[SOLVED] modem switches com ports

Hi . Everytime I restart the computer and try to go online (Aol)
my provider searches for the modem.
When I look In device manager I always see that the com port switches between 3 and 4.
How do I stabilize the modem so that it stays on one port?
Am I stuck with this situation?
Everything else works fine.

 

Hi and welcome......what do you mean in device manager it switches between 3 and 4? Are you looking at the properties for the modem?

 

Yes the PROPERTIES/MODEM tab shows a window with the Port highlighted. You can't change the value.
Once it will be Com3
The next time it will be Com 4.

 

Are you sure?

Are there two modems appearing the control panel, modems, per chance?

 

No it only shows one,a Lucent winmodem

 

In your AOL settings, how many modems do you have set up?

 

Just one
That also switches the com port number after aol searches for the modem,
the are two other entries below the modem for
high speed cable
and broadband.
I deleted them once and Aol returned the back to the screen the next time I loaded Aol

 

Hmmm....sorry to say, I don't have any other ideas.....I guess if it's working..........

 

Well thanks anyway. I figure the PCI steering is doing the swiitching I just don't know how to stop it.

 

I asked this question a little while ago.

After much trial and error testing, it seems that the motherboard and modem were incomapatible.
The only recourse was to get another modem.
Any other fix would have been time and money consuming.
With modems being as cheap as they are it's easier to get another modem.

Thanks for your help
Johnn

 

Strange, have yet to see a modem incompatible with a motherboard.......oh well.......