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wiped My HD and tried to load W7 ultimate, but the built-in modem will
not load. I then loaded w10 and tried to use My W7 activation to
activate W10, and was refused. W10 works, but get the activation
reminder on the desktop.

Any thoughts on working this issue?

If you have a valid W7 software and license key, I the trick is to first just
put the W7 on. Then do all of the automatic security updates and within a
week or so, you will get a notice that says you can upgrade to W10.

When you get that W10 upgrade notice, do the W10 upgrade from there. Do not
go online and download a W10 software or upgrade directly since your W7
license key won't work for that. The built-in valid W7 license key will only
work for the W10 upgrade notice that you get from Microsoft after you have
had W7 installed for a while (a week or so).

With your W7 installed, the problem with the modem is probably a driver
problem. I found a free driver updater software online that checks for the
correct drivers, but the free version only lets you update up to two drivers
per day. I can't remember the name of the free program right now.

Or, if you know the modem make and model you can probably go to a support
website and download the correct driver.

If you post a reply back here in response to the above, I'll give you the
info for a very good newsgroup for computer questions like the ones you have.
It is a news.annexcafe.com newsgroup called annexcafe.general.user2user .

Only problem with your solution is that the internal modem won't load,
so it's impossible to do all you wrote Tom. :/