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I had this situation last week. Fortunately, my attempt worked on the first
try. I was impressed with the robustness of x64 at such a young age... I needed to do faxing last week, I was worried that I wouldn't be able to, at least from my x64 workstation. I went ahead and took out a Conexant Winmodem internal PCI from one of my old emachines 466 celeron. Put it into a slot on my Dell Xeon machine, powered on, and voila, it recognized and configured it with win xp x64 built in drivers. no need to go to conexant.com, and no need to find any x64 modem drivers. And this is with x64 1433. I did modem diagnostics in the modem control panel, and it responds fine. I even downloaded and installed open source pdfcreator and created a pdf and faxed it out. I'm not gloating, I'm just telling you that you have to try more than 1 type/brand of modem whenever you are using a beta, or new system setup, or new os to figure out and solve the solution you need. And I noticed you mentioned 'BRAND NEW' regarding your usr 3090 modem (formerly 3com, originally formerly USR). That actually could be your problem as well. When ms comes out with new windows versions, they try to include as many hardware drivers as they can, and often, you will find older hardware included, thus better supported than newer hardware. For example, I had clients who had newer HP laserjet models, which didn't have drivers in Win98 and we had to keep installing them right after a new Win 98 install. But then once they decided to switch to Win Me or 2000, that particular HP laserjet model, was supported with a built in driver in those newer windows versions, and we no longer had to download or look for the hp cd after doing a system upgrade/reinstall. This is just an example. You can find the same scenario going from Win2k to XP, or as we are experiencing, from XP to x64... You might want to try a 'OLD' modem, if you have one around. Geeks used to poo pooh winmodems, myself included, but with broadband, and the casual use of modems today, often, just for faxing, i dont think winmodems have the negative image they once used to... I looked at the specs of your modem, http://www.usr.com/download/datasheets/oem/3090-ds.pdf and the photo shows a proprietary usr chipset. i personally would prefer a conexant (formerly Rockwell) or pctel based 'cheapo' internal modem, being that those drivers are more ubiquitous, and probably built into newer windows builds. USR was never really my favorite, neither was Hayes, way back when (compatibility problems, always negotiating at low speeds, overly sensitive to line noise, and handshaking problems). I had realtor clients that had to flip the power switch on their USR Sportsters and Couriers every other day, in order to work, I switched them to Supra modems, and months later, when I mentioned it, they didn't even notice that the supra didn't even have a power switch on it! Even at the 56k.com web site, the troubleshooting pages, has lots of USR issues. http://www.56k.com/trouble/ You could argue that they have so many modems out there that more problems will be reported, but in my experience over the past 15 years, i would disagree. They just dont have good designs and testing between their products, and with interoperability with competing 'standardized' modems... I found that the supra (formerly S3, formerly SonicBlue, formerly diamond multimedia, formerly originally Supra) modems (rockwell chipset) worked way better (tried zoom, multitech, others, but supra was superior, ha ha). http://www.diamondmm.com/SM56PCILE.php They even had bonding solutions, so you could double up 2 modems in a machine, with 2 phone lines, and double your internet speed (this was pre-broadband days). I still have a dozen or so of them around because of that... but i better stop reminiscing...  "HAL 9000" <HAL > wrote in message news:8BB666DD-8DFD-4543-B011-... > My BRAND NEW oem usr3090 Modem wont install....tried installing a generic > 56k > modem driver to no avail. > From what Ive seen on other boards Im not alone. > > back to using win 2000 with a amd 64 3200 and a gig of ram. > Sigh... > > Thinks bill gates should spend some of his money on making a current > hardware compatabliity list for XP64... > B4 releasing it! |
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This is the appropriate newsgroup for users running beta builds Wewa:
