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JNIK <Shaw57@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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> I currently have an internal HSP56 MicroModem installed, and i am finding
> that it is not really up to the job. I have an old US robotics 56k external
> modem downstairs and know this to be a far better modem and would therefore
> like to replace my existing modem with the US Robotics external modem.

> My question is, can i just uninstall the HSP56 modem
> drivers via add/remove programs and then install the
> US robotics modem and drivers, or do i have to remove
> the actual HSP56 modem along with the drivers and then
> install the US robotics modem and drivers in order for
> the replacement modem to function properly?

You can have both modems in the system at once, at least while setting
it up. Just boot with the external modem plugged into the serial port and
turned on and it should be auto detected and ask you for the install disk.

If you want to remove the HSP56 its best to physically remove
it, otherwise Win9x will keep seeing it at boot time and offering to
install it if you just remove the drivers for its, however you do that.

How best to remove it really depends on how you installed it.
If you just let Win9x install it by say showing it the drivers disk,
and didnt actually run the USR install disk, you can just delete it in
the Device Manager, turn the system off and unplug the physical modem.

If you installed it using the install disk and its got an Add/Remove
entry, just run that, turn the system off, physically remove the modem.