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New to Small Business Server 4.5, the Installed Modem
Wizard makes an effort to confirm that there is in fact a match between
the modem firmware and the device driver that you select. The Small Business Server
web site also includes a page with a hyperlink to popular modem device
drivers on the 3Com web site. Modems and Ease of Hardware
Configurations
While Small Business Server 4.5 is still designed for
unattended installation, the Small Business Server product team wanted to
provide more flexibility for testing and reconfirming the modem
configuration and device driver selection. The Installed
Modem Wizard allows you to view which modem or modems were auto detected
during the unattended installation of NT Server 4.0. From there, the
wizard compares the selected device driver and corresponding unimodem ID
with the firmware of the modem and alerts you through a yellow or red flag
to any suspicious compatibility problems that may arise between the .inf
file and firmware. So this way you can head off any hardware
configurations problems right at the outset. The Diagnostic
"Flags" for Problems with Hardware Configurations
If a yellow exclamation point appears, the wrong modem
driver may have been installed. The wizard is advising you to double-check
your modem driver version against your firmware version to insure that the
proper device driver is selected. If a red x appears, Small Business Server
4.5 has determined that your modem was installed during NT Server 4.0
setup as an "undetected modem". Under Beta 2 of Small Business Server
4.5, the red X referred to a "standard modem"; however, the
wording was changed to "undetected the modem" to underscore the
huge potential for future problems. The Small Business Server 4.5 Fax
Service will not operate properly unless the undetected modem device
driver is replaced by the proper device driver for the modem. Installed
Modem Wizard and Hardware Configurations
New to Small Business Server 4.5, the Installed Modem
Wizard helps prevent potentially troublesome mismatches between modem
firmware revisions and device driver versions. The
Installed Modem Wizard allows you to view and modify the modem(s) that
were auto detected during NT Server 4.0 unattended install. The
Installed Modem Wizard allows you to easily compare the device driver
version to the modem firmware revision to assess whether or not there's a
match. Hardware Confirmation Pages for Hardware Configurations
Small Business Server 4.5 also introduces hardware
confirmation pages that you let you review and modify, if need be, the
hardware selection and device drivers for the disk controller(s), video
adapters, network card(s), and other mass storage devices that were auto
detected during the unattended installation of NT Server 4.0. The
hardware confirmation page appears just after you complete the Installed
Modem Wizard. Both steps are completed after Windows NT Server 4.0 and
Service Pack 4 have been installed, but before the installation of core Small Business Server
applications. New to Small Business Server 4.5, the
hardware confirmation pages allow you to review and modify the hardware
configurations selection and device drivers for the disk controllers,
network cards, and video adapter that were auto detected during the
unattended NT Server 4.0 setup.
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