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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Heretic Apostate" data-source="post: 353384" data-attributes="member: 696">I'm borrowing a computer here.  My computer was on "hibernate" mode, and when I turned it back on again, it was wiped out.  I've since wiped clean the hard drive three times, re-installed WinME again and again, but I am still having problems.If you guys can't help me, I'm going to have to drive two hours to the nearest authorized service center. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />The big problem, the one that's driving me nuts, is that I can't get the modem to work.  Every time the computer auto-setups the plug-n-play components, it keeps assigning the modem to the COM3 port.  Unfortunately, I don't have a COM3 port.  Is there someway to force the computer to think the modem is on the COM1 port?  I've already, at the request of the tech, moved the modem between slots (a scary proposition for me, because I didn't have any ESD wrist strap; I used to work at a place where, if you pointed at a product we manufactured, you ended up killing it).  The modem worked before the crash, so Gateway must have done something.  On the Properties tab for the modem, it should have a pull-down menu letting me pick among my com ports.  However, there isn't one for the modem.I have two unidentified items in my system properties/device manager screen.  One of them I know is my sound card (I lost the CD with my sound card drivers, and without being able to log on--to a faster computer, at least, this one is glacier-slowness--I can't fix that).  Could that have something to do with it?Help, help, help!!!!I tried to save all my stuff from My Documents, My Download Files--Real Download--and from my registrations, but the computer was too unstable.  I have hundreds of hours of downloading to do. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

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