Toshiba Software Modem

letnes

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Sep 23, 2004
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My modem on my Satellite M35-S359 laptop has recently stopped working. I called Toshiba went through some things with them , uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers and we could not get it to work. They want me to send the laptop in to them, but I thought I would try and see if you guys could help me.

When I go to Device manager and go to Modems and properties the Device status says working properly. When I try to Query the Modem under Diagnostics I get the following error message " The port that the modem is attached to could not be opened. This may be the result of a Hardware conflict. Check the device manager to verify all devices are functiional. "

In device manager that are no yellow exclamation marks, so everything seems ok.

When I view log under Diagnostics the last line in the log says "Opening the modem device failed with error 000005aa"

It seems to me that this is a com port problem rather than a driver problem.


Thank You for your help.
 

LiLithTecH

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Jul 28, 2002
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Are you using any FAX software?

That error generally appears when some soft device is monitoring
the Com Port.

Other software (that comes pre-installed) to look at for conflicts are:
Intuit's BILLMINDER
Norton (Symantec) LIVE! Update (default setting is every 4 hrs to check for updates)