I'd heard about this issue several months back, but dismissed it as an Intel chipset problem, but lo' and behold Uncle Bill's legion of driver-smiths have struck again (did anyone else suffer those intolerable USB-reboot issues back in the Win98/2K days?). Evidently an MS driver component keeps your laptop system (particularly Intel Core-Duo models) from properly sleeping if certain USB devices are attached at the time. This, naturally, leads to your battery draining more quickly than it should--and you thought memory leaks were bad.
Anyway, read the deftly crafted tome at
cNET by clicking here.
- Hutch
