What drives me nusto here is that the thing has been in place for 2-1/2
years and worked perfectly right up to the point at which I swapped the hard
disk. Then I finally installed the OS on a CLEAN partiton of 13.6 MB, using
disk manager, and it just works beautifully . . . except for the modem,
which it doesn't even see.
SInce the BIOS doesn't support plug-n-pray, there's no reset to enable or
any such.
Nevertheless, if I could lay hands on another of the 3 VLB +3 ISA + 3 PCI
motherboards like I recently had die off on me, I'd jump on the thing.
These are the 5x86-133 version of that, though most of them run fine at 160.
I've tried various speeds, but everything seems to work best at 160. I
think the bus interface between the CPU and the two busses couple better at
160 than at 133, but I can't prove it. It's just there are things that seem
to go twice as fast at 160 than at 133, and 133's plenty fast.
thanx
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: ajp166 <ajp166_at_bellatlantic.net>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 9:15 PM
Subject: Re: OT: Philips "Easy-Connect" modem
> >I found that if I shut down and _remove_ the modem and then install
> windoze 95
> >on a _clean_, freshly formatted disk and then shut down and re-install
> the
> >modem, _then_ the parts of w95 that need to will see the modem
> (remember, it's
> >a plug-n-pray modem that I have -like you'd said your friend's was). My
> m'board
> >is supposed to be "Plug-n-Play" but in this case there are probably
> subtle
> >things that made it mostly plug-n-pray for sure.
>
>
> Yes there are. To get plug and pray to reset you need to enable the reset
> in the bios.
> the next power up it will enumerate the modem.
>
> two caveats... not all winmodems (HSP) work in all systems. And if the
> BIOS
> is not P&P you may have to go into the control Pannel | system and
> actually tweek the
> driver to point at every possible address the modem can be at (less than
> a dozen).
> Usually it W95 messes up and puts the wrong stuff at the wrong IRQ and
> this is
> worse when IRQs are near all full!
>
> I know I do this EVERY day on 5x86/133 through P166 systems that are OLD.
>
> Also keep in mond that the autoprobe function of the system can and does
> fail to find stuff or if it has the worng IRQ/Address misidentifes it.
>
> >Although I have some experience with installing PNP hardware onto w95/98
> >systems, it seems to me that while installing the w95 onto a previously
> >hardware configured box, the PNP majic of the system will not correctly
> detect
> >and install the PNP hardware into the new system. Maybe this is old hat
> to some
> >of you that had come against this problem, but it's new to me as I'm not
> one to
> >buy lots of hardware stuff to play with and try out and otherwise tinker
> with
> >my machines. The machines are tools for me and I put my money resources
> into
> >s/w tools I need or my old radio collection (as Hans F. and Wm. Donzelli
> can
> >attest ;)
>
>
> It's fairly straightforward. I do this enough to be comfortable with it.
> Previously
> installed means no new disk or reinstall of the OS (unless it was to
> refresh a
> few files) as the OS stores all the setup in REGISTRY, INFs and DLLs.
>
> For those not timid at heart, the registry is very editable and can
> usually stand
> cleaning up.
>
> FYI the most common problem is that I find the P&P want to put NIC at 210
> and IRQ3 or 5 with is often already commited to COM1 and LPT2. Manual
> setting of the OS (in the system pannel) is enough to fix that.
>
> BEWARE... W95 by default installs NETBUEI as the only protocal! You
> must
> make sure that the TCP/IP protocal is installed and also the adaptor
> (networking pannel). Then go to the DUN (DIAL UP NETWORKING) and set
> up the dial out. FYI: use MSDUN13 (from the MS site.) as the OSR2 DUN
> has
> problems arounf DHCP and some other junk.
>
> I usually install W95, then setup the networking, install MSDUN13 and
> then
> follow with layered products (err uhm applications). HINT: install MS
> internet explorer
> before netscape then make netscape the default if you prefer it. Also if
> you use MS
> Internet explorer/OutlookExpress Use 4.01SP2, it has fewer of the
> active-x and COMx
> controls and can be hardened more than the IE5 versions (they are very
> virus prone).
> Last item in is a ANTIvirus with currrent signatures, I lke SYMANTEC but
> MCAfee
> seems to work as well. In any case instal and enable it.
>
> >BTW, I'm using w95 OSR-2 also. 8-24-96 is the majority of file dates on
> the
> >distribution.
>
>
> Same here. Also known as 95B or 400.950. That was the last version
> unless you
> have 95C (I do) which is the OEM disti copy.
>
> Myself I've run 95, 98 and NT4/SP4/workstation and NT beats 9x hands down
> (except for games). It will give untuned Linux (caldara openlinux2.3) a
> goor run.
> NT like Linux is intimidating for the novice to install and setup. Done
> properly
> with known good drivers they all work. Keep in mind one thing, I HATE
> Micros~1!
>
>
> Allison
>
>
Received on Tue Aug 29 2000 - 22:37:02 BST