I have a very annoying problem cropping up in an old computer I'm trying to resurrect. It is an old Pentium 166 MMX with Win 95. Every time I boot the computer, it stops with the message Conflict I/O port 2F8. I entered BIOS, disabled the port, and next time got Conflict I/O port 3E8. So I put both ports on "Autodetect" in my BIOS, everything appears to boot fine. Then, when I got into Windows, the modem (a USR Sportster 28.8) appeared to be fine, but won't dial. Claims there is no dial tone, although I have put several different active phone lines in the jack. Tried everything. Reinstalled it, nothing. Installed 3 other modems (2 PCI and another ISA), and could not get the PCI ones to work..the ISA modem (a USR Sportster 33.6) did the exact same thing as the other. It appears to work fine, shows up in Device Manager just fine, and receives AT commands. But when I try to dial out with it, it makes the "click" sound just before it dials, but gets no dial tone every single time. I even tried forcing it to dial without the tone and it still won't connect or do anything.
Is this a port conflict? I've tried moving the modems between COM 1 and COM 2..with no luck..I've tried disabling one or both ports..I've even tried removing other cards (like the Soundblaster 16 card) from the computer to see if that would help..but still, nothing. I've been working on this for about 10 hours now and would appreciate any advice I can get!
Thanks.
Is this a port conflict? I've tried moving the modems between COM 1 and COM 2..with no luck..I've tried disabling one or both ports..I've even tried removing other cards (like the Soundblaster 16 card) from the computer to see if that would help..but still, nothing. I've been working on this for about 10 hours now and would appreciate any advice I can get!
Thanks.