When NT or W2K reboots, they send signals to the serial port to detect the
attatched equiptment. It happens to me all the time and I remeber this was
documented somewhere in the archives.
HTH
Jack Walker
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> I have a dell 3500 laptop running win2k pro that I have used to configure
a
> half dozen 3500 and a few 2924 switches and I have been connected to the
> console port while booting and have not noticed anything like this
> happening. perhaps it is a manufacturer specific issue
>
> daveh
>
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> Has anyone seen an issue with some of the 3500XL, 2924XL, or 2916s where
> they reboot if they are connected to a laptop running Windows 2000 while
the
> laptop is booting? It didn't happen under windows 98, but for some reason
> 2000 sends some weird signals out the serial port that causes Cisco
switches
> to reboot.
>
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