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Hi, fellow netters! I turn to you since IBM have not been able to solve the problem decribed below in three months!. I have seriuos problems in using TP750 connected to external monitor and ethernet through the PortReplicator w/ PCMCIA. The problem is an alternating wave pattern on the external monitor, which is really disturbing. The problem seems to exist always when the computer feeds current to the ethernet PCMCIA card in the PortReplicator. The wave pattern is moving slowly and alternating the direction. Depending on the monitor and refresh rates used the wave front is either horisontal or diagonal across the screen. Monitor resolution affects the distance between wave tops. Its about 4mm at 640x480 and 2mm at 1024x768. The refresh rate seems to somewhat affect the appearance. I have replaced every part I can imagine. I have tried three different port replicators, five different PCMCIA cards, four TP750s of which two were TFT and two mono. At least two transformators have been tested. The only thing that affected the wave pattern is the change of the PortReplicator, but only by making the pattern slightly different. IBM lab claims that they are unable to reproduce the bahavior -- I never fail. Is there someone on the net who is using a TP750 with external monitor and IBM PCMCIA ethernet card (I use the coax variant, but it does´t matter) connected to the PortReplicator?. I want to know if there excist a configuration where this problem does´n show up. [If the PCMCIA card is connected to the TPs own slots the problem is (almost) invisible. I´m writing this message with a TP350 with a PCMCIA ethernet connected -- without any interference] Sorry, this become too long but I wanted to explain my trouble thoroughly. Thanks in advance, Antti Kilpinen Antti Kilpinen, Ph.D (Chem.Eng.) Institute for Advanced Management Systems Research Abo Akademi University DataCity FIN-20520 Turku