Hey thanks, that might do the trick. The old laptop is an HP Pavilion
NS425. It's about 3 years old. Worked fine before the power plug
broke. It was diagnosed as a bad power plug (PC side) by CompUSA tech,
and I concur that most likely this is the problem. (For a while you
could get it to work by holding the plug in tight by hand). It has
Windows XP on it and always seemed to run pretty fast.

If I knew how to take it apart I might be able to fix it. I do know
how to solder.

"Anaconda" wrote in message ...
Doug,

Not sure which model USB to Serial adapter you have, but this following
link has the driver for RS catalog part # 260-0183 USB to Serial Cable -
V. 1.0 for Window 98, ME and 2000

RS USB to Serial driver (140kB): 260-0183.EXE


Taken from RS driver support page:
http://support.radioshack.com/soft.htm


About that laptop... I might be interested. Details?


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