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Hi, I'm from the UK. I am, well was using AOL ADSL broaband using a BT Voyager 105 ADSL modem. After installing Vista as a clean installation, my system no longer allows me to install the modem or the AOL 9 software properly. I tried several different ways and managed to somehow install the driver for the modem and did install the AOL software, but when ever I want to run the AOL software, I get an error which says that it has install a few more files and has to restart the whole PC!
The error just doesn't want to go away. I tried installing and reinstalling several times, with no success what so ever! Can someone please give me suggestions as to what I should be doing.
Also, to Microsoft, or anyone who can help me, I noticed that I have to activate my Vista installation within 15 days through the internet! But if I can not get my modem to work beofre that, what will happen to my system after 15 days? Will I still be able to maybe install XP again?
Thanks for reading. Hope you can help

hi can you tell me if you found a driver or a way to get the bt voyager to work i have the same problem and have tried every way i can think off

I've had the same problem with the voyager 100 and with not being able to use AOL, how did you install the drivers in the end?
"tomlennon" wrote:

hi can you tell me if you found a driver or a way to get the bt voyager to work i have the same problem and have tried every way i can think off

I have the AOL stand alone client over here in florida and have the same problems with it, what it is, is that AOL has yet to release a version of AOL that suports the Vista platform and upon contacting them was told that we will get it after or when vista is released later in 07 (GREAT WORK AOL!).
As for BT voyager I've never heard of that and plus I don't use DSL because I've heard some real horror storys, like this one, maybe think of switching over to cable broadband if you guys have it over there, 10MB/s can't be beat and I've never had to find a driver for my external cable modem.
As for the activation, I think that after the 15 days the system locks up, probably with a screen that tells you to activate, I think you can do it over the phone though, I can't remember, maybe contact tech support on that one.

I have the AOL 9/BT Voyager combo. I have found two ways to get the modem installed and working under Vista Beta 2 (5384)
1. install xp service pack 2 clean, and install the modem drivers ( not the AOL client, just the modem drivers under CD:\Drivers\Voyager100\setup.exe, then run an upgrade install of Vista from XP.
2. install vista, go to the setup.exe under Voyager100 on the cd as before, right click the setup.exe and go to Properties. On the Compatibility tab, tick the box "run this program in compatibility mode for" and select "Windows 2000" from the drop down. When I've tried to install this natively without the compatibility mode setting it just hangs on the ?Preparing for installation" step. Anyway, with compatibility mode it will run just as in XP, then take aaaages on the "installing" dialog. You need to wait until it's about 1/3 to 1/2 of the way through, you should have by then had the popup from vista saying "Device installed successfully", then go into task manager and kill the GsiInst.exe process. That's the setup program. Then reboot and everything should be working fine. It seems that the setup tries to do one final operation - cleanup probably, and hangs and times out. But when it times out it rolls back the installation, unsuccessfully. Euch. So don't let it time out, and bingo!
Hope one of these works for you, and don't install the AOL client! setup a dial up connection (sounds weird, I know) to 0,38 and you have the net.
Leon
"Bladewing51" wrote in message

I have the AOL stand alone client over here in florida and have the same problems with it, what it is, is that AOL has yet to release a version of AOL that suports the Vista platform and upon contacting them was told that we will get it after or when vista is released later in 07 (GREAT WORK AOL!).
As for BT voyager I've never heard of that and plus I don't use DSL because I've heard some real horror storys, like this one, maybe think of switching over to cable broadband if you guys have it over there, 10MB/s can't be beat and I've never had to find a driver for my external cable modem.
As for the activation, I think that after the 15 days the system locks up, probably with a screen that tells you to activate, I think you can do it over the phone though, I can't remember, maybe contact tech support on that one.

Hi, I'm from the UK. I am, well was using AOL ADSL broaband using a BT Voyager 105 ADSL modem. After installing Vista as a clean installation, my system no longer allows me to install the modem or the AOL 9 software properly. I tried several different ways and managed to somehow install the driver for the modem and did install the AOL software, but when ever I want to run the AOL software, I get an error which says that it has install a few more files and has to restart the whole PC!
The error just doesn't want to go away. I tried installing and reinstalling several times, with no success what so ever! Can someone please give me suggestions as to what I should be doing.
Also, to Microsoft, or anyone who can help me, I noticed that I have to activate my Vista installation within 15 days through the internet! But if I can not get my modem to work beofre that, what will happen to my system after 15 days? Will I still be able to maybe install XP again?
Thanks for reading. Hope you can help