Botched Dial-up-networking in NT

[BillyB]

Okay, so I was fooling around and decided to upgrade the drivers for my modem. As it turns out the drivers were for Win98 and don't work under NT.

First error: Unimdm.tsp is not a NT format (or something like that)

So I tried to go into control panel->modems and remove the modem...

Second Error: "not enough memory to open "modems" directory, close some programs."

Nothing else was running and I have 128MB of SDRAM in the machine already. I moved the page file up to 500MB to see if I could get in that way but it didn't help. Next I decided to un-install remote access server and re-install it.

Error 3: (on re-installation) "there are no RAS devices...would you like to install a modem?" I said yes and tried this several times but could NOT get it reinstalled. Next I went to the NT disk and got Unimdm.ts_ and put it in c:\WINNT\system32\ which did nothing.

Any ideas about how I can fix this? I really hope I don't have to reinstall NT.

[BillyB]

Got it!!! What a mess!! Had to go through the start-up disk (repair) and replace all the new drivers with originals. Then reinstall RAS and the modem and IE5 and new drivers. All this because I was too lazy (or cheap) to buy some more floppies to create an "emergency repair disk"! I'm on my way to the store right NOW!!!!

[BBA]

One thing...if you remove RAS or DUN from NT4, it usually removes support for the devices. Correct this by going into control panel and opening the telephony devices applet and select the option to add devices and be sure the "Unimodem device" is installed.

This one thing will ruin any attemp to install RAS/DUN if it is not present.