Hey Everyone, I have a question regarding a company laptop. The tech people there didnt have any idea without me having to ship my laptop in... Basically, the company I work for utilizes a DOS based program that we utilize via parallel port. As of now, whenever I go into this program, I make a selection, and it shuts the comp down immediately. When I boot it back up I get a quick blue screen (just before loading to desktop) and the only thing I can see is something about "this driver may be" and then "flpydisk.sys". And it just keeps restarting from there. Now just to get the comp to boot up, I disabled "Legacy Floppy" something or other via BIOS. The odd part about all this is I don't even have a floppy disk installed. Just a cd burner/DVD drive. I don't know if the Dos program and this error are related, but I don't know what else to do. The most confusing part about all of this is my friend from work is having the exact same problem. I know this is a tough one, but does anyone have any ideas? Any info you may have would be highly appreciated. Thank you. Peter

flpydisk.sys is a M$ file related to floppy disk access, as you state that the DOS software is accessed through the parallel port, I would surmise that the parallel port is emulating a floppy drive controller. First re-instate the Floppy in BIOS, second undertake a search for flpydisk.sys , it is usually found in: c:\winnt\system32\drivers\ or c:\windowst\system32\drivers\ The following refers to XP but W2K is similar: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;817196

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/812489/EN-US/

Try disabling the printer port in the bios or switching from ECP to EPP or vise versa. Also, check your event viewer for any clues. It's probably a crappy driver. I would also install Windows 2000 Update Rollup 1 for Service Pack 4 if it isn't already. This might not have anything to do with it, but I would also check IBM's site for an updated bios. Laptops bios' are rarely updated.

Thanks very much for the input everyone. I'll give these suggestions a shot. Thanks again.