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My wife complains that I didn't properly install the ISDN modem in her
Compaq Armada, because half the time when she wants to go online, there comes a 'modem not found' warning. But the installation offers no room for mistakes. The PCMCIA card is in its slot, W98 says it found new hardware and you offer it the CD from which it picks the inf file and drivers, all from Xircom (now Intel). In the config menu you enter the phone nrs and select 1 or 2 channel coms, and that's all. There is a loopback test program to check the cable between the card and the phone company's ISDN hub, there is no problem there. If W98 cannot find the modem it needs a reboot, sometimes more that one. It seems that after standby the problem occurs more frequent, at least that's what my wife says. The laptop has only IE-5 and OE to connect to the outside world, all straight from the W98SE OEM CD, no patches installed. Compaqs have always been tricky machines when it comes to adding hardware, but once succesfully installed I cannot think of any mechanism that could cause erratic behaviour like this. Cornelis Koger |
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"C.D. Koger" wrote in message ... My wife complains that I didn't properly install the ISDN modem in her Compaq Armada, because half the time when she wants to go online, there comes a 'modem not found' warning. But the installation offers no room for mistakes. The PCMCIA card is in its slot, W98 says it found new hardware and you offer it the CD from which it picks the inf file and drivers, all from Xircom (now Intel). In the config menu you enter the phone nrs and select 1 or 2 channel coms, and that's all. There is a loopback test program to check the cable between the card and the phone company's ISDN hub, there is no problem there. If W98 cannot find the modem it needs a reboot, sometimes more that one. It seems that after standby the problem occurs more frequent, at least that's what my wife says. The laptop has only IE-5 and OE to connect to the outside world, all straight from the W98SE OEM CD, no patches installed. Compaqs have always been tricky machines when it comes to adding hardware, but once succesfully installed I cannot think of any mechanism that could cause erratic behaviour like this. Did you check to be sure the card is firmly seated? Unplug and replug it. |
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"philo" wrote in message ... "C.D. Koger" wrote in message ... My wife complains that I didn't properly install the ISDN modem in her Compaq Armada, because half the time when she wants to go online, there comes a 'modem not found' warning. But the installation offers no room for mistakes. The PCMCIA card is in its slot, W98 says it found new hardware and you offer it the CD from which it picks the inf file and drivers, all from Xircom (now Intel). In the config menu you enter the phone nrs and select 1 or 2 channel coms, and that's all. There is a loopback test program to check the cable between the card and the phone company's ISDN hub, there is no problem there. If W98 cannot find the modem it needs a reboot, sometimes more that one. It seems that after standby the problem occurs more frequent, at least that's what my wife says. The laptop has only IE-5 and OE to connect to the outside world, all straight from the W98SE OEM CD, no patches installed. Compaqs have always been tricky machines when it comes to adding hardware, but once succesfully installed I cannot think of any mechanism that could cause erratic behaviour like this. Did you check to be sure the card is firmly seated? Unplug and replug it. are your power saving features "turning off" the card when not in use ? |
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"Haggis" wrote in message ... "philo" wrote in message ... "C.D. Koger" wrote in message ... My wife complains that I didn't properly install the ISDN modem in her Compaq Armada, because half the time when she wants to go online, there comes a 'modem not found' warning. But the installation offers no room for mistakes. The PCMCIA card is in its slot, W98 says it found new hardware and you offer it the CD from which it picks the inf file and drivers, all from Xircom (now Intel). In the config menu you enter the phone nrs and select 1 or 2 channel coms, and that's all. There is a loopback test program to check the cable between the card and the phone company's ISDN hub, there is no problem there. If W98 cannot find the modem it needs a reboot, sometimes more that one. It seems that after standby the problem occurs more frequent, at least that's what my wife says. The laptop has only IE-5 and OE to connect to the outside world, all straight from the W98SE OEM CD, no patches installed. Compaqs have always been tricky machines when it comes to adding hardware, but once succesfully installed I cannot think of any mechanism that could cause erratic behaviour like this. Did you check to be sure the card is firmly seated? Unplug and replug it. I did that several times before I posted, i's not that kind of problem. are your power saving features "turning off" the card when not in use ? I think (but I'm not sure) that when you put a laptop in standby, a memory image is written to disk and restored when the machine wakes up again. It can also be that the memory remains powered, but since that is dynamic ram, the cpu should also keep working at a reduced pace to take care of refresh cycles. Whatever method Compaq uses, hard disk, video and the ISDN card will not be powered during standby . No doubt there will be memory on the card for buffers, flags etc. That might be the heart of the problem. Good thinking! Cornelis Koger |
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