Nokia 8310 data cable

SOMEBODY HELP ME PLEASE.

I'm new to this game and i am tryin to connect my 8310 to my PC using a data cable. I am using windows XP with Nokia pc suite 4.8 no matter wat i do i can not get my pc to recognise my phone. I have checked for a COM port conflict and nothing else is using the COM port. I have also tried using it in win 98 as my PC is dual boot but no joy there either. Can anyone out there help me ????????????

This may be a red-herring but I've had problems with modem/mouse conflicts before. If you have another device on a different com port make sure device 1 and device 2 are on com1 and com2
com1 and com3 share the same IRQ as do com2 and com4 so it's not good to use both sets at once.

Just something to try <-:

-grue-