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Had a hell of a time installing an ISA modem for my neighbor across the street. Her win2k original install (no service packs), was taking a dump. Her 10 year old 2 gig HD was making clanking noises, and the diagnostic tool also confirmed that the drive was dying. The other drive was a 40 gig Maxtor drive that checked out ok.

So I format the 40 gig and remove the old 2 gig drive from the system. Got XP installed, but I could not get her ISA modem to install. I found one Google search that said ISA modems are not supported in XP. Is this true? She also has a Sound Blaster 16 ISA card that works just fine in XP.

Digging through all my old junk, I found another ISA modem that had PNP as an option. I put that one in and installed the drives so it seems to work OK.

Just curious as to the statement that xp does not work with ISA cards, or do they cards need to be PNP?

XP Does not guarantee support with legacy hardware...

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I doubt anyone has an XP driver for an ISA modem.

Fot the love of all that is good, tell her to spend $50 on a new sound card/modem.

Originally posted by FlyingPenguin
I doubt anyone has an XP driver for an ISA modem.

The one that I installed did. It's a Dynalink modem, and I found the xp drivers for it.

I'm also trying to do this with little cost to them, and I can finally get rid of some of my old ISA crap that I have laying around the house. So far, it's only been my labor. The mobo is an Asus with 3 ISA slots, and I have all 3 filled with:
56k modem
Sound Blaster 16
3COM Etherlink III
All 3 of these ISA cards are PNP.