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Maybe Appletalk is turned on- check for this in the chooser & turn it off if
necessary.

Greg Sigman
In article <Atomik-ya023280001011961156370001@news.greatbasin.net>, Atomik@Area51.reno.nv.us (Atomik) writes:
>   A couple of days ago, when I tried connecting to my ISP, I got an error
>message stating that the serial port was in use. I thought this was strange
>because everything worked fine the night before, so I thought powering down
>and booting back up would help... it didn't, so I thought it may be caused
>by a corrupted modem extension (since I get an ample amount of system
>crashes and reboots). So I reinstalled my Global Village Teleport software
>and tried rebooting, but to no avail. When I did restart, as soon as I got
>to the finder screen, I got a system bomb message saying it was caused by
>my HP Printer Background extension. I booted off the system disk and
>reinstalled my HP software and restarted.... and once again to no avail. 
>   Then I decided, "Hey, why not reinstall the system software?" So I
>reinstalled the system software... to no avail. Then I thought that some
>files in my system folder were causing some software conflicts that I could
>not detect, so I installed the system software on my external hard drive,
>installed my modem software on that, and restarted.... NOTHING! The same
>thing error message was displayed, and I was back where I started. Then I
>tried connecting my modem to my printer port, and to my surprise, it worked
>(after I reconfigured the settings on its control panel)! I connected my
>printer to my modem port, and received the same error as when I had the
>modem connected to it. 
>   So, I came to the conclusion that this must be some kind of hardware
>problem, but I have no idea what caused it nor what to do about it... how
>much does it cost to fix? I'm not sure if this will help, but when I opened
>up my computer (PPC 6100/60av), the little boxes which were the printer and
>modem ports seemed to have some dried stuff on it (it looked like dried
>salt water or something like that...) I have no idea what this stuff is,
>nor have I ever spilled any liquids on my Mac. I've never had problems as
>serious nor as nerve-wracking as this since I purchased my Mac two years
>ago. Help is much appreciated!!
>
>Pat Lee
>
>-- 
>Pat Lee