Need Help with Com3 Port (modem not working)

[Mehdi]

hmm.. nothing seems to happen!
restarting again!

 

[brady]

you don't have any kind of weird errors on boot up right ?
Its letting you login fine ?
How about hardware profiles ? do you have more than one ?

 

[Mehdi]

nope!
not working!
any other ideas?!

 

[Mehdi]

only one profile and i can login fine!
is there actually no application that can monitor a port which is already being used?!

 

[Mehdi]

so any other ideas?!

 

[EricB]

I've had some computers that had SP2 I had work on, that just screwed up the connections of the telephone modem. I usually reinstall sp1 (in 1 case I reinstall win 98) and the problem would go away.

but Mehdi, you have not answered this question. did you enable your telephone modem in the bios? as much as I read through this post, this seem like this is your problem.

 

[brady]

The problem is that the COM3 port uses the same interrupts as other com ports and IRQ's. you can try to find a port sniffer but good luck finding one without spy/adware.

There are a TON of problems with this toshiba internal modem.
If you search "COM3 internal modem issues" and strings like that you will find a bunch of people that are having similar problems like yours.

 

[Mehdi]

Eric. i don't get it. what do you mean by enabling modem in bios?
this modem was already working... well before i uninstalled it atleast!
and i have upgraded the bios after this problem! so i don't think there is anything wrong with the bios!
Brady, i know some other people have this same problem! but there must be something that can be done!
or i'd have to either uninstall Sp2 or re format!! (pain in the A**)

 

[brady]

This worked after you installed sp2 right ?

 

[Mehdi]

yes it worked for about 2 month!