Modem keeps phone line open

[hobbes2112]

I just got a Diamond Supra Express 56e SUP2730, from someone who got a new computer.

Anyway, when I have it plugged in it keeps the phone line open as if there were a phone off the hook. I have installed the drivers...as per the Diamond website, no luck.

Anyone had this problem? know how to fix?

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[FVEpiphone]

are you sure you have the phone lines plugged in correctly? they could be reversed. i remember back in the day on my p90, 14.4, i hooked up the phone lines backwards, could get on the net still, but had no phone

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[hobbes2112]

yeah I got em in correctly, the problem isn't simply that I can't use the phone next to the computer...it is that I not have a "phone off the hook" so the whole line is down.

this makes it hard to get a phone call, right?

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[LordOPain]

something to do with the driver or maybe sharing an irq/mem address...
see if you can allocate an irq for the modem in the bios..
maybe try uninstalling/reinstalling if all else fails..

[JTYoung1]

I used to have Diamond Supra Express modem that started doing the same thing. I hadn't changed anything in the computer so I figured the modem had just gone bad. I just got rid of it and bought an inexpensive modem.

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