PCBUILD Digest - 1 Nov 2003 to 2 Nov 2003 (#2003-305)



i'm using a sony vaio sr11k (W2000) that has suddenly started closing down when i remove a usb memory stick, and recently the usb floppy drive device too. i do what normally is required to de-activate the usb device and check all the right windows, but when i come to the last one and click ok, a blue screen comes on (with writing on it... something about the memory, but it disappears too quickly for me to read it all) and then the laptop switches off and starts again with a full check (since it was not switched off correctly!)
  i thought it was just a problem with the memory stick i was using ( it didn't happen with a friend's memory stick), but the same is now happening when i want to disconnect the vaio's usb floppy disk drive.
  any ideas are welcome!
  tia,
  laurence grignolo

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