Can it answer the phone?

[Guest]

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My motherboard and power supply died yesterday via power surge and
fried together, leaving me bereaved.

I have to get a new one.

I want to buy a Soyo KT600 Dragon V2.0 Socket A Barebone Kit / AMD
Sempron 2800+ / Silver Tower Case / 350 Watt Power Supply.

It seems to be what I want as far as being a multi-media pc but can it
answer the phone while I'm out?

The specs talk about a LAN Wake-up feature but nothing about a modem.
Does it come with a modem and if so is the modem voice/data/fax?

I have a Creative modem blaster v.92 PCI card. If I install this modem
card into the motherboard, will it be able to record voice messages?

Let me know.

thanx,
spark-e :roll:

 

[TomC]

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Yes, your Creative modem can enable your computer to act as an answering
machine.

The motherboard feature you describe is called "wake on modem" " or "wake on
ring". That mobo probably has it, but your modem almost certainly does not.
Last time I checked, "wake on modem" worked only with external modems.

Since your callers aren't going to want to wait for your computer to
complete booting before they can leave messages, the feature wouldn't do you
much good anyway. You will probably need to keep your computer on at all
times, with the power settings to "always on".

Using your computer as an answering machine is sort of like using it as a
fax. The idea sounds good at first, then you spend time setting it up, and
you find that it sometimes works OK but sometimes not, and it is not
convenient, and in the end you just buy a separate answering machine and
fax.

Tom







"spark-e" <patrick@dillydrop-dot-com.no-spam.invalid> wrote in message
news:6ba0c$42671a43$455da0d2$20579@allthenewsgroups.com...
> My motherboard and power supply died yesterday via power surge and
> fried together, leaving me bereaved.
>
> I have to get a new one.
>
> I want to buy a Soyo KT600 Dragon V2.0 Socket A Barebone Kit / AMD
> Sempron 2800+ / Silver Tower Case / 350 Watt Power Supply.
>
> It seems to be what I want as far as being a multi-media pc but can it
> answer the phone while I'm out?
>
> The specs talk about a LAN Wake-up feature but nothing about a modem.
> Does it come with a modem and if so is the modem voice/data/fax?
>
> I have a Creative modem blaster v.92 PCI card. If I install this modem
> card into the motherboard, will it be able to record voice messages?
>
> Let me know.
>
> thanx,
> spark-e :roll:
>

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.soyo (More info?)

Thanks for the reply. I usually keep the 'puter on all day anyway so
it might as well answer the phone while I'm gone considering my
erratic schedule.

I will buy it today, confident that there is a support group here to
help me out when I'm in doubt.

Thanx for being here. 😛

spark-e

 

[TomC]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.soyo (More info?)

Yes, your Creative modem can enable your computer to act as an answering
machine.

The motherboard feature you describe is called "wake on modem" " or "wake on
ring". That mobo probably has it, but your modem almost certainly does not.
Last time I checked, "wake on modem" worked only with external modems.

Since your callers aren't going to want to wait for your computer to
complete booting before they can leave messages, the feature wouldn't do you
much good anyway. You will probably need to keep your computer on at all
times, with the power settings to "always on".

Using your computer as an answering machine is sort of like using it as a
fax. The idea sounds good at first, then you spend time setting it up, and
you find that it sometimes works OK but sometimes not, and it is not
convenient, and in the end you just buy a separate answering machine and
fax.

Tom







"spark-e" <patrick@dillydrop-dot-com.no-spam.invalid> wrote in message
news:6ba0c$42671a43$455da0d2$20579@allthenewsgroups.com...
> My motherboard and power supply died yesterday via power surge and
> fried together, leaving me bereaved.
>
> I have to get a new one.
>
> I want to buy a Soyo KT600 Dragon V2.0 Socket A Barebone Kit / AMD
> Sempron 2800+ / Silver Tower Case / 350 Watt Power Supply.
>
> It seems to be what I want as far as being a multi-media pc but can it
> answer the phone while I'm out?
>
> The specs talk about a LAN Wake-up feature but nothing about a modem.
> Does it come with a modem and if so is the modem voice/data/fax?
>
> I have a Creative modem blaster v.92 PCI card. If I install this modem
> card into the motherboard, will it be able to record voice messages?
>
> Let me know.
>
> thanx,
> spark-e :roll:
>

 

[TomC]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.soyo (More info?)

Yes, your Creative modem can enable your computer to act as an answering
machine.

The motherboard feature you describe is called "wake on modem" " or "wake on
ring". That mobo probably has it, but your modem almost certainly does not.
Last time I checked, "wake on modem" worked only with external modems.

Since your callers aren't going to want to wait for your computer to
complete booting before they can leave messages, the feature wouldn't do you
much good anyway. You will probably need to keep your computer on at all
times, with the power settings to "always on".

Using your computer as an answering machine is sort of like using it as a
fax. The idea sounds good at first, then you spend time setting it up, and
you find that it sometimes works OK but sometimes not, and it is not
convenient, and in the end you just buy a separate answering machine and
fax.

Tom







"spark-e" <patrick@dillydrop-dot-com.no-spam.invalid> wrote in message
news:6ba0c$42671a43$455da0d2$20579@allthenewsgroups.com...
> My motherboard and power supply died yesterday via power surge and
> fried together, leaving me bereaved.
>
> I have to get a new one.
>
> I want to buy a Soyo KT600 Dragon V2.0 Socket A Barebone Kit / AMD
> Sempron 2800+ / Silver Tower Case / 350 Watt Power Supply.
>
> It seems to be what I want as far as being a multi-media pc but can it
> answer the phone while I'm out?
>
> The specs talk about a LAN Wake-up feature but nothing about a modem.
> Does it come with a modem and if so is the modem voice/data/fax?
>
> I have a Creative modem blaster v.92 PCI card. If I install this modem
> card into the motherboard, will it be able to record voice messages?
>
> Let me know.
>
> thanx,
> spark-e :roll:
>

 

[TomC]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.soyo (More info?)

Sorry for the multiple posts. I'm not quite sure how this happened. I sent
the post only once, and my email client (OE6) shows only one post sent, but
three posts show up in the newsgroup. I noticed a problem connecting to the
newsgroup server.

I guess the same thing might happen with this post.