Does a soft modem have an internal speaker?

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"Knack" <zok9@NOSPAMhotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Was having problems with my HP Pavilion XF255 laptop's modem. Knowing that
> it was Conexant, I installed an AC'97 (ACLink) modem driver update for it;
> downloaded from the Conexant web site.
>
> After successful installation of the driver, the next bootup produced a
> WinXP(SP2) popup asking if I wanted to run the program file
> <carpserv.exe>. So just now I just researched that filename and apparently
> it's a "background application which enables the internal modem speaker
> and allows you to listen to the dial-up sounds. It is related to Zoltrix
> modems."
>
> Don't ever recall hearing dialup sounds before with the old driver
> installation. Does my system even have an internal modem speaker? Should I
> delete this executable <carpserv.exe>?
>
No need to reply. I just clicked Run on the popup box. Then I disconnected
the dialup session. Next I did another dialup and in fact I can now hear the
dialup and handshake sounds coming from the left speaker.

And I expect the carpserv program to automatically startup on every reboot,
because I found that it appears in the registry at
HKLM\SOTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run