Pcs fax modem answers all calls

The problem is that if the default has been set to auto-answer in the
modem's NVRAM, your solution will only work until the system is
rebooted, when he will have to do it again. If that is the problem,
the NVRAM setting has to be changed, the method of doing which is
somewhat hardware dependent.

On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 15:42:57 GMT, "Earl F. Parrish"
<efparri@nowhere.world> wrote:

>
>"Tony Cross" <tonycross@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
>news:0e2701c3462c$afbcfed0$a501280a@phx.gbl...

>> Windows Xp and Word both show NO FAX installed and yet
>> when the phone rings the PC is trying to receive a fax. I
>> can find nop trace of any fax facility havingbeen
>> installed. It is not shown on the Control Panel, in
>> Device Manager or anywhere else. the only way I can
>> sol;ve this problem is to unplug the phone line! this
>> means I cannot use the PC to dial out calls. I have a
>> seperate fax machi9ne and do not want my PC to have a fax
>> sending or receiving facility.
>> This problem occurs when the PC is on and no other
>> programs are runing!

>
>The fax program does not answer the telephone. Some program has
>instructed the modem to go offhook after a certain number of rings.
>This is a mechanical phenomenon. Use HyperTerminal to send the
>following command to the modem:
>"ATS0=0" without the quotes. Those are zeroes in the command
>string. This should turn off auto-answer.

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"Peter R. Fletcher" <pfletch@fletchers-uk.com> wrote in message
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> The problem is that if the default has been set to auto-answer in

the

> modem's NVRAM, your solution will only work until the system is
> rebooted, when he will have to do it again. If that is the

problem,

> the NVRAM setting has to be changed, the method of doing which is
> somewhat hardware dependent.
>

That is how you set auto-answer by writing to the S-Register. The
modem S-Register settings are independent of the computer booting
process. The settings will stay the same until they are changed.
Re-read your modem manual.

--
Earl F. Parrish

No, you reread yours, or at least one describing a recent midrange
modem, with particular reference to the ATZn, AT&Fn, AT&Wn, AT&Yn, and
AT&Zn commands.

S-registers are generally reset to their default values on a power
cycle or a hardware reboot. If the defaults are loaded from a stored
profile that has been modified to include a non-zero value for S0, S0
will be non-zero when you power up or restart, whatever you had set it
to before. S-Registers had to be volatile in early modems, where their
settings were held in on-board RAM and reloaded from ROM at power up,
but the behaviour has been retained, presumably for consistency, in
more modern ones which do have NVRAM and could theoretically save the
register settings if they wanted to.


On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 13:18:54 GMT, "Earl F. Parrish"
<efparri@nowhere.world> wrote:

>
>"Peter R. Fletcher" <pfletch@fletchers-uk.com> wrote in message
>newsg3qgvs71cdhncgu6soa3dt1m54rrrpb2a@4ax.com.. .

>> The problem is that if the default has been set to auto-answer in

>the

>> modem's NVRAM, your solution will only work until the system is
>> rebooted, when he will have to do it again. If that is the

>problem,

>> the NVRAM setting has to be changed, the method of doing which is
>> somewhat hardware dependent.
>>

>That is how you set auto-answer by writing to the S-Register. The
>modem S-Register settings are independent of the computer booting
>process. The settings will stay the same until they are changed.
>Re-read your modem manual.

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"Peter R. Fletcher" <pfletch@fletchers-uk.com> wrote in message
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> No, you reread yours, or at least one describing a recent midrange
> modem, with particular reference to the ATZn, AT&Fn, AT&Wn, AT&Yn,

and

> AT&Zn commands.
>
> S-registers are generally reset to their default values on a power
> cycle or a hardware reboot. If the defaults are loaded from a

stored

> profile that has been modified to include a non-zero value for S0,

S0

> will be non-zero when you power up or restart, whatever you had

set it

> to before. S-Registers had to be volatile in early modems, where

their

> settings were held in on-board RAM and reloaded from ROM at power

up,

> but the behaviour has been retained, presumably for consistency,

in

> more modern ones which do have NVRAM and could theoretically save

the

> register settings if they wanted to.
>
>

Do you really think the original poster has setup stored profiles
when he does not even know how to turn off auto-answer? You are
unnecessarily complicating a simple operation.

--
Earl F. Parrish

Are you sure that it is answering in Fax (rather than Data) mode? Have
you got any data communications/remote control software loaded? Is
your computer set up to allow dial-in logins?

Make sure also that the modem is not set up to wake up the computer,
either in BIOS or in its XP properties.

If the answer to all these questions is no, the modem may have been
set up in its NVRAM to default to auto-answer. Post again, with
hardware details of the modem, and I will try to ake you though
deprogramming it.

On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 08:13:43 -0700, "Tony Cross"
<tonycross@ntlworld.com> wrote:

>Windows Xp and Word both show NO FAX installed and yet
>when the phone rings the PC is trying to receive a fax. I
>can find nop trace of any fax facility havingbeen
>installed. It is not shown on the Control Panel, in
>Device Manager or anywhere else. the only way I can
>sol;ve this problem is to unplug the phone line! this
>means I cannot use the PC to dial out calls. I have a
>seperate fax machi9ne and do not want my PC to have a fax
>sending or receiving facility.
>This problem occurs when the PC is on and no other
>programs are runing!

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