HI, I have a very bizzare prblem with my laptop and i've had this issue for a while. (past few months)

I own an IBM thinkpad A31p and it runs great except at extremely random times it jsut freezes....now I found a solution to this problem...it s a weird one...all I do is I hook up my usb mouse and it has not once randomly crashed when its connected.

So i assumed it may have been a problem with the mouse drivers..I updated all those..still same problem. I used a diffrent copy of windows xp and that didnt solve my problem either.

I dontknow if this is a hardware or software problem. and it hard to test becasue the freezing is very random...it could happen hours after I start the laptop or just a few minutes or any time in between.

anyone ever have a similair issue?

Boomba,