Dial Up Problem

(I know that some of you are annoyed by cross-posted messages, I will
probably cross-post this one, albeit in separate postings, I've got to get
to the bottom of this)

Hello again,

A customer of mine is having a sporadic, yet persistent, problem. When the
problem is in force, he cannot disconnect, unless he shuts the computer
down. Then, upon reboot, he will attempt to connect; he does NOT connect,
yet if he right-clicks on the dial-up icon, the menu displays "Disconnect",
as if the OS "thinks" that he is connected. Sometimes, the shortcut for
dialup that is on the desktop disappears; sometimes, the shortcut that is in
the tray disappears. Also, I was unable to see the Windows Firewall.
Obviously, the connection is "confused".

OS: Windows XP HE SP2, newly re-installed, as of 3 weeks ago.

I've tried several different modems, to no avail.

Modem first connects through a UPS, then goes to a splitter, which also
accomodates a standard telephone. My first thought was, it's the UPS,
disconnected from the UPS, did not solve problem. My second thought was,
it's the splitter; I went direct to the telephone port, still did not solve
the problem.

Some of the error messages that I saw while trying to work through this:

1) "Cannot save password. Error 621: The system could not open the phone
book file"

2) "Unable to create the specified connection. This can be caused by
insufficient memory or not enough disk space"

3) "Windows Firewall settings cannot be displayed"

4) "Windows cannot start the Windows Firewall/ICS service"

5) "Cannot load dialup. Error 1727: The remote procedure call failed and
did not execute"

Customer does not game, gamble, share music or view pornography.

Yesterday, after researching this problem, and arming myself with what I
thought would be enough information to fix this problem (most specifically,
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article ID 254631, which advises to ensure that
certain network-related services are enabled and on) , I went over to his
place. The problem had gone away, by itself. No problem connecting,
disconnecting, able to see and change firewall settings. He gave me a
check, and off I went.

He just called and told me that the problem is back.

Has anybody seen this, or properly repaired it?

Thanks, in advance.

smackedass


--
Kema Computer Consulting
Kenneth E. Newton, Proprietor
P.O. Box 791
Harwich Port, MA 02646

smackedass

> A customer of mine is having a sporadic, yet persistent, problem. When the
> problem is in force, he cannot disconnect, unless he shuts the computer
> down. Then, upon reboot, he will attempt to connect; he does NOT connect,
> yet if he right-clicks on the dial-up icon, the menu displays "Disconnect",
> as if the OS "thinks" that he is connected. Sometimes, the shortcut for
> dialup that is on the desktop disappears; sometimes, the shortcut that is in
> the tray disappears. Also, I was unable to see the Windows Firewall.
> Obviously, the connection is "confused".

I can't imagine how the phone system would prevent the modem from
hanging up, so my guess is a bad DUN service or driver or something.
That's no help, so maybe try posting this at
microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware.

And don't forget to share the answer.

-John O

JohnO

> And don't forget to share the answer.
>
> -John O
>

Oh, I won't, don't worry

sa

smackedass

did you run a full addware et scan
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:46:50 GMT, "smackedass"
<> wrote:

>
>(I know that some of you are annoyed by cross-posted messages, I will
>probably cross-post this one, albeit in separate postings, I've got to get
>to the bottom of this)
>
>Hello again,
>
>A customer of mine is having a sporadic, yet persistent, problem. When the
>problem is in force, he cannot disconnect, unless he shuts the computer
>down. Then, upon reboot, he will attempt to connect; he does NOT connect,
>yet if he right-clicks on the dial-up icon, the menu displays "Disconnect",
>as if the OS "thinks" that he is connected. Sometimes, the shortcut for
>dialup that is on the desktop disappears; sometimes, the shortcut that is in
>the tray disappears. Also, I was unable to see the Windows Firewall.
>Obviously, the connection is "confused".
>
>OS: Windows XP HE SP2, newly re-installed, as of 3 weeks ago.
>
>I've tried several different modems, to no avail.
>
>Modem first connects through a UPS, then goes to a splitter, which also
>accomodates a standard telephone. My first thought was, it's the UPS,
>disconnected from the UPS, did not solve problem. My second thought was,
>it's the splitter; I went direct to the telephone port, still did not solve
>the problem.
>
>Some of the error messages that I saw while trying to work through this:
>
>1) "Cannot save password. Error 621: The system could not open the phone
>book file"
>
>2) "Unable to create the specified connection. This can be caused by
>insufficient memory or not enough disk space"
>
>3) "Windows Firewall settings cannot be displayed"
>
>4) "Windows cannot start the Windows Firewall/ICS service"
>
>5) "Cannot load dialup. Error 1727: The remote procedure call failed and
>did not execute"
>
>Customer does not game, gamble, share music or view pornography.
>
>Yesterday, after researching this problem, and arming myself with what I
>thought would be enough information to fix this problem (most specifically,
>Microsoft Knowledge Base Article ID 254631, which advises to ensure that
>certain network-related services are enabled and on) , I went over to his
>place. The problem had gone away, by itself. No problem connecting,
>disconnecting, able to see and change firewall settings. He gave me a
>check, and off I went.
>
>He just called and told me that the problem is back.
>
>Has anybody seen this, or properly repaired it?
>
>Thanks, in advance.
>
>smackedass
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