Modem Not Functioning

[Wizened Sage]

Hi everyone.
I have a strange problem with a modme which refuses to autodetect or seemingly function at all. I do not know the make of the modem (the PC is a friends who does not remember!), only that has a Conexant HCF chipset. It is a PCI card. Windows 95 refueses to autodetect it. I installed the generic driver from Conexant but the modem will not dial (and Modem Properties in Control Panel cannot communicate with it.)
I have tried:-

- another PCI slot - no change
- another computer - autodetects and installs fine under win 98SE
- resource conflicts - none apparent

The PC specs are

Mayfair Business Systems (! - local company)
Pentium 133
Unknown motherboard
32MB RAM
Win 95 - first release


Any suggestions would be appreciated!

[ski]

Start in Safe mode, open Device Manager, remove all modems from the list, restart in Normal mode, Windows should recognize the modem, install the driver.
If that does not work, open Dev. Mgr. and see if the modem is sharing its IRQ with another component. If so, manually assign an unused IRQ to either the modem or the other component. If there are no available unused IRQ's and the computer has 1 or 2 unused serial ports, then disable it(them) in BIOS and see if IRQ 3 or 4 gets assigned to the modem.

[classicsoftware]

The system may not meet the specs of the modem.. Pull the card and try to determine the model and then search the web. Or since modems are so cheap, buy a new one that will work on the system you have...