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by nomorepapers

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I dug up an old dinasaur (compaq deskpro 2000) that had nothing but a mother board and a case. I slapped it back together with extra parts I had kicking around (10 gig hard drive, cdrom and floppy drive), loaded windows 98se and it booted up no problem. It recognized the graphics card and monitor. It didn't recognize the first modem, but recognized the second (creative modem blaster di3635). I downloaded the drivers and burned it on a cd. When I put the cd in the compaq, it states that it does not contain software for this device. Any hints would be appreciated.

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by csmith

Copy the files from the CD to the TEMP directory or TMP directory, depending on which one you use.
If this does not work, check the MODEM ID.
Regards, Chris

by ann777

What exactly did you download?

You may have to "unzip" or extract the file(s) downloaded. If it is an .exe file, you may need to run the executable and then burn the resulting files onto a cd.

I am assuming that you've tested other files from CDR and you know that your old cd-rom drive does indeed read from CDR? Some of the oldest drive out there, are before the "writeab;e" era and they may not understand or recognize CDR nor CDRW.

by rcom

As mentioned you probably need to run the zip or executable file on the CD. If not see what file the modem is looking for and then go do a search of the cd to find it. There may be multiple folders on the driver like 95,98,NT,2000 etc. So just by having the cd in the drive and pointing to it the files may not be found unless you point to the correct local.

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