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by ahowley

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I have a Dell laptop. In device manager and in dial up settings the modem says: 3Com v.90 PCI Modem #2. I have no idea on how this #2 got here. I uninstalled the modem and reinstalled, same thing happen. Changed a the text in the registry that pertains to this modem, still no luck. Anyone have any ideas how to fix this problem?

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by thechas

I know this kind of thing can be annoying, but if it ain't broke, why fix it.

This usually happens when you move the modem to a different slot, install a new modem, or update a modem driver.

The best way to prevent it is to always uninstall the old modem before adding a new modem, or updating the driver.

Instead of device manager, look in Control panel/modems, there may be 2 modems listed. If you remove both, and then boot, your modem should re-install and not have any number after it.

If there are not 2 modems in the modem panel, I suspect, that if you look closely, you will find 2 listings for modems in the registry.
The only way to eliminate the Modem#2, is to remove all modems from the registry, and then install your modem.

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