microsoft.private.windowsserver_64bit  -- Andre Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta FAQ for MS AntiSpy http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/FAQ_MSantispy.htm "wewa" <> wrote in message news:%... >I had this situation last week. Fortunately, my attempt worked on the first > try. I was impressed with the robustness of x64 at such a young age... > > I needed to do faxing last week, I was worried that I wouldn't be able to, > at least from my x64 workstation. > > I went ahead and took out a Conexant Winmodem internal PCI from one of my > old emachines 466 celeron. Put it into a slot on my Dell Xeon machine, > powered on, and voila, it recognized and configured it with win xp x64 > built > in drivers. no need to go to conexant.com, and no need to find any x64 > modem > drivers. And this is with x64 1433. > > I did modem diagnostics in the modem control panel, and it responds fine. > I even downloaded and installed open source pdfcreator and created a pdf > and > faxed it out. > > I'm not gloating, I'm just telling you that you have to try more than 1 > type/brand of modem whenever you are using a beta, or new system setup, or > new os to figure out and solve the solution you need. And I noticed you > mentioned 'BRAND NEW' regarding your usr 3090 modem (formerly 3com, > originally formerly USR). > > That actually could be your problem as well. When ms comes out with new > windows versions, they try to include as many hardware drivers as they > can, > and often, you will find older hardware included, thus better supported > than newer > hardware. > > For example, I had clients who had newer HP laserjet models, which didn't > have drivers in Win98 and we had to keep installing them right after a new > Win 98 install. But then once they decided to switch to Win Me or 2000, > that > particular HP laserjet model, was supported with a built in driver in > those > newer windows versions, and we no longer had to download or look for the > hp > cd after doing a system upgrade/reinstall. > > This is just an example. You can find the same scenario going from Win2k > to > XP, or as we are experiencing, from XP to x64... > > You might want to try a 'OLD' modem, if you have one around. > > > Geeks used to poo pooh winmodems, myself included, but with broadband, and > the casual use of modems today, often, just for faxing, i dont think > winmodems have the negative image they once used to... > > I looked at the specs of your modem, > http://www.usr.com/download/datasheets/oem/3090-ds.pdf > and the photo shows a proprietary usr chipset. > i personally would prefer a conexant (formerly Rockwell) or pctel based > 'cheapo' internal modem, being that those drivers are more ubiquitous, and > probably built into newer > windows builds. > > USR was never really my favorite, neither was Hayes, way back when > (compatibility problems, always negotiating at low speeds, overly > sensitive > to line noise, and handshaking problems). I had realtor clients that had > to > flip the power switch on their USR Sportsters and Couriers every other > day, > in order to work, I switched them to Supra modems, and months later, when > I mentioned it, they didn't even > notice that the supra didn't even have a power switch on it! > > Even at the 56k.com web site, the troubleshooting pages, has lots of USR > issues. > http://www.56k.com/trouble/ > You could argue that they have so many modems out there that more problems > will be reported, but in my experience over the past 15 years, i would > disagree. They just dont have good designs and testing between their > products, and with interoperability with competing 'standardized' > modems... > > I found that the supra (formerly S3, formerly SonicBlue, formerly diamond > multimedia, formerly originally Supra) modems (rockwell chipset) worked > way > better (tried zoom, multitech, others, but supra was superior, ha ha). > http://www.diamondmm.com/SM56PCILE.php > > They even had bonding solutions, so you could double up 2 modems in a > machine, with 2 phone lines, and double > your internet speed (this was pre-broadband days). I still have a dozen or > so of them around because of that... > > but i better stop reminiscing... > > > > "HAL 9000" <HAL > wrote in message > news:8BB666DD-8DFD-4543-B011-... >> My BRAND NEW oem usr3090 Modem wont install....tried installing a generic >> 56k >> modem driver to no avail. >> From what Ive seen on other boards Im not alone. >> >> back to using win 2000 with a amd 64 3200 and a gig of ram. >> Sigh... >> >> Thinks bill gates should spend some of his money on making a current >> hardware compatabliity list for XP64... >> B4 releasing it! > > > |
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No, its not Andre... >
 From: "Mike Brannigan [MSFT]" Subject: Please Do Not Post Here - use microsoft.public.windows.64bit.general Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 17:38:33 +0100 Newsgroups: microsoft.private.windowsserver_64bit If you wish to post please do so to the now public group at microsoft.public.windows.64bit.general -- Regards, Mike -- Mike Brannigan [Microsoft] This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights Please note I cannot respond to e-mailed questions, please use these newsgroups "Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" <> wrote in message news:... > This is the appropriate newsgroup for users running beta builds Wewa: > microsoft.private.windowsserver_64bit |
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