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As soon as your modem starts to dial your
ISP's telephone number, the minute it makes contact the modem starts screeching
and wailing as if it is in pain. This can be extremely irritating. Fortunately
it is easy to stop.
1/ Click the Start button
2/ In the Start menu click Control Panel
3/ In Control panel click the Phone and Modem icon
4/ The phone and modem options window opens.
5/ Click the Modem tab and then click the
Properties button at the base of the window
6/ In the Modem Properties window click the
Advanced tab
7/In the advanced tab window a dialog box called
Extra Initialisation Commands should be visible.
8/ In this box type: M0 (the 0 being Zero)
9/ Click OK to exit
10 You can also use the volume control on the Modem
tab in the modem properties window to turn off the modem speaker
An alternative is as follows: This is for PC with
Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) installed.
1/ Click the Start button
2/ On the Start menu click Control
panel
3/ In the Control panel click the Network
Connection Icon
4/ Right Click on the Dial Up Connection icon
for your ISP
5/ From the drop down menu select Properties
6/ In the Properties window you will see a section
marked Connect Using. Below this will be details of your modem
7/ Click the Configure button
8/ The modem configuration window will now open
9/ Near the bottom of the window you will see an option
marked Enable Modem Speaker. There should be a tick mark inside
the box on the left of this option
10/ To Disable the modem speaker simply
remove the tick mark, Click OK then Exit all other open
windows.
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