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USR modem wierdness was re: modem prob

2 posts by 2 people · 15 Jul 1997 - 17 Jul 1997

Matt Howel 15 Jul 1997#373304
Quoted text (10 lines)> I have a problem playing modem games in all of the dos games. I can > play in win 95 with nfs2 but gp2 icr2 nascar2 and icr1 won't work. > Before I got my new computer theey did, but that was win 3.1. I have a > usr 33.6 on com2 and I restart the computer in dos mode to play games. > I tried a boot disk but I couldn't get my cd-rom or sound to work. > -- > Thank you > Marc Johnson
Marc, My USR sportster 33.6 internal would not work with NASCAR 2 in DOS 6.22 or Win95 on my old Biostar MB-8500 TEC motherboard. Nascar 1 and Indycar 2 would work on that setup. Now with my new Abit AX-5 motherboard, suddenly everything works, including NASCAR 2 in DOS 6.22 and Win95. Go figure. I never changed a thing, the modem was always at com-2, IRQ-3, O3f8. I suspect it has something to do with a differnce in the bios and plug-n-play, but both motherboards are supposedly plug-n-play 1.0a compliant. Once again, go figure. I'm just glad it works now. Sorry to be of no help to your problem. Anyone have any ideas, I'm curious if anyone knows why this happens?
Sean Doan 17 Jul 1997#373417
Quoted text (23 lines)> > I have a problem playing modem games in all of the dos games. I can > > play in win 95 with nfs2 but gp2 icr2 nascar2 and icr1 won't work. > > Before I got my new computer theey did, but that was win 3.1. I have a > > usr 33.6 on com2 and I restart the computer in dos mode to play games. > > I tried a boot disk but I couldn't get my cd-rom or sound to work. > > -- > > Thank you > > Marc Johnson > Marc, > My USR sportster 33.6 internal would not work with NASCAR 2 in DOS 6.22 > or Win95 on my old Biostar MB-8500 TEC motherboard. Nascar 1 and Indycar > 2 would work on that setup. Now with my new Abit AX-5 motherboard, > suddenly everything works, including NASCAR 2 in DOS 6.22 and Win95. Go > figure. I never changed a thing, the modem was always at com-2, IRQ-3, > O3f8. I suspect it has something to do with a differnce in the bios and > plug-n-play, but both motherboards are supposedly plug-n-play 1.0a > compliant. Once again, go figure. I'm just glad it works now. Sorry to > be of no help to your problem. Anyone have any ideas, I'm curious if > anyone knows why this happens?
It's possible that your modem isn't DOS compatible. I recently found this to be true with my Sony 200mmx/33.6 DVSD modem. Sony says the modems in their computers are primarily designed to work in Win95 only. The remedy was to add a second modem (DOS friendly) to the computer. Everything now works fine. Sean

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