Hi everybody! Here goes: I'm having trouble connecting to the internet with my toshiba satellite a70 laptop. LAN and wirelessLAN connections have worked perfectly previously. However dialup connection doesn't. The modem is recognized and labeled as functionnonig perfectly in the device manager. But when connecting, there is not even any dialtone and immediately, an error message #633 jumps up. Th problem is somehow related to the COM ports I think. The interactive troubleshooter points toward this. Can anybody help me on? The most suspiscious flaw I have found sofar is the following: the modem is set to port 4 (ports 1 and 3 are in use). The troubleshooter says to go and check if the prt is correctly activated under the port section in the device manager. The port section however only indicates an lpt printer port... I have updated the drivers from the toshiba support site (file= sa70mdmx.zip) without any results). I should be grateful for any suggestions whatsoever. Thanks in advance
Hi, Sorry, I'm not too much of a technical genius, but there are: One large printer COM port. And a similar port but the small one (like the old mice used to use). Otherwise none (=laptop). P.S.: the modem is internal.
the printer doesn't use a com port but a parallel port so 1 of the 2 com ports is actually the modem but misconfigured to show as com 4. i think the modem is com 3.
I see. I tried Port 3 allready, allthough it was allready in use. That didn't solve the problem. Does this make any difference? I thought you could assign any virtual port. Especially since it's internal hardware it doesn't rely on exterior physical ports!? As afore mentionned, I'm no technical ace... I'm now proceeding to trying ports 1 and 2. (1 is also in use - I hope I'm not going to bugger something up!). There are something like 47 virtual ports!
Ok! I don't get it: I just randomly retryed the dialup from my laptop and it worked! I checked which port I had set it to last time and it turned out to be port 4. This was the port it was assigned to by default; it didn't work in the first place though?..? I can'remember having made any other influential changes to the settings. Computers will alway remain something very mysterious to until I actually build my own from scratch and know what is going on beneath the surface... While we're at it, could somebody please give me some feedback on ports: why does it matter which port you assign an internal hardware to, since the hardware is connected to the cpu over internal connections? Also: The troubleshooter told me there may be another program using the port. What type could this be?: I've got two seperate messengers and and paltalk. Do such programs monopolize ports? Ok, sorry for the long jabber. Maybe some of you might find it fun to teach me some stuff here Thanks, these forums are great and alway make me solve my problems!
