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If you have a Plug and Play modem
or Winmodem, it is recommended that you contact your modem manufacturer
to ensure that you have the latest drivers installed.
To Install a new driver
1. Double-click the [My Computer] icon
2. Double-click
the [Control Panel] icon
3. Double-click the
[Modem] icon
4. Select the [Diagnostics] tab
and write down the "COM
port" for which
your modem is currently configured, you will use this later.
5. Select the [General]
tab
6. Click [Add]
7. Select "Don't
Detect My Modem..."
8. Click [Next]
9. Choose "Standard Modem Type" from the modem menu list on the left
10. Choose the "Standard Modem Driver" for the appropriate speed of your modem
- Note: If you have an X2 modem, choose
the standard 28800 bps modem
- Note: If you have the Driver on a floppy click
"Have Disk"
11. Click [Next]
12. Select
the modem's COM port you recorded earlier
13. Click
[Next]
- Note: If your modem port is unavailable,
select [Cancel] and test the modem to ensure it is
functioning with the system. If the modem is functioning
properly you may need to configure a port before installing
the Standard Modem Driver. Do
not install a modem driver to an unsupported port.
14. Click [Finish]
15. Configure the modem to work with the igy Internet
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Sample of Updating the Modem Drivers by: Mr Echevarria
(If you use Windows 95 OSR2 or
Windows 98, go directly to Step 4.)
- Download the UniModem (a.k.a. voice modem) drivers from Microsoft and extract
to a temporary directory.
- Open Windows Explorer and
select the directory where you extracted the UniModem files.
- Right click the UNIMODV.INF
file and select Install.
- Download the latest INF file(s)
for your modem from its manufacturer and extract to a temporary
directory.
- Select the 'System' control
panel.
- Select the 'Device Manager'
tab.
- Select the 'Modem' option.
- Select the modem you wish
to update and click on the 'Properties' option.
(Steps 9 - 12 are based on
Windows 95 OSR2, the steps may vary on earlier or later versions
of Windows.)
- Under the 'Driver' tab, select
the 'Update Driver' option. This will activate OSR2's 'Update
Device Driver Wizard', let it search for an updated driver automatically,
if it finds it by itself, go to Step 12.
- Select the 'Other Locations'
option.
- Select 'Browse' to locate
the temporary directory where you extracted the manufacturer's
files then click 'Ok'.
- Select 'Finish' to allow the
Update Device Driver Wizard to update your modem driver with
the newest version, if it isn't already installed.
- Select 'Close' to exit out
of the modem properties.
- Select 'Close' to exit out
of Device Manager.
(Step 15 is optional and requires
access to Windows 98. If you do not have the legal right to
use Windows 98 or its components, go to Step 16. Also, Step
15 does not apply to Windows 98 itself, go to Step 16 instead.)
- If you use 16bit
Windows applications under Windows 95 and have access to Windows
98, replace version 4.00.950 of the communications driver (COMM.DRV
in your C:\Windows\System directory) with the newer version
(4.10.1998) included with Windows 98. You may have to 'Restart
the computer in MS-DOS mode' from the 'Shut Down' menu in order
to copy over your current version of the communications driver.
If you strictly use 32bit Windows applications, this step will not help
you; 32bit Windows applications use VCOMM.VXD (as a component
of VMM32.VXD) as their communications driver.
- 'Restart the computer' from
the 'Shut Down' option on the 'Start' menu.
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