I have a good working Windows XP Pro machine running 1 GHz with 384 RAM, 80 GIG Hard drive, and a 56K DLink PCI Internal Modem (Rockwell-Conexant) dedicated for a dialup internet connection that works fine.
I need to install a secondary modem for voice/fax functionality but I have encountered some problems.
First, after installing AZTECH 56 PCI Internal modem (MSP-3880SP-U), a Rockwell 98 chip, it installed as Generic Soft56k modem. I tried checking if it works by device manager’s diagnostics it says it has a problem. Obviously I won’t be able to use this simultaneously as I intended to. The system suddenly rebooted and scandisks, not once but a lot of times…only then I realized that it got a hardware conflict, after trying to install new drivers for it with no avail. It showed that it uses the same IRQs (irq 9) with other stuffs – about 6 of them. Tried assigning DLink’s IRQ to a new one in the BIOS but XP won’t allow – still the same IRQ. Finally uninstalled AZTECH modem as XP continues to be unstable.
HOW CAN I INSTALL A SECONDARY (almost similar rockwell) PCI FAX/Modem WITHOUT CONFLICTING EACH OTHER AND WORKING FINE IN XP, WITHOUT BUYING A NEW MODEM? Is this possible?