From a cold boot, the dial-up connects just fine, but if she disconnects and later 
wants to re-connect, it gets right to the point where it is verifying the userID 
and password and then disconnects.  If she tries to connect again, same thing.  If 
she does a warm boot, same thing.  However, if she does a cold boot, it then connects 
just fine.  Something is apparently not resetting and only resets upon a cold boot. 
 I've tried everything I can think of with modem settings and nothing helps.  Any 
suggestions for another place to look would be greatly appreciated.  TIA

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re: Daughters eMachine dial-up Monday, May 28, 2007 at 4:09 pm Posted by dhm (990 messages posted) Call the ISP. This reminds me of the "fake connects" that my ISP sometimes gives me. I speculate that there is one server with the IDs and PWs and then it passes control to another one. The second server has crashed or become corrupted and is disconnecting you. My ISP gets me to a similar state where I appear to be connected but nothing comes back. The problem always clears up shortly after 8am Eastern Daylight Time when the people at the ISP's HQ start work for the day. On Saturday, May 26, 2007 at 7:55 pm, Pkg Man wrote: >From a cold boot, the dial-up connects just fine, but if she disconnects and later >wants to re-connect, it gets right to the point where it is verifying the userID >and password and then disconnects. If she tries to connect again, same thing. If >she does a warm boot, same thing. However, if she does a cold boot, it then connects >just fine. Something is apparently not resetting and only resets upon a cold boot. > I've tried everything I can think of with modem settings and nothing helps. Any >suggestions for another place to look would be greatly appreciated. TIA [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Daughters eMachine dial-up Monday, May 28, 2007 at 5:16 pm Posted by gewg_ (3925 messages posted) |dial-up[...]gets right to the point where it is verifying the userID and password |and then disconnects | Pkg Man | dhm covered the *shared hardware with unique responsibilities* thing pretty well. |[...]if she does a cold boot, it then connects just fine. | I think you are interpolating more than the evidence suggest. My list of culprits: 1) In this instance, you have accessed a crappy modem at your ISP. Bad luck--nothing more. Try again. If it happens a lot, bitch to them about it. 2) There is a flakey connection at your end. Work the connector of each end of the cable between your modem to the wall jack in and out several times to knock off any corrosion/crud. 3) You connected thru a flakey switch in the telco's central office. Bad luck--nothing more. Try again. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Daughters eMachine dial-up Monday, May 28, 2007 at 9:13 pm Posted by Douglas (10 messages posted) I disagree with the last posts. This sounds like an AOL thing to me. Is AOL your ISP? I had that problem with AOL on a Windows 98 machine. I dont use dial up but I do have an AOL account. So if this is your case, the problem is with the AOL software not "releasing" from the initial connection. Best way I know to describe it. My solution: Try a newer version of the software. If this is not an option, whenever you're ready to reconnect, open task manager, close everything that has anything to do with AOL listed in running processes. Now open AOL and dial in. IIRC doing this a few times will ultimately (for some unknown reason) solve your problem permanently. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum