>>>>> Jason R Thorpe writes:

Jason> Eeek.  Is there a BIOS upgrade for your machine?  If so, you
Jason> might consider trying it out, and not using this patch.

Tried that, no change. And according to the Toshiba support web pages
this machine is supposed to handle Win2k fine.

The only thing the BIOS upgrade gave me was that suspend/resume
stopped working... ;-(

But thanks for the suggestion,

        -- Urban