of course the machine might have problems
running Linux --- so you might want to replace that and your
OS. I'd start by just replacing MS Windows '9x with
Linux or <A HREF="http://www.freebsd.org/">FreeBSD</A>. See if that works.
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read some of the back issues, or the FAQ, to understand why
my answer is so obtuse. More importantly you might want to
actually READ some of the web pages that come up when you're
desperately searching for support that your software vendor
clearly is not providing. If you'd READ any of the links
from which you found my e-mail address then you might have
seen that I don't DO Windows. Most importantly you if you
READ before you e-mail question you won't sent "off-topic"
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