Chapter 1: Installing Your Faxmodem 9
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If you are removing your old modem: Please refer
to your old modem manufacturer’s removal in-
structions. The following procedure should work in
most cases.
Before you remove your old modem, you must in-
form Windows that you are going to remove it be-
fore you physically do so. This helps to prevent in-
ternal conflicts in Windows as it allocates its
resources to your new faxmodem.
Follow these steps:
• Click on Start | Settings | Control Panel and
double-click on the Modems icon.
• Highlight the entry for your old modem by
clicking on it.
• Now click on the Remove button. Click OK to
confirm that you are removing the modem.
Windows has now been informed of your intention
to remove the old modem.
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Before you start the hardware installation, close
all running programs and shut down Windows if
you have not already done so. Then turn your
computer off and unplug it. Don’t plug it back in
or turn it on until you complete the faxmodem
hardware installation.
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Take the cover off your computer.
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Unscrew and remove the metal cover plate on the
rear of the computer that lines up with an available
PCI slot.
The PCI slot is shorter than a 16-bit ISA slot and
usually a different color (ISA slots are typically
black or brown; PCI slots are usually white or
gray). Your faxmodem has two sections of gold
connecting fingers, and a PCI slot has two sections
that match the sections on the faxmodem.
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