I install and maintain DSL for the local phone compnay, and I came across a possessed computer.
The eu's dsl modem kept rebooting on it's own every 60 seconds. I've come across this before, but it was a bad power transformer. I swapped out the modem, the transformer, all to no avail.
I then hooked the modem up to my laptop, and had no problems. I sat there for about 20 minutes, and the modem never dropped out. Hooked the eu's computer back up, and sure enough, bing bang boom, dropped out.
My thinking, is that there is some software sending the signal to the modem shutting it off. i've never heard of this happening or seen it happen before. Has anyone else experienced this?
The only thing i did try, was shutting off the eu's Port Magic program, and all of the 20 million AOL programs running in the background. It seemed to work, but i rebooted the coputer to test it for the eu, and we were right back to square 1!
The eu's dsl modem kept rebooting on it's own every 60 seconds. I've come across this before, but it was a bad power transformer. I swapped out the modem, the transformer, all to no avail.
I then hooked the modem up to my laptop, and had no problems. I sat there for about 20 minutes, and the modem never dropped out. Hooked the eu's computer back up, and sure enough, bing bang boom, dropped out.
My thinking, is that there is some software sending the signal to the modem shutting it off. i've never heard of this happening or seen it happen before. Has anyone else experienced this?
The only thing i did try, was shutting off the eu's Port Magic program, and all of the 20 million AOL programs running in the background. It seemed to work, but i rebooted the coputer to test it for the eu, and we were right back to square 1!