   Modem = silent- problem?
  Hi Guys,My modem that I''ve had in my machine for a few years has gone ''silent'' in the last few days, before it used to make screechy noises but it no longer does this, is this a problem? Is my modem gonna blow up? Or what?Thanks in advance. 
  Modems can generally be configured to be silent. Or the speaker could have died. Though it is a possibility that your modem is indeed going to explode, taking out the whole neighbourhood with it. Do you happen to have any terrorist among friends?   “Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.”    — Brian W. Kernighan (C programming language co-inventor);  Hmmm, seems like my speaker must have blown, so I''ve just set the volume to 0. ;  Ketchaval,I presume the modem still works...  When i worked in tech support, we had some computers that did that, their modems were hit by lightning.-brad ;  Yeah, I''m using it to post this... being a tight wad I''ll not replace it unless it becomes necessary. It works fine apart.  I''m not sure if the silence has anything to do with being hacked(?) to install a p-rn dialler the other day? But my mother said that it had been dialling silently for a day or two previously. So maybe it just blew up by itself? ;  If there was a dialler installed of any type, it might have turned on silent mode to help avoid you realizing its dialing out maybe 