I purchased three winmodems for backup when I lost my modem. They are cheap winmodems, but I live in a rural area that only gets me 28K dialup connections anyhow. Two of these three had an Intel chip on them and the other had a PCTel chip. The Intel cards will not let windows load up, instead giving the error message "windows protection error" or to that effect. Cannot get into the computer until I remove this modem card. I have tried it in three computers, same results. Both cards act the same way. The PCTel loaded up okay. I only paid $5 for each card which is no big loss, but I am curious. Could it be these are defective chips or is there another explanation. (PS....no more cheap modems, I'm moving up to the $20 bracket ;-)
Using Win98, AMD cpu's, PCI modems, tried moving to different slots, reloaded windows and even reformatted and loaded windows clean, same results. Three different MB also.
rodeohog
Using Win98, AMD cpu's, PCI modems, tried moving to different slots, reloaded windows and even reformatted and loaded windows clean, same results. Three different MB also.
rodeohog