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Chapter 17: Troubleshooting

■Make sure that your notebook is connected to the telephone line and the telephone line has a dial tone.

■Make sure that the modem cable is less than 6 feet (1.8 meters) long.

■Remove any line splitters or surge protectors from your telephone line, then check for a dial tone by plugging a working telephone into the telephone wall jack.

■If you have additional telephone services such as call waiting, call messaging, or voice mail, make sure that all messages are cleared and call waiting is disabled before using the modem. Contact your telephone service to get the correct code to temporarily disable the service. Also make sure that the modem dialing properties are set appropriately.

To check the dialing properties in Windows XP:

1 Click Start, then click Control Panel. The Control Panel window opens. If your Control Panel is in Category View, click Printers and Other Hardware.

2 Click/Double-click the Phone and Modem Options icon, then click the Dialing Rules tab.

3 Click the location from which you are dialing, then click Edit. 4 Make sure that all settings are correct.

Help and

Support

For more information about dialing properties in Windows XP, click Start, then click Help and Support.

Type the keyword dialing in the HelpSpot Search box , then click the arrow.

To check the dialing properties in Windows 2000:

1 Click Start, Settings, then click Control Panel. The Control Panel window opens.

2 Click/Double-click the Modems icon, then click Dialing Properties tab. The Dialing Properties dialog box opens.

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