Help silence my modem!

[Emily]

I hate the sound modems make, and want to silence my
modem. With my old system, I did this by going to 3
different screens and asking for silence. Now I cannot
remember where all those screens are. I mean, who needs to
hear that annoying sound, anyway.
Help, anyone?

 

[Frankie]

Get inside the case and unplug the little speaker
(attatched to the case somewhere usually by 3 metal tabs)
from the motherboard. I have a cable modem now but
before when I did have dial up thats what I did. I hated
that sound also. Hope this helps.

 

[Kelly]

Hi Emily,

Go to Start/Control Panel/Phone and Modem/Modems/
Properties/Advanced/ExtraModem/Modems/Properties/Advanced/Extra
initialization commands and type in: M0 (note: that is a zero, not the
letter O).

Control Panel/Phone and Modem Options/Modems Tab/Properties/Modem/Speaker
volume.

/top10faqs.htm

 

[Steve C. Ray]

DO NOT do this! That is the system speaker, not the modem speaker.

 

[Emily]

OK. I have done the Kelly method, with software. However,
when I went to log off, "helpful" AOL offered an update,
which promises to take all evening! Why did I say YES? I
have 8.0, are they giving me 9.0? NOOOOO please!
I will test the Kelly modem silencing results tomorrow (I
hope...)

 

[Emily]

I wish I knew why this method did not work, but it didn't.

 

[Kelly]

Not sure, Emily. Good luck!

/top10faqs.htm

 

[Les Herrman]

I wish I knew why this method did not work, but it didn't.

See your post in the General group.

There I outlined how to shut off the modem speaker in AOL.

 

[Emily]

Les, that is one thing I have not tried. Thanks.
Have put away the scissors, somewhat reluctantly.

 

[Emily]

Bravo, Les!

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Les, that is one thing I have not tried. Thanks.
Have put away the scissors, somewhat reluctantly.

Emily

You are posting many messages here with a different subject line that are
not connected to the original message that you are replying to? This orphans
the message from the original thread. Nobody really knows what message you
are replying to and what your message means?

When you reply to a message, use the Reply button and not the new message
button. This will include the original message and you can type in your
reply. Don't change the subject of the message.
--
Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

Please reply to the newsgroup so all may benefit.
Unsolicited e-mail is not answered.

 

[Les Herrman]

Bravo, Les!

You are most welcome Emily.

 

[Frank]

Emily wrote:

| I hate the sound modems make, and want to silence my
| modem. With my old system, I did this by going to 3
| different screens and asking for silence. Now I cannot
| remember where all those screens are. I mean, who needs to
| hear that annoying sound, anyway.
| Help, anyone?

I don't like that sound either. I leave mine on so that if by
some chance a dialer installs on my machine I can hear
it dialing out. This has happened to me after my teenage
nephews were on my machine.

 

[Rich/rerat]

Emily,
Control Panel (use Classic View- it is easier in my view)> Phone & Modem Options> Modem tab> Select Modem> Properties button> Modem tab> Under Speaker Volume> Move Slider to the left to turn off modem speaker.

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Emily wrote:

| I hate the sound modems make, and want to silence my
| modem. With my old system, I did this by going to 3
| different screens and asking for silence. Now I cannot
| remember where all those screens are. I mean, who needs to
| hear that annoying sound, anyway.
| Help, anyone?

I don't like that sound either. I leave mine on so that if by
some chance a dialer installs on my machine I can hear
it dialing out. This has happened to me after my teenage
nephews were on my machine.