Modem Trouble with N2

Hi, About 2 months ago, I installed my modem on com 2. That day I check my modem to see if it worked it did. Today I tried to initialize my modem with a friend, it didn't work. I got an error message "Could not initialize modem." Whats wronge? I have a US-Robitic 33.6 Voice Modem, set on com2, irq3. The game is set with the 28.8 modem USR string with com2 irq3 (game settings). It does not work. I have a Pentuim 166, 64mb of edo ram,running under win95 version nascar2, and N2 install on full. Any clues on my problem? -- Sincerely, Mark Come and visit the page SPEED!!!!! Has great Utilities, Setups, Cars, Links, and more! Here go and check the place out at http://www.nascarnet.com/~speed/ For E-Mail info,

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> Hi, > About 2 months ago, I installed my modem on com 2. That day I check my > modem to see if it worked it did. Today I tried to initialize my modem with > a friend, it didn't work. I got an error message "Could not initialize > modem." Whats wronge? I have a US-Robitic 33.6 Voice Modem, set on com2, > irq3. The game is set with the 28.8 modem USR string with com2 irq3 (game > settings). It does not work. I have a Pentuim 166, 64mb of edo ram,running > under win95 version nascar2, and N2 install on full. Any clues on my > problem? > -- > Sincerely, > Mark > Come and visit the page SPEED!!!!! > Has great Utilities, Setups, Cars, Links, and more! > Here go and check the place out at > http://www.nascarnet.com/~speed/ > For E-Mail info,

When you started the game(this time), did you do an F8 boot-up? If your modem has the jumpers off, then plug-and play is setting the com/irq. In this case an F8 boot-up won't work. Try booting into WIN95, and then going down to DOS. If that works then thats the problem. You can resolve it permanantly by installing the jumpers. If thats not the problem, I don't have any other ideas...Sorry. I have the same modem though and it works fine. Lyman VanDerWege http://www.infi.net/~lymanv/tnms/tnms.htm

Hi all, I responded to Mark with e-mail, thought better of it and decided to post a public response in regards to the "initialize" problem when using a modem in Nascar2. I had loaded Chris Fredericks' excellent car set into my computer. The installation took my default car sets and placed them in another directory and left itself as the sole carset. Upon trying to join a race on Kali I received a "failure to initialize ipx card" error. I tried different modem strings, reinstalled Kali and Kahn and checked all of the different configurations I could think of. Then it occured to me that the last thing I had done before logging on to Kali was to load CFs' car set. I reinstalled the default carset and the problem was solved. It seems N2 has to have the "multi" set in order to play online, modem to modem or through Kali, Kahn. Fortunately, Chris' set has an easy install/ uninstall program . The fact that you a "failure to initialize" error when the problem is a missing carset is a bit misleading. But then, Papy isn't under any compunction to accomodate others' carsets, I suppose. I wonder under what other conditions one would get that message. Anyhow, If this is old news then I apologize for the wasted B/width. Hope this helps someone. Regards, Greg Gavel on Hawaii, TEN, Kali, Kahn

: : Hi, : About 2 months ago, I installed my modem on com 2. That day I check my : modem to see if it worked it did. Today I tried to initialize my modem with : a friend, it didn't work. I got an error message "Could not initialize : modem." Whats wronge? I have a US-Robitic 33.6 Voice Modem, set on com2, : irq3. The game is set with the 28.8 modem USR string with com2 irq3 (game : settings). It does not work. I have a Pentuim 166, 64mb of edo ram,running : under win95 version nascar2, and N2 install on full. Any clues on my : problem? If you have Chris Fredericks car set installed then run UNLOADCF.BAT and reset your entry list to "MULTI". That fixed my system which had the same problem.

Mark, I had this problem recently too.<g> **My** problem was that I was = using a '97 car set which moved the original cars out of the "cars" = directory, to make room for the '97 cars. Well.... the '97 car set = didn't have a "multi" car group which caused the "cannot initialize = modem" error. When I re-loaded the original cars, everything worked = fine. I don't know if this may be your situation, but I thought that it = was worth passing along... BTW, I also have a USR 33.6 modem which is = set to the same IRQ and DMA as yours. ---Paul Eigsti > Hi, > About 2 months ago, I installed my modem on com 2. That day I check = my > modem to see if it worked it did. Today I tried to initialize my modem = with > a friend, it didn't work. I got an error message "Could not initialize > modem." Whats wronge? I have a US-Robitic 33.6 Voice Modem, set on = com2, > irq3. The game is set with the 28.8 modem USR string with com2 irq3 = (game > settings). It does not work. I have a Pentuim 166, 64mb of edo = ram,running

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> under win95 version nascar2, and N2 install on full. Any clues on my > problem? > --=20 > Sincerely, > Mark >=20 > Come and visit the page SPEED!!!!! > Has great Utilities, Setups, Cars, Links, and more! > Here go and check the place out at > http://www.nascarnet.com/~speed/ >=20 > For E-Mail info,

Hey, My friend has a US robotics 33.6 modem on com 2 irq3, and he has NOT installed that other car set, and his multi.lst file is there etc., but he still can't get the modem to work. It just won't intitialize it. The modem works with our other games so.... any suggestions? thanks, brian lohiser