Get your machine's repaired?
If under warranty you call it in. If out of warranty your choice to visit counters, change parts, reinstall the OS.
I hate dial up so much!! You did not misread that title. Dial-up is causing my computer to lock up right after it has been connected. I will get high speed internet very early next year; one that does not require a telephone line.
The only computer that I have that is capable of connecting to a telephone line is Compaq SR1053WM. The modem card is Motorola SM56. I have several virus protection software such as AVG, Malware-bytes or something like that, SuperAntiSpyware, A-Squared, Ad-Aware, and some registry cleaner. The definitions on them are updated... Is this possible that it might be a hardware problem?? Whatever they put into a SR1053WM; I think it is ASUS motherboard, and it is AMD Processor. I already cleaned out the heatsink on it..............

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