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- From: curt@teleport.com (Curt...)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,de.comm.modem
- Subject: Re: _______ win95 dial-tone problem _______
- Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1996 08:13:18 GMT
- Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016
- Message-ID: <30f0d094.414983@news.teleport.com>
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- David Andrade <ez007315@u.washington.edu> wrote:
-
- >
- > This is a very strange problem. A machine with the following specs was
- > built:
- <snip>
- > 28.8 kbps Rockwell chipset internal fax/modem
- > Diamond Stealth 64bit DRAM 1mb
- <snip>
- > The modem cannot initialize a dialtone from my home phone (i tried 2
- > separate lines) But, at the computer vendors store the dial up modem
- >connection works fine!
- >
- > We have replaced the modem 4 times - this is very wierd -- perhaps it has
- > something to do with dial tone? Why would it work on one phone connection
- >but not another? Does anyone have a clue to what is going on?
- >
- > email back to <ez007315@u.washington.edu> or <sanetech@well.com>
- > David
-
-
- May be the dial tone. You might try telling your modem to blind-dial (dial without
- waiting for a dial tone) and see if it works -- if so, thats the problem. Be sure and
- put a delay before the dial string -- normally a couple of commas before the first
- number.
-
- Probably not related, but notice you have a Diamond video card, which uses
- an S3 graphics chip. There has been lots of problems with the S3 chip interfering
- with modems on Com4 -- an address conflict. So if your modem is on Com4, just
- for the heck of it try moving it to another com port.
-
- Best of luck to you,
- Curt...
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