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Thread ID: 77973	2007-03-29 08:58:00	modem wont disconnect	toddg (12057)	Press F1

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536765	2007-03-29 08:58:00	hi I have an Agere modem in an HP a1060a and starting yesterday it decided to notdisconnect when asked/told via the connection icon down the bottom right of the screen. Additionally the connection icon has stopped displaying/lighting up the active connection and says it has sent and received 0 packets. I'm running up to date Norton AV. Help. Thanks. PS. I get a message when trying to disconnect which says: Error Disconnecting. It is not possible to disconnect at this time. The connection is currently busy with a connect or disconnect operation.	toddg (12057)
536766	2007-03-29 09:21:00	Ditch Nortons and get an AV thats less of a hog. DO a spyware scan too.	pctek (84)
536767	2007-03-29 15:41:00	I had this modem-won't-disconnect when the modem and the sound card were both using the same IRQ.... Now...and I got nasty arguments about the possibility of this happening... when I played with the IRQs and got rid of Norton's, the problem went away... Seems that sound cards is not normally toggled off until the computer is shut down (end-run routine) and this is normal..... but then this bogus IRQ command is keeping the modem running under the same rule..and this might be setting up a precise interrupt. I personally believe that Nortons sets up a small interrupt storm during shut down whereby everything loses it's priority...especially the modem and soundcard. I haven't proved this...but I have seen it enough times to be very suspect that this is the true case. Some people never have this problem...but it IS out there for others. I also believe Norton and modems and sound cards dislike each other...I, on the other hand dislike Norton/Symantec/McAfee too.	SurferJoe46 (51)
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