Old dial up modem problem

[Jaffa]

I just put win XP on a m8s mothers pc but she only uses a dial up modem (v90), anyway XP detected and installed the modem (com3), i manually set up the internet connection but when i click on "connect" im getting a "no dial tone" error. I can hear the modem click on and then click off again and have run a diagnostic in device manager which says the pc communicated with the modem.

The telephone is connected in the same way as it was before i did the upgrade and it definitely was working.

Any ideas please?

[burner1]

Long time since I diag'd dial up probs, but from memory, it really sounds like a cable problem.. as in cable from modem to wall socket.. The click you hear is indeed windows sending the AT command, but as the modem doens't detect a dial tone from the cable, it times out and closes connection, hence the error.

[Doctor Who]

have you tried changing the com port to 2 from 3

have you gone into advanced on the dial connection window and checked that its using that modem as default for dialing out

[inspectercoley]

XP drivers are not good for modems, try installing the drivers it came with if possible