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[Firebird97]

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Hey...I have a computer question.

Every once in a while, I'll boot my computer up and try to connect and it will say the line has no dial tone. But I'll plug a phone in to check the line, and it's fine. I reboot and it connects every time.

Anyway to fix this annoying problem?

 

[Styxx]

If Windows always says that when you're trying to connect it can mean the modem has gone bad.

Get free Zone Alarm personal firewall anti-hacker countermeasure from http://www.zonelabs.com. (not the demo) Don't let anything out to the Internet you don't know what it is.

Update your antivirus, temporarily disable your screen saver and scan with your anti-virus set to scan All Files. Update and scan bi-monthly. Create your anti-virus' Rescue disk(s) and update them after each Windows anti-virus update.

You can scan on-line to double-check your Windows scanner at http://housecall.antivirus.com

 

[Firebird97]

It doesn't always say that...maybe three times a week.

And it's always said that...not just recently, but since I got the modem.

 

[hewee]

Sounds like my old IBM PC and the MWAVE modem.
That was why IBM was sued of the MWAVE modem/sound card. It was nothing but trouble.

 

[Davey7549]

Firebird97
Welcome to TSG!
Your problem is probably the modem as Styxx and Hewee has said. You might want to try these things:
Check all connections and make sure they are clean and secure.
If any are found loose or warn replace the phone cable and retry
internet. If problem is still there
Go to device manager and make sure there is not two modems listed. I so remove the one not there any more. If two are not listed then remove the current modem from device manager, shutdown, remove the card, startup system to windows and then shutdown. Now clean all the connections on the new card, make sure all connections inside the computer are clean, reinstall card and reinstall all drivers. If problem still persists try ending task on all programs except systray and explorer using the crtl,alt,del function.
Keep us posted
Dave