chunkstyle
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hi
i'm planning to upgrade my problematic hcf winmodem to a used us robotics 3cp5610a hardware modem. the modem doesn't include the installation disk, and i went to usr's website to download the installer, but the site only showed installers for win 95/98 & 2000, and for win nt. will either of these work with win xp, or does xp already include the drivers for this modem? if so, will it autodetect the new modem & run the setup application on its own?
also -- i'd posted a (probably dumb) question about being unable to uninstall the old modem thru the device manager. a guy replied & said to just take the card out of the case. so here's another dumb novice question: do the drivers for any given modem only load when the pc fires up & recognizes the presence of the modem card?
in other words, if my old modem is physically removed, do its drivers then never load again, effectively leaving me with a clean slate for installing the new modem? sorry if this is a really dumb, basic question -- i'm just trying to understand how this works a little better. and i'd like to avoid having remnants of the old modem's drivers left over.
thank you!
i'm planning to upgrade my problematic hcf winmodem to a used us robotics 3cp5610a hardware modem. the modem doesn't include the installation disk, and i went to usr's website to download the installer, but the site only showed installers for win 95/98 & 2000, and for win nt. will either of these work with win xp, or does xp already include the drivers for this modem? if so, will it autodetect the new modem & run the setup application on its own?
also -- i'd posted a (probably dumb) question about being unable to uninstall the old modem thru the device manager. a guy replied & said to just take the card out of the case. so here's another dumb novice question: do the drivers for any given modem only load when the pc fires up & recognizes the presence of the modem card?
in other words, if my old modem is physically removed, do its drivers then never load again, effectively leaving me with a clean slate for installing the new modem? sorry if this is a really dumb, basic question -- i'm just trying to understand how this works a little better. and i'd like to avoid having remnants of the old modem's drivers left over.
thank you!