I've heard a couple windows people at my company talk about how the
plug/play features of Win2K go so far as poke at the serial port to check
for devices such as UPS.  I suppose some characters could be sent to the
console which could crash the box....  Just a thought..

-Brad


At 10:45 AM 10/3/00 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>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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