Modem issues:

[geekender]

Specs:
1ghz Duron
ECS K7S5A Motherboard
128mb SDRAM
WD200BB 20GB Hard Drive
Antec Case with 300 Watt Sparkle Power supply

I have tried 3 modems on the computer. It was at my Dad's house and kept knocking itself off the internet. I heard some noise on the line so I assumed then that it was the line. He brought it to work and swapped the computer out with another unit to bring the one from work home and leave problem computer at work. The same problem exists at work also. Has anyone seen a motherboard or power supply cause this? Could it still be the modem?

 

[minendo]

Have you tried using a different PCI slot for the modem?

(Sorry about the rant over in OT, but there are several members in Tech Support that spend a lot of time trying to help out others. By the way, at the moment the above is all I could come up with since I havent used a dial up modem in quite some time now.)

 

[dexmanone]

I had a line I had to have cleaned once. Had to phone company come out and dry it out. If I remember right there was moisture in the line. This made my connection VERY slow, didn't kick me off, but if you heard crackling you could check it out.

 

[tim0thy]

<< (Sorry about the rant over in OT, but there are several members in Tech Support that spend a lot of time trying to help out others. By the way, at the moment the above is all I could come up with since I havent used a dial up modem in quite some time now.) >>

Are you kidding? I was going to flame his ass to hell and back. Seriously dude... if you get help, you should be so lucky, because people on the forums don't get paid and are doing it from the goodness of their heart. If you want your problem to be solved, why don't you offer to hire someone? Regardless, i'll throw in my two cents to the problem.

(1) update bios
(2) plug modem into a different pci slot
(3) try an external modem
(4) does it kick you off at random intervals or specific intervals?

Good luck. Finally, keep in mind that some people want to just go to the forums to relax. If you spent a day fixing stupid sh!t for people at work, do you really want to go home to help other people and not even get paid for it? Try to put yourself in our shoes.

 

[geekender]

Actually I have tried 3 different modems as well as moving the computer to his work, and it connects at 49k for about 2 minutes then disconnects for no reason. Wierd.

 

[tim0thy]

You forgot to include what OS, if it disconnects around 2minutes everytime, I suspect it might be a software configuration.

 

[geekender]

The last modem has (so far) fixed the problem. Unbelievable that a winmodem will cause problems in a 1ghz computer. Went to a USR hardware modem and no problems yet.