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XP reboots when dialing up

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by silverb

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I recently flashed my BIOS to the latest version. The only problem I had was with the autodetection of my HD. I had to put the details in manually and all seemed fine. I was able to use dialup after the upgrade until recently when trying to dialup my ISP it immediately reboots my machine. Can't understand what might suddenly have changed to cause this problem. Not tried reinstalling the driver yet but can't see why it should be OK one minute and Kaput the next. Any ideas

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by timthetoolman

Hi,

WindowsXP is very stable. In fact the only time it generally has problems is when a third party, low level program fails. Like a driver.

Almost everything else that you run on an NT/2K/XP machine runs "above" the level where it can cause problems with the correct running of the PC.

At least thats the theory.

I would strongly suggest re-installing the modem drivers as they may have become corrupted and cause XP to crash. Not all code in a driver always executes. It may be that the circumstances when using the modem subtly change from one initiation to the next and consequently the broken code path isn't always followed.

There can be other problems too, though.

What kind of modem are we talking about here? Internal, external, USB, external and network aware (like a cable modem), something else?

Cheers,
Tim.

by Member 35772270

Your modem is not being initialized, go to www.56k.com and find your modem and get the modem strings to initialize the modem. If you need more directions on how to impliment them let me know.

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