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This is commonly an error in design or programming in a hardware device or piece of software. The effects of a bug may be as harmless as an extra graphic on the screen, or as harmful as a system crash or loss of data. The first computer "bug" was a real bug, a moth, in fact, that was stuck between relays back in an early computer in 1945. See also Feature
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Bug - Set the modems up to blind dial. Those strange beeping noises are avoice mail notification tone. Have the PBX tech to remove the voicemail from the lines if they are not needed.BudmannOn Fri, 07 Nov 2003 01:25:13 GMT, "Mike" wrote:I was just at an Office Building this evening, and they have 7 PC'sconnected through an Analog PBX system.Don't know much about the phone system, but 5 of the 7 PC's are unable toconnect through a shared AOL account using a shared dialup connection(archaic i know).They keep getting a "No dial tone error" when trying to connect throughAOL's dialer. I checked the modem properties on all PC's and ran diagnosticson all of them, and they all seem to check out fine.There were some init strings on a few of the PC's and i tried deleting themand still the same results.On a couple of the PC's there was a constant beeping noise along with thedialtone on the line when i hooked up one of the PBX phones and listen fordialtone. I was able to dial out, and the phone seemed to work o.k.Im kinda stumped here. I talked to the Communications company who installedthe phone system, and he said it has to be the PC's. I argued with him for alittle bit, and told him i would be taking one of the systems home to test.Well i plugged in my phone cable here at home and connected to AOL and myDialup ISP with no trouble.The Communications company is going to be sending someone out to check thewiring again, and had already been out at the request of the office manager,and they had told her nothing was wrong and that the modems all must havebeen bad on the 5 PC's.My thinking is that on the 2 PC's that work they both have modems that aredifferent from all the others.It may be that those two aren't as susceptible to what ever is going on withthe phone system, where as the other 5 are. There may very well be adifferent init string that may solve the problem but???I would think that there would be an easy way to just bypass the PBX withthe line that they are using for internet access, and just feed the jacksfor the 7 PC's directly.Any thoughts anyone?
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