From: "Geo." 

I haven't tried W2K or XP on this laptop so I don't know yet. If I could
boot a live DVD of either it would be an easy test but I have to format and
install them to see so that's going to be a while.

Geo.

"Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
news:45a032c0$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> If it's a hardware issue, why would it not be an issue with Win2k or XP on
> the same hardware?  Didn't this start with Vista?  It still could be a
> Vista problem that's triggering a problem with external hardware, ala the
> Linux problem with the news server.
>

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