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Toshiba Software Modem

letnes

Junior Member
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.
 
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)
 
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