disable the modem in the device manager. but why are you so keen to get rid of it? i think that removing one pci device that's not even being used isn't going to have that much effect on the computer's performance.
there might be some way to disable its pci slot in the bios settings
check the irq assignments for all your devices. you might try moving the sound card around until it's not sharing an irq with anything else
just throwing ideas out there... :-)
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