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February 10th, 2005, 12:27 PM
#1
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Starting when phone rings
WinXP Pro. NEW PC. 256RAM, AMD 3200+ CPU. NO Broadband. ONLY Dial-up internet.
When ever someone calls his house. His computer starts up. The only way to stop it is unplug it.
What ya got for that?
PS...I love this forum!!
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February 10th, 2005, 12:37 PM
#2
Registered User
Originally Posted by zz28
WinXP Pro. NEW PC. 256RAM, AMD 3200+ CPU. NO Broadband. ONLY Dial-up internet.
When ever someone calls his house. His computer starts up. The only way to stop it is unplug it.
What ya got for that?
PS...I love this forum!!
Disable Wake On Lan in the bios to start with.
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February 10th, 2005, 12:37 PM
#3
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I'm not familiar with this on modems, but it sounds like a wake/on option in the modem, or motherboard. May be accessible in the system BIOS, or properties for the modem in Windows. I've never played with something like this myself...so it’s just a guess…
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February 10th, 2005, 12:40 PM
#4
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I should have mentioned this in the 1st post. I have already disable the "wake on LAN" in the BIOS.
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February 10th, 2005, 01:11 PM
#5
Registered User
There's got to be a wake on modem option somewhere in the bios. Power mgmt perhaps?
Probability factor of one to one...we have normality, I repeat we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.
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February 10th, 2005, 01:15 PM
#6
Registered User
Had this exact fault on a customer (Compaq Presario) machine about a year back!!
Turned out to be a fault in the (AMR) modem - replaced with a hardware one & all was well.
I guess that the modem was putting a feed / earth somewhere when the ring voltage appeared on the line.
Incidentally this machine would also shut down (properly!!) if the phone rang while it was switched on as well.... as if the user had momentarily pressed the power button!
John
Now where did I leave my Lump Hammer?
"I thought I was wrong once" - "But I was wrong"
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February 10th, 2005, 06:26 PM
#7
Registered User
Originally Posted by Atodini
Had this exact fault on a customer (Compaq Presario) machine about a year back!!
Turned out to be a fault in the (AMR) modem - replaced with a hardware one & all was well.
I guess that the modem was putting a feed / earth somewhere when the ring voltage appeared on the line.
Incidentally this machine would also shut down (properly!!) if the phone rang while it was switched on as well.... as if the user had momentarily pressed the power button!
John
Great suggestion Atondini. It could very well be that the modem is defective and the ring of the phone line is causing it to GROUND someplace. Will try that.
Will let everyone know. THANKS
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