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Flightless Bird
I have downgraded a Gateway M2614u laptop from Vista to WinXP. Gateway
has Vista drivers for this system on it's site, but no drivers for
WinXP. Nevertheless
I was able to find WinXP drivers on the net for everything except a
"Conexant HD
audio soft data fax modem with SmartCP". I have tried a ton of
different drivers
for this device including the Vista driver from Gateway for this
model, and one
from Microsoft/Windows Update. None will install correctly - modem
doesn't
work, yellow exclamation point on device in Device Manager.
I conclude that there must be multiple versions of this device (chip),
and either
there is no WinXP driver for it or I just haven't been able to
identify the correct
device and driver. Three questions:
-I've used Belarc Advisor, Everst and even Linux lspci to try to get
specific
model and version information on the device, but apparently the
information
I pick up is not sufficiently specific. Is there a way to get a more
exact
device ID or something that would enable me to track down the correct
driver?
-In the past I've used various internet driver download sites in
attempts
to solve this type of problem, and my experience has been that
they're
generally useless and sometimes even harmful. Is there such a site or
software utility that's really useful?
-If I can't find the driver, is there a way to disable the device
"completely"
in WinXP? Right now every time I boot the system Windows says "new
device found" and prompts me to try to install the driver - a cycle
I've
repeated many times in many different ways, with no luck ever.
has Vista drivers for this system on it's site, but no drivers for
WinXP. Nevertheless
I was able to find WinXP drivers on the net for everything except a
"Conexant HD
audio soft data fax modem with SmartCP". I have tried a ton of
different drivers
for this device including the Vista driver from Gateway for this
model, and one
from Microsoft/Windows Update. None will install correctly - modem
doesn't
work, yellow exclamation point on device in Device Manager.
I conclude that there must be multiple versions of this device (chip),
and either
there is no WinXP driver for it or I just haven't been able to
identify the correct
device and driver. Three questions:
-I've used Belarc Advisor, Everst and even Linux lspci to try to get
specific
model and version information on the device, but apparently the
information
I pick up is not sufficiently specific. Is there a way to get a more
exact
device ID or something that would enable me to track down the correct
driver?
-In the past I've used various internet driver download sites in
attempts
to solve this type of problem, and my experience has been that
they're
generally useless and sometimes even harmful. Is there such a site or
software utility that's really useful?
-If I can't find the driver, is there a way to disable the device
"completely"
in WinXP? Right now every time I boot the system Windows says "new
device found" and prompts me to try to install the driver - a cycle
I've
repeated many times in many different ways, with no luck ever.