emachine laptop com port

[helosparky]

Hi all,
I picked up an emachine m5305 laptop (cheap btw) that the previous owner did a system restore on and now the modem wont work.... everything else works... have reinstalled the drivers for it and it puts it on com 3 but cant open the port when the diagnostic is run. In the device manager there are no com ports listed, only a lpt port. Ive tried to install a com port and it installs one at com 4 but says it cant start it so it doesnt work. any idea's?

thanks

[Bogus Bob]

... but it's now January, 2008 ...

Wow! ... I guess you and I are the only two people in the world that have ever had this problem ..

... either that or this forum is worthless ...

... hmmm, I wonder which ...

[paul9]

Are your comports enabled or disabled in the bios, Bob? I would usually disable them, boot to windows, remove the modem drivers, reboot, then re-install the drivers. The assignment of comports to a winmodem (software modem) can be a pain, as you are finding out.