Always nice to know there are as****** in anyplace you go. you can never be without one i guess. Dumbass, in case you haven't noticed before you entered your attitude into this post, Everyone other than you knew what was needed and gave their worthwhile 10 cents. Aside from my rambling, it failed. I input the driver, the laptop took it, reformatted and started installing. But when it came time for the first restart I got the "computer error, if this is your first time seeing this restart......" . And it did that from then on. So I reinstalled Vista until I can find out what went wrong.