From: art (art_at_courvilles.com)
Date: Mon Nov 25 2002 - 20:51:41 EST
This might be entirely off the wall, but have you tried
cleaning the contacts on the RJ11 socket where the phone
line plugs in? I think that's the one place where the
hardware actually is different.
STeve Andre' wrote:
>
> I would start looking at the very lowest level of how the modem process
> is run under Win2k. Given that the hardware does the same thing on
> both machines, there is a really subtle difference between them. Since
> the modem requires lots of CPU to do things (which is why I hate them),
> I think the 600X is either putting the modem software at a lower prio, or
> something like an interrupt is shared on the 600 but not the T21. It has
> to be something like that since the problem doesn't move.
>
> Ugh. The kind of problem I *hate* tracking down.
>
> --STeve Andre'
>
> On Monday 25 November 2002 07:52 pm, James H. E. Maugham wrote:
> > OK, I'm going nucking futs over this issue. :-(
> >
> > I've got the _same_ Lucent (LT) PCI WinModems in my 600X and my T21 under
> > W2K. Both have the latest and greatest drivers loaded from:
> > http://www.pc.ibm.com/qtechinfo/MIGR-42036.html
> >
> > T21 dials and connects at 49.8K.
> >
> > 600X dials and connects at 26.8K on the SAME line! (FWIW, the 600X will
> > also connect at 49.8K when using a 3Com PCMCIA NIC/Modem on the same line.)
> >
> > OK, let's check the modems. Diagnostics on both systems say everything is
> > fine, AT13 = LT V.92 Data+Fax Modem Version 8.22. Hmmmmmm.
> >
> > OK, swap the modems between the T21 and the 600X.
> >
> > SAME RESULTS!! T21 still connects at 49.8 and the 600X still connects at
> > 26.8! WTH!!!
> >
> > Somebody help before the WinModem gets it!
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > James
> >
> > (Neither of my other 600Xs, which have been farmed out to the kids,
> > suffered from this malady.)
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