Went home, booted system, BIOS has both IDE channels set on.
HD pri master.
no pri slave
Sec master is CD burner.
Sec slave is old burner that I added.
Then shut down, pulled off power and IDE cable on old burner.
Rebooting just the two drives were seen.
Modem still on COM4 IRQ 11 With a IRQ holder to PCI steering on the MB.
Have COM1 physical port as well.
Bumming me out because if removed, it will be detected, and installed, I use the drivers from the mainboard CD to do so, though it's install program no longer sees the modem or sound.
Going to modem in control panel, see com 1, and the modem on com 4, which was as before it broke, however hitting more info on it gives the dreded "Can't open port" message. I'm assuming this means the drivers are not properly installed? Why would I now have a conflict?
Adding the old burner back, still have the same settings.
Other issue going on with it is that the onboard sound chip may have died, only way to enable or disable it is by BIOS, and the BIOS has it as enabled, but the system listing after POST (which flashes by too fast, any way to pause it?) doesn't appear to indicate the system sees it any more.
That in itself will have me taking it to Georgio's computers on Sat morning. Already taked to him, he eased my mind by saying it isn't fixable (Though I'm frustrated because I'm A+ certted, should be able to solve this one).
Unless we might come up with something, I'm going to have the main board swapped due to the sound issue, am curious if something else is doing this with the modem, but after the swap will see what we have. If they (or we) can't get it back, then I'll have him take out the CNR card for it and put in a USR PCI "Real" modem, and just not deal with the software based type any more.
Would have posted earlier, was hoping to post from home, but alas ....