Installing Hardware??

I recently installed a modem on a Windows NT machine, but the machine didn't autodetect it. I looked in Control Panel for a Add New Hardware Wizard, but there wasn't one there. How can I have Windows detect this modem? Is New Hardware Wizard somewhere else?

NT is not plug-and-play. What kind of modem is it? If it is a Win-Modem, make sure that it is supported in NT. If it is it should have come with an NT Setup disk, or you should be able to download one.

I don't have the original install disks. I downloaded some drivers that I know work with Win 9x. I'm not sure of the actual Model of the modem so here is a picture.

Where do you go in NT to install any type of hardware? Or do you just use the install disk to do it?

Did you try modems in the control pannel? That wizzard should find a modem there, then try the standard modem option it offers. If it looks and doesn't find a modem, it is probably plug and play, requireing 3rd party software. With no jumpers on the modem, PCI interface, it would probably be P'n'P Baby! You need to narrow down that software...

In NT you add your hardware through the control panel in most cases. For example to install a SCSI device, zip drive or other external storage devices you go to the SCSI Applet to add a device. To add a sound card, you can goto the Multimedia Applet. Most hardware comes with a separate NT install that does it for you. This modem is a winmodem with a lucent chip. It could be made by any manufacturer. Without the exact software for this modem you will have a heck of a time getting it to work. Is there an FCC ID number on the other side of the modem?

Here are two links to generic lucent winmodem drivers. You could try these.
http://www.windrivers.com/script/dri...company=Lucent
http://www.lucent.com/micro/K56flex/driver.html

I agree with msilaski, but for the sake of a bit of cash I'd get a new modem with the NT install disks, life's too short to find the drivers to get the one you've got working in NT.

A failsafe way to get a modem to work in NT is to get a hardware jumpered modem. Add COM port, then go into modems and detect it. Bam, done. A lot easier and simpler, no drivers, sets up as standard modem, real easy. Only thing is you have to pay more for the modem. Just my 2 cents worth. <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">