Something similar happened to me. In my case it was a conflict with
Alcohol 120% (cd burning software) and the nVidia chipset drivers for
the nForce2 chipset on the motherboard. Reverting to the Microsoft
version of the nForce driver solved my problem (as would uninstalling
Alcohol)
Tom McHugh
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