On Jul 1, 2010, at 6:36 AM, Gary Sucher wrote: > >Have you thrown out the fax settings and the modem prefs (if any?) > > >What happens if you dial your voice line ...does it even try to > >>connect...if it does you'll hear the fax noises. > > -- > Bruce Johnson > University of Arizona > > >What FAX software are you using? > > John Carmonne > Yorba Linda USA > > > I have not tried to toss the settings and prefs yet but I will try that next. > Thanks! > > If I dial my voice line, the phone rings. If I pick it up, I hear a slow > beeping like the fax is waiting to hear a signal from the phone/fax it > called. However when I dial a real fax machine it still does not work. > > I'm using the software supplied by Apple. I'm not in front of the computer > now (writing this from work), but it's whatever came with the computer + any > system upgrades to 10.4.11. > > Thanks, > Gary > > >Gary Sucher <gsuc...@gmail.com> Jun 28 09:48AM -0400 ^ > > Hi all. Perhaps you can help me. I have a 2003 single 1.25ghz MDD running > Tiger 10.4.11. There's the internal Apple v.92 'Dash 2' modem, and Apple > software. I get online via ethernet so I use the modem only for faxing a > couple times a year. At some point, a year or 2 ago, I realized I could not > fax out (I do that only once a year or 2), but could continue to receive > faxes. > > The indicator says "dialing", then it hangs up. The fax goes to 'hold' and > tries again in 5 minutes unless I cancel it. I have a dedicated line so I > 'faxed' to my other phone. It did ring, and I picked it up to listen to the > sound. My fax just 'beeped' every few seconds, but there was no whining > 'faxing' sound. > > I looked around the web and only occasionly saw people with similar > problems, but with no definitive answers. Just helpful suggestions such as, > 'get an external fax machine', and 'email your documents instead'. > > Anyone have the same problem or, better, a solution? > > Thanks in advance, > Gary This may sound dumb but go to the print and Fax pane in the system prefs and turn off "receive fax on this machine" and reboot and see if that fixes it> Also toss all the plist and prefs. You're peeing in the tide till you do.
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