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"Rod Speed" <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:3ba0236d$1@news.iprimus.com.au, on 12 Sep 2001: 

> 
> JNIK <Shaw57@btinternet.com> wrote in message
> news:9noe8j$da4$1@neptunium.btinternet.com...
> 
>> 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. 
> 
> 
> 

You could always leave it installed, and go to Device Manager and 
"Disable this Device"

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