Extra modem reset since latest security update(s)

[Rick]

Has anyone else noticed an extra modem initialization since
installing the latest Win2K security updates?

I have an external modem and used to get two initializations,
one right at the beginning of Win2K boot and another during
Plug N Play load (when the blue progress bar is at about
halfway). Since loading the latest patches I'm now getting a
third initialization, immediately before the login dialog.

Anyone else notice this, or is it just my system?

Thanks,
Rick

 

[Steve N.]

Has anyone else noticed an extra modem initialization since
installing the latest Win2K security updates?

I have an external modem and used to get two initializations,
one right at the beginning of Win2K boot and another during
Plug N Play load (when the blue progress bar is at about
halfway). Since loading the latest patches I'm now getting a
third initialization, immediately before the login dialog.

Anyone else notice this, or is it just my system?

Thanks,
Rick

Are you sure you didn't also download and install any hardware driver
updates? I have an external modem but what I see is it initialize at
power-up and then again at Windows PnP detection, but not two init's
while Windows is booting and certainly not three inits. You might look
for driver updates from the manufacturer of the modem (NOT from M$).

This is not directly related but seems to indicate something wierd with
the way Win2K handles serial port resets... I've got a Zoom v.92
external (a few years old with recent drivers from manf) and it has
always had a different oddity running under Win2K - if I do a restart of
Windows it does not initialize correctly and it takes a full power-cycle
of both modem and computer for it to reset and the OS to see it. It does
this with any PC I've used it with and Win2K. I don't recall seeing this
behaviour when using it with Linux on any PC I've got.

Steve

 

[Rick]

Are you sure you didn't also download and install any hardware driver
updates? I have an external modem but what I see is it initialize at
power-up and then again at Windows PnP detection, but not two init's
while Windows is booting and certainly not three inits. You might look
for driver updates from the manufacturer of the modem (NOT from M$).

Nope, no driver update. At least there was no explicit drivers
in the patches I installed. They were all security patches.

If you have the /fastdetect switch in boot.ini you won't get that
first modem (or rather, port) initialization. I never got it either,
until I took out the /fastdetect option.

This is not directly related but seems to indicate something wierd with
the way Win2K handles serial port resets... I've got a Zoom v.92
external (a few years old with recent drivers from manf) and it has
always had a different oddity running under Win2K - if I do a restart of
Windows it does not initialize correctly and it takes a full power-cycle
of both modem and computer for it to reset and the OS to see it. It does
this with any PC I've used it with and Win2K. I don't recall seeing this
behaviour when using it with Linux on any PC I've got.

Almost certainly a driver issue. Have you asked Zoom about it?

Rick