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I have an older emachine that I am refurbishing for a friend. It is an etower 533i which came with Windows 98 installed. I have upgraded the memory and it works great. I installed Windows 2000 Professional (clean install) and finally got all updated drivers installed so that all hardware works perfectly with the exception of the modem. No matter which driver I install, nothing happens. I have installed the one that emachine provides and I have also installed what is supposed to work according to all the driver sites I've found and nothing works. I understand the modem is a Conexant Soft 56K PCI Modem. Can anyone help with this problem ??

According to the Emachine web site the etower 533i system has the below modem:
56K* ITU V.90 PCI Fax/Modem it uses the Conexant Modem Chipsets but we don’t know the manufacturer

Please download
Just download the EVEREST Ultimate Edition you won’t need to buy it.
It should tell you everything you need to know about you motherboard and you modem.

Thanks Gecko - I was aware of what emachine states is in it and I have downloaded Belarc Advisor which also shows you everything in the system, unfortunately the system does not recognize the modem at all, therefore it shows "no modem installed". The new hardware device keeps telling me that there are no drivers installed for the modem - and that is what I am trying to find, drivers for that modem. Any other advice ??

A lot of times when a driver doesn't install, I will pull the card and Google the nomenclature printed on the card. If it sends you to drivers.com, remember that the login is drivers and the password is all.

You didn't hear that from me

Thanks for the feedback