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Try getting the latest Mwave drivers. The current version is 2.24, I suspect that what you have is the first edition of the 28.8 mwave modem drivers which were quite buggy. On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Adam Britton wrote: > Dear Thinkpad users, > > Greetings. I've just subscribed, and have been asked in the introductory > email to introduce myself. OK, I have a Thinkpad 760ED which was purchased > in the UK, but which I'm now using out here in Darwin, Australia. I spent a > lot of time checking up different laptops before I left the UK, and > narrowed the choice down to a Toshiba Tecra and my Thinkpad. After asking a > number of people, and communicating myself with both IBM and Toshiba, there > was no contest! > > It's a 130MHz with 32Mb RAM, 2.1Gb disk, running Windows 95. So far, I'm > extremely > pleased with it (since the end of February). I use it for a variety of > things, including word processing, statistical analysis, internet access > and web design, image scanning and manipulation, sound acquisition and > analysis, emulation, and even the odd game. I've got a TDK DF2814 V.34 > PCMCIA modem installed, which appears to work pretty well - although I get > some problems with hibernation and suspend mode when the card is present. > I've also got an Adaptec APA1460 SCSI PCMCIA card which I use to run my > Microtek scanner from. > > Problems? I'm afraid to say I have. For a start, I installed Direct X 3.0 a > while back, and while it seems to work fine, ever since I did so all sounds > played through MWave produce a 'click' prior to playback. It's most > annoying. Someone in comp.sys.laptops suggested messing with the buffer > size in the system.ini file, but that hasn't helped. Other problems are > more serious, but harder to pin down, such as occasional crashing (mmtask > appears to be responsible for this - [not responding]). The most recent > problem which is highly annoying is that since I tried to install the > adaptec drivers for the SCSI card, something now crashes every time the > computer tries to resume following a suspend. Eventually, I had to use > Win95 drivers rather than the adaptec ones (which were supposed to be Win95 > compatible, AND tested on a Thinkpad) to get the card to work. Any ideas > why, every time I leave suspend mode, I get a blue screen with the words: > "A fatal exception 0E has occurred at 0028:C10094AB in VXD APIX(01) + > 000008A3" > > Ugh! The only clue is that when I next try and use the modem or the > scanner, I'm told they're either "in use" (modem) or "not connected" > (scanner) and only a windows reboot will fix things. :( > > I'd like to get my Thinkpad working as normal again, because when it works > fine it's great. It's just very annoying to remember, juuuust as it's going > into suspend mode, that when I open the screen again it's going to crash > messily. I can still retrieve the work I was doing, but it blanks the > screen so I have to work invisibly until an application causes a screen > redraw. > > Any help whatsoever would be appreciated. > > Adam > > -- > Dr. Adam Britton | crocodilian@ibm.net > Crocodile Research | Wildlife Management Intl. > > >