56K modem blues......no dialtone

[bihari]

My modem has suddenly started giving this NO DIALTONE FOUND error when i try to dial out.

The telephone connected through the modem has the dialtone and when i click the MORE INFO button in CONTROL PANEL->MODEM->DIAGNOSTICS tab, my system communicates with the modem and returns a series of AT statements which is supposed to indicate that the modem is working fine. I don;t have any IRQ conflicts either and have reinstalled the drivers and dial up networking too.

Does anybody has any ideas whas wrong with my modem ?

It's 56K US robotics voice capable modem and i am runnin win 98 on a dell dimension intel P II processor.

 

[bigbootydaddy]

plug in a regular phone, make sure there is a line and you paid your phone bill.

 

[dave127]

im guessing that you have the phone line plugged in, right?

i had this problem a few weeks ago and i tried to reinstall the modem drivers and then actually take out the modem and reinstall it...neither worked, i ended up doing a reinstall of windows 98 and it worked

hope this helps

Dave

 

[sadb0i]

if u had a storm recently it may have shorted it out...j/w because there have been storms all over...remove and readd your modem...

 

[obenton]

Try Phone Dialer. If it also doesn't work the fault's likely with the modem. If it does work, try removing and reinstalling DUN.

 

[Mihir]

Plug in the "ATX0" command in the options of your modem.
That will ask it not to look for a dialtone and start dialling immediately.
I think there is a checkbox in modem properties.
I am on a solaris box right now so cant check.

EDIT: adding instructions


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The modem can be configured not to automatically look for a dial tone. Open ControPanel, double click on 'Modems' and click on 'Properties'. Choose the 'Connection' tab and uncheck the 'Wait for dial tone' box. Then click on 'Advanced' and type 'ATX0' in the 'Extra Settings' input field. >>

 

[Mihir]

Btw.. sometimes the reason it says dialtone not found is - if you have callnotes (voicemail), and the dialtone changes when you have messages waiting to be retreived. The modem doesnt recognize the beeping dialtone

Mihir

 

[AndyHui]

Try the initialisation string &quot;AT&amp;FW2X3&quot;.

The string does this: reset the modem to default settings, dial blindly without waiting for dial tone, display modem connection rate.