I built a my computer in October last year and have installed the full version of XP Home OS (Service Packs inclusive). I have not used an upgrade version and until now there have been no issues with this machine.
Three days ago I fdisked my machine to remove XP Pro (no Service Packs) and installed XP Home and I bought an external modem at this time. I used to use a SwannSmart IIx 56K V.92 internal modem but now have a Netcomm 56K V.92 USB external modem. I am able to unistall the internal modem without any problem however once I remove this internal modem from the PCI slot the monitor doesn’t work until I put the modem back in the slot.
It seems to me that the internal modem has been identified as a graphics card and I am at a loss as how to fix this issue considering that located in the AGP slot on my motherboard is a Radeon 256MB graphics card.
My computer spec’s are as follows:
2.8GHz Intel Celeron Processor
Asus motherboard with 533MHz FSB
512MB SDRam
256MB Radeon Graphics card
2 x HDD (1x40GB and 1x80GB) both IDE
2 x Burners (1xCDRW and 1xDVD Dual Layer burner)
Antec system case with front and rear fans
I have checked the computer’s IRQ and BIOS configuration but nothing stands out as being wrong. No error messages are being generated and according to system information and DR Hardware 2005 v6.0 there are no conflicts to resolve.
I would really like to resolve this issue and remove the internal modem but I don’t know where to start or what to look for.
