Port open!

[RedFury]

I've just started having an really annoying problem that started yesterday. My modem will go to dial up and immediatley disconnect and say that I need to check my phone connection, etc ( error 630 ).

This happened out of the blue. I check the modem diagnostics and it says that the port is open. Even after I restart, it says the port is open. The only way I could get online was to remove and reinstall the drivers for the modem ( us Robotics ). Now, day two, same dang thing! I can't find anything that is necessarily wrong, and since it just happened, can't figure out what I could have done recently to change anything that would affect it.

Once I get up and running again ( like right now ) it works like always. Any ideas what to check, or do? I'm going to run Win98se's Dr. Watson and see if that shows anything.

[GroundZero3]

http://help.earthlink.net/techsuppor...2138.help.html

[GroundZero3]

or http://support.microsoft.com/default...EN-US;Q227995&

[RedFury]

interesting, I have no Accessiblity options in my control panel at all!

[RedFury]

I do now, I never installed it when I installed windows this time. I wonder if/why that would cause a problem this far into use.

[fatal xception]

I have always had luck disabling everything in MSCONFIG. Don't ask why, but that has happened to me a couple of times.

[RedFury]

Well, no luck so far. Dr. Watson didn't find anything, and it works sometimes just rebooting. I read something about a problem that was solved by multi reboots on occasion ( not fixed, just worked after ), but don't remember the solution.