Maybe it is me? Maybe my dear old mum should have called me Jonah? Maybe I am paying the price for being such a wanton child? Still it is getting annoying...every single bloomin time I think I have something sorted a spanner is thrown into the works.

Anyway now I have had a moan....can anyone help me with my latest problem?

As you may have read I decided to use my laptop (a compaq pressario pentium 3 1ghz) exclusively for music, using a Edirol usb interface. Soooo I dismantle the pc I was using, reformat the laptop, set it all up, plug in the Edirol and it installed under XP as it should. Start up Ntrack studio and you would not believe the noise. No problem I think. Start up Cool edit pro ....same noise. Took me ages to find that the power cord of the laptop was causing the interference. When it is unplugged and just running on batteries no noise at all. Plug in the mains and all hell breaks loose.

If anyone knows of a way I might get round this problem other than buy a stock of lappy batteries I would be eternally grateful.

Thanking you in anticipation,
Tony (cursing if not cursed!)