"Mark L. Ferguson" <MarkLFerguson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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>I think I remember that the Belkin cable uses USB.[/color]

It does, yes.
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> That behavior is very suggestive of a "Power Management" tab setting on
> the USB device properties pages. Uncheck the option to allow the device
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I have set the power management settings on the Vista computer to never
shut down. Is that what you mean or is there something else I should be
attending to?

Thanks,

Ian