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- From: mulvey@blurt.oswego.edu (Allen Mulvey, SUNY, Oswego, NY)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Wacky wild modem problems
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.114514.952@blurt.oswego.edu>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 16:45:14 GMT
- References: <modem> <1992Dec17.043611.5775@news.uiowa.edu> <1gpe95INN9kl@agate.berkeley.edu>
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- Organization: SUNY College at Oswego, Oswego, NY
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- In article <1gpe95INN9kl@agate.berkeley.edu>, shyguy@ocf.berkeley.edu (David S. Shy) writes:
- >>Could it be that the new motherboard is just too fast for this fairly
- >>ancient modem? I don't think this could be the case, since the bus still
- >>runs at the same speed. Could my UART be too slow? Could it be a problem
- >>with DMA? Or am I wrong on any of this? Any help on this would be appreciate
- >
- > i have pretty much the same problem also! i have a 2400 baud modem that
- > i use to use in my xt and it worked great. however after i got my 486 and
- > stuck it in, it would freeze on me about every two to three hours...
- > soft-reset usually works but it doesn't hangup the line... only a hard reset
- > will hangup....
- >
- > maybe like the above post suggested, the mb is too fast. if anyone else has
- > any suggestions please post. thanks in advance.
-
- I have a FAX board with this problem. If I take the machine out of turbo
- mode it works fine. I tried using the BIOS Setup to reduce the bus speed
- but that had no effect.
-
- Allen Mulvey
- mulvey@blurt.oswego.edu
-