Thanks for the quick response (frankly, I'm a little amazed). I agree about the general value of the Acer, but my daughter has a quirky emotional attachment to it (one of those inherited geek tendencies; I still have my first Apple II+ and it is entirely functional, jacked up to an amazing 128KB of RAM and running Apple Pascal), probably because she never expected such a gift, especially while she was in one of those teenage states that only a parent could see light beyond. Her current machine is a Dell desktop (dude!), which has a few other unique problems (but for which I did recently upgrade video/memory/hard drive/wireless LAN/etc. and dual partitioned for RH9 in addition to XP Pro).

Even if I fix the power connector, no upgrades likely on the Acer, she'll have to stick with Win98 on that antique (unless she wants to make that box a Linux toaster).

Again, thanks for the response.