Try using a new telephone cable to the modem,a friend of mines went bad we
went nuts searching for the problem
(he had two bad cables) brought his computer to my house and every thing
worked fine.  Se if you can borrow one from a friend before buying one. No
need to throw good money after bad.
Paul Ryan
Germany

>   ----- Original Message -----=20
>   From: Christopher Barno=20
>   To: [log in to unmask]
>   Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 9:59 AM
>   Subject: [PCBUILD] Modem Problems
>
>
>   I use Netzero to connect to the internet. It was fine a few days ago =
> and all of sudden I began recieving "No dial-tone" errors when I tryied =
> to connect. I checked all of my phone line connections and all were =
> fine. I removed my modem drivers and re-installed with no success.I =
> unchecked the "Wait for dial tone box" and nothing happened.  I removed =
> netzero and re-installed with no success. I bought a new modem and had =
> the same problem. I then put in the ATX1 init string and my modem =
> finally started to dial the phone numbers in my access list. I have 5 =
> different numbers in my list. It goes through all numbers and then I get =
> an error "unable to connect to any numbers in the list" Could this be =
> because of the init string? If i take it out, how can I resolve the no =
> dial tone error? I also went into control panel and into modems and then =
> the diagnostics tab and queryed the modem and it appears that my modem =
> is functioning properly. If anyone has any Ideas I would really =
> appreicate hearing them. Please help me. Thanks=20
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