[Ham-Computers] Modem Installation Problem

[R Goodspeed (W7DGX)]

I have a U.S. Robotics 2976 modem that won=92t install on a new hard driv=
e

I am hoping someone here has expertise to help me get this modem
installed.

SOME BACKGROUND.

Windows 98 SE Intel 800 MHz Pentium with 500 Meg of ram.

The plug and play don=92t work.

The files for this modem where downloaded from the US Robotics site and
saved on a floppy disk. Attempts to execute the =93SETUP.EXE=94 file resu=
lts
in an illegal instruction message. Attempts to communicate with US
Robotics, both by email and phone, about this problem have failed.

LOOKING AT THE OLD HARD DRIVE on the same computer
(This hard drive has system problems but the modem still functioned
perfectly.)

The Modem Properties reports:
COM1     No Modem Installed
COM2     No Modem Installed
COM5     U.S. Robotics 56K Voice PCI

Current Communications Driver reports:
The communications driver is =93comm..drv=94.

More Info=85 reports:
Port:             COM5
Interrupt:      5
Address:      A000

Also using the find file command, the downloaded files were found
somewhere in the C:\windows\system  directory (folder) or
subdirectories. There were three exceptions:
SETUP.EXE
3CPCICV.INF
3CPCIMAP.SYS

I would not expect the setup.exe to be loaded. The other two are
surprises to me.

Also some name changes occurred.
All the 3cpciv=85 files had he 3com prefix added.
The turbo*.vx_ files were called turbo*.vxd and were much larger.

All the files had older dates and most had minor size changes. I would
expect that with the later version.

Thanks for reading this. I hope you can help me.

           Rolly  W7DGX