question about a vista glitch and battery

I got the laptop 2 days ago. It seems that sometimes when i play WMP, the screen will glitch like your watching a bad channel on TV.

Does battery you charge with for the laptop also provide extra battery in itself?

2 seperate questions

im using home premium

 

Are you using the Vista Business OS?

 

I don't understand what you are asking? :confused2: I hate to point out the obvious but notebooks are for portable use and designed not to be tethered to a plug. but you still have to recharge them when they are low...

 

no body can understand you type and the little part that i do understand is that your system cant handle tghe game thats whats up with the screen

 

I thought WMP = Windows Media Player? Maybe not.

 

it is. i dono what he meant by game because i dont remember talking about games...

 

not sure where you are coming from.... understand what type? WMP = Windows Media Player in the IT world. And if your system can't handle WMP, then you must be running a 8086

Two things I can think of and I am sorry I didn't say this earlier...
1. Video drivers
2. Codec/wmp problem
since you are running vista you don't have the option of going from 11 to 10 or 10 to 11.... hmmm...

try reinstalling video drivers. make sure they are vista certified/compatible. try resinstalling the codecs. if that doesn't work, try reinstalling wmp if you can.

 

when i minimize the WMP, it doesnt have the static like effect anymore. does anyone know if similiar situation has happened yet?

 

Like I said, it sounds like a vid driver issue. try reinstalling it.



BTW - you never answered my question about the battery - explain more on that.

 

i knew it stood for that i guessed for the screen thing sorry it could be corrupt (WMP)but yee it could be the vid drive being corrupt also i don't know sorry again i did jump to conclusions i guess thanks YoJr for pointing it out

 

I have never had a laptop before so i wanted to know if the charger is specifically a charger only, or does it have power inside itself when not connected to the wall plugs.

I still dont know half the files and programs on vista. can you let me know how i can reinstall it

 

Ah, the charger is only for charging and running on AC power. All the brick part of it is just to convert AC power to DC power. just like the old adapters that took up your whole outlet.. they were just nice enough to make it down the line abit

As far as reinstalling the video driver, Click on the Pearl (Start Button), open add/remove programs... You should be able to just type in programs in to the search. If not, it is in the control panel under programs. Look in there for anything by the manufacture of the video card [I.E. nVidia, ATI, Intel, etc...] and remove it... tell it not to reboot yet if you get an option, if it does automaticly, don't worry about it. once that is done, click start and type "device manager" and then go to video devices --> and right click on your video card and uninstall. then reboot. this should load the native vista driver... after that try WMP if it doesn't do it, you know it was the driver, then reinstall the latest driver from the manufactures site. again should be fixed. if the driver breaks it again, then you will need to wait for the next driver release. now if WMP still does it with the native driver, then you will need to reinstall WMP. go to the same place as you removed the video software (programs) and go to the windows components. Find WMP and uncheck it... reboot... go back and check it again, you will need your windows disk to do this. get back to us if that doesn't work.

 

Make sure you post back if that worked so we can help you further if you need it