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Date:	Sun, 8 Feb 2004 02:16:09 PST8
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Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Actiontec modem setup

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Hi Wayne
Please excuse me for my frank and open word:
Throw your PCi Actiontec Modem into THRASH !!!

Get a normal Modem and do connect it to COMx !!
You save a LOT of difficulties, nerves and sorrows ;-) =

A hint:
Get a 3COM U.S. Robotics 56k Professional Message Modem =

and you have a versatile unit being usable as:
Modem, Send and Receive Fax, Phone Answering Machine =

and not only this:
Your external unit will receive Fax and Calls even with your PC =

off or while you are out of the house ;-))

Do reconsider your modem solution ...
=2E.. you will be happier on the fly ;-)))

Good luck, svobi =

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waynec@linkline.com on 08/02/2004 09:39:59
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Subject: SCOUG-Help: Actiontec modem setup

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Unfortunately, this scsi problem has now overshadowed the Actiontec
modem =

problem that started this discourse and perhaps should get it's own
thread, =

(at the moment the scsi is the more important problem), but it still
could =

be related, I guess. =

Steven Levine writes: =

> In <20040208023927.7445.qmail@joan.linkline.com>, on 02/07/04 =

> at 06:39 PM, waynec@linkline.com said: =

> =

> =

>>IRQ's Activity Monitoring <<<< what does "monitoring" mean?
>> IRQ3 com2 enabled <<<< should this be disabled?
> =

> This should be covered in the BIOS users manual. These are the
settings
> for wake up from power save shutdowns and stuff like that. =

> =

>> IRQ11 reserved disabled <<< troublesome? ... Actiontec modem
uses
>>11
> =

> No, unlrelated. =

> =

>> IRQ15 reserved disabled <<< troublesome? =

> =

> No. =

> =

>>Is it possible that the apparent effects of reseating the scsi cable
and =

>>cards are just coincidental? Some sort of shared IRQ issue? If so,
why =

>>didn't removing the modem clear them up? =

> =

> You have a bad piece of hardware. The HBA seems to be a possibility,
but
> I would not rule out a MB problem.

Maybe it's just too late at night: ....what's "HBA"? =

Motherboard??? More likely the scsi adapter or cable, wouldn't you
think? =

The PCI NIC card uses PCI and the same IRQ 11 and continues to work
fine. =

But it just seems too much of a coincidence that this all started
happening =

within a couple of days of replacing an ide cdrom with a scsi cdrw &
2940U =

adapter, and adding a modem (which hasn't yet worked). =

I guess I could shift some PCI cards around to see if the 29160LP works
in =

another PCI slot, but then it looks fine at bootup and runs it's
utilities, =

it just doesn't want to connect to the hard drives properly,
particularly =

the first drive (jumpered as address 2). =

If it's hardware (and I agree it must be hardware or a bad bios
setting) I =

keep coming back to the scsi cable as the common hardware piece that
could =

be failing; possibly the PCI slot or something on the scsi adapter, but
the =

scsi adapter seems to interface to the machine just fine. Right now I
am =

booted under WinXP and the second scsi drive (address 6) is working
fine. =

The Actiontec PCI modem may be a separate issue. =

> =

>>What other bios settings should I be looking for? =

> =

> None, really. The one thing you might try is to reset the BIOS to
the low
> performance settings. I doubt it will help, but it is worth a try. =

If
> nothing else, it is evidence.

Low performance settings? I'm lost again. And what would it be evidence
of? =

I'll mount a search for the bios manual, seems like I saw it on a cdrom =

somewhere when I got this machine. =

Wayne =

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