Weird arse modem problem

Geck0
10-07-2003, 11:35 AM
It’s in a Via Kt400 / Athlon XP system, onboard sound, Ti4200 running WinXP Pro SP1.

They are using AOL dialup.

The modem worked fine up to this point but now windows is not detecting a dial tone – there is no audible dial tone as there was in the past.

I provided some phone support on the unit yesterday, here is a list of what we tried:

-Check that the phone cord is connected and is in the correct jack

-There is a dial tone if a phone is connected to the same cord & wall outlet

-Swapping several different cables did not remedy

-Checked device manager, no reported conflicts, device is shown to be working properly

-Uninstalled drivers & hardware, rebooted unit, windows recognized modem and drivers reinstalled fine

-Ran msconfig and chose standard startup (I have previously seen certain softmodem chipsets cause this error under XP if certain services are disabled)


None of the above actions remedied the problem. Is there anything else I should have them try before I RMA the modem?

iNVAR
10-07-2003, 12:05 PM
sounds like a borked modem if it just suddenly stopped working.

Geck0
10-07-2003, 01:52 PM
Yeah that's what I think too - might be a physical connection break at the jack because windows sees it fine.

Data
10-07-2003, 04:10 PM
Yeah that's what I think too - might be a physical connection break at the jack because windows sees it fine.
What geographical location?

I had lightning take out the modem JUST at the RJ-11 interface. The modem was fine as far as Windows was concerned, but there was no dial tone.

Just throwing that out there from my experience. :bandit:

Gil
10-07-2003, 06:29 PM
make sure they're not on the phone when they try to dial up.

Geck0
10-08-2003, 03:37 PM
What geographical location?

I had lightning take out the modem JUST at the RJ-11 interface. The modem was fine as far as Windows was concerned, but there was no dial tone.

Just throwing that out there from my experience. :bandit:

They are in Pensacola - I think that may be the case.

The vendor is being a fucking dick about it to - $9 part.

I think I'll just go buy a replacement from newegg and have done with it - not worth my time.

Data
10-08-2003, 04:28 PM
*nod* ;)