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Modem Dead?
Hi - I was using freeserve as my isp and all was working well. I installed
AOL 8 and now the modem is dead - even if I re-install the drivers and remove AOL - why oh why did this happen? thanks |
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"James" wrote in message ... Hi - I was using freeserve as my isp and all was working well. I installed AOL 8 and now the modem is dead - even if I re-install the drivers and remove AOL - why oh why did this happen? thanks you could try removing all networking components and any modem(s) shown in control panel then reboot and install all from scratch |
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"philo" wrote in message ... "James" wrote in message ... Hi - I was using freeserve as my isp and all was working well. I installed AOL 8 and now the modem is dead - even if I re-install the drivers and remove AOL - why oh why did this happen? thanks you could try removing all networking components and any modem(s) shown in control panel then reboot and install all from scratch I have done that - no modem still... |
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I'd call AOL and ask what their software did...
....but they don't call it A-O-Hell for nothing! "James" wrote in message ... Hi - I was using freeserve as my isp and all was working well. I installed AOL 8 and now the modem is dead - even if I re-install the drivers and remove AOL - why oh why did this happen? thanks |
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"Phrederik" wrote in message news:3oo6b.7846$Fe6.4290@pd7tw2no... I'd call AOL and ask what their software did... ...but they don't call it A-O-Hell for nothing! "James" wrote in message ... Hi - I was using freeserve as my isp and all was working well. I installed AOL 8 and now the modem is dead - even if I re-install the drivers and remove AOL - why oh why did this happen? thanks i rang aol and they simply ran through the same routines as I had to troubleshoot and then said the modem was dead (I knew that) they said it has nothing to do with there software. I know that it is more than possible for it to be their software as I have been a programmer for 7 years. The only thing that I wonder is - does the AOL setup include accessing the ROM on the modem? - Does AOL access the modem directly without being driven by the modem drivers - Would they be directly accessing the modem for any reason? any time during setup or use? - anyone? |
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"James" wrote in message ... "Phrederik" wrote in message news:3oo6b.7846$Fe6.4290@pd7tw2no... I'd call AOL and ask what their software did... ...but they don't call it A-O-Hell for nothing! "James" wrote in message ... Hi - I was using freeserve as my isp and all was working well. I installed AOL 8 and now the modem is dead - even if I re-install the drivers and remove AOL - why oh why did this happen? thanks i rang aol and they simply ran through the same routines as I had to troubleshoot and then said the modem was dead (I knew that) they said it has nothing to do with there software. I know that it is more than possible for it to be their software as I have been a programmer for 7 years. The only thing that I wonder is - does the AOL setup include accessing the ROM on the modem? - Does AOL access the modem directly without being driven by the modem drivers - Would they be directly accessing the modem for any reason? any time during setup or use? - anyone? well to tell the truth i once did load aol on to one of my machines when i first got into computers...and the modem never worked again... however if aol really went around and destroyed modems as a general rule... i think there would be a lot of complaints... even though i am totally against aol... i have to give them the benefit of the doubt and say it was probably a coincidence one last thing: i have seen installed software somehow actually cause a change in the bios irq assignment to the modem... so before you trash that modem...so how the bios detects it and possibly do a little trial and error reassignment |
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On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 11:48:15 +0100, "James"
wrote: Hi - I was using freeserve as my isp and all was working well. I installed AOL 8 and now the modem is dead - even if I re-install the drivers and remove AOL - why oh why did this happen? thanks You are jumping to a conclusion (modem is dead) without telling us any of the symptoms causing you to conclude that it is "dead". If it's "dead", there's no recovery, buy another modem. If it's just misconfigured, not dead (the more likely situation) then we need exact details of what's going on.. only you are sitting in front of the box. Dave |
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- Download the latest drivers for your modem that you can find. Do NOT
install them yet. - Boot to safe mode - Delete any instance of the modem that you can find in the Device Mangler - Shut down - Remove the modem from the computer - Start the PC - Uninstall anything to do with the modem that you can find. AOL software, any drivers, etc. that are in the add/remove software. ....at this point you have to look at the instructions for your modem drivers. If they should be installed BEFORE putting the modem back, reboot the computer now and then run the modem installation. Now shutdown and install the modem INTO A DIFFERENT SLOT than before. Start the PC. ....if the modem should be installed BEFORE installing the modem software, shut down the PC now and reinstall the modem INTO A DIFFERENT SLOT than it was before. Start the PC and install the drivers. - Reboot the PC If it's going to work, it should work now. |
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"kony" wrote in message ... On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 11:48:15 +0100, "James" wrote: Hi - I was using freeserve as my isp and all was working well. I installed AOL 8 and now the modem is dead - even if I re-install the drivers and remove AOL - why oh why did this happen? thanks You are jumping to a conclusion (modem is dead) without telling us any of the symptoms causing you to conclude that it is "dead". If it's "dead", there's no recovery, buy another modem. If it's just misconfigured, not dead (the more likely situation) then we need exact details of what's going on.. only you are sitting in front of the box. Dave ok - modem worked before aol. aol was installed - modem doesn't work any more. I have uninstalled the modem ( from device manager) and then let the system detect it again on reboot - it was detected and yet still did not work, neither with modem diagnostics or hyperterminal etc. Nothing can now communicate with the modem - at all. There is no IRQ conflict and windows detects no problems with the modem- It's just that windows cannot communicate with it any more - the only thing that had changed was AOL being installed - |
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"James" wrote in message ... "kony" wrote in message ... On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 11:48:15 +0100, "James" wrote: Hi - I was using freeserve as my isp and all was working well. I installed AOL 8 and now the modem is dead - even if I re-install the drivers and remove AOL - why oh why did this happen? thanks You are jumping to a conclusion (modem is dead) without telling us any of the symptoms causing you to conclude that it is "dead". If it's "dead", there's no recovery, buy another modem. If it's just misconfigured, not dead (the more likely situation) then we need exact details of what's going on.. only you are sitting in front of the box. Dave ok - modem worked before aol. aol was installed - modem doesn't work any more. I have uninstalled the modem ( from device manager) and then let the system detect it again on reboot - it was detected and yet still did not work, neither with modem diagnostics or hyperterminal etc. Nothing can now communicate with the modem - at all. There is no IRQ conflict and windows detects no problems with the modem- It's just that windows cannot communicate with it any more - the only thing that had changed was AOL being installed - another point is that AOL 8 (current version on system) - was installed ok before and worked fine - but since then windows has been re-installed - ... |
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