HELP - screen flashes black for a second a full minute after vista boots

Hello,

I got a new laptop today with windows vista 32bit ultimate..

I'm having a very annoying problem. After windows loads... About a full minute passes and the whole screen flickers black for a second, then back to normal. When this happens the mouse cursor is also repositioned to the center of the screen.

Any ideas?

My video card is a geforce go 7200 and im running the latest drivers. I took just about everything out of startup in msconfig. It happens in with aero... or with the basic theme.

Please help!

System Specs:

O/S: Vista Ultimate
G Card: Nvidia GO 7200
Ram: 2 Gig
Hard Drive 120 GIG


Thanks.

 

it's the NVIDIA Vista Driver! ... until now, they haven't perfected their vista drivers which annoys me!

if you want, you can test the latest (and beta) nvidia drivers on www.laptopvideo2go.com

 

Hey Matt, you're not alone in this. It's not your nVidia drivers, it's your Audio drivers.

Go to Control Panel, Programs and Features, and uninstall Conextant High Audio driver.

When you uninstall it, it will install the native Vista drivers, which work just fine and don't have the startup issue bug.

Then restart your computer and see if the problem is solved.

Good luck.

 

Hi there thanks, its worked!

But the light dont change colour now when they are muted.

Does anyone know when this issue will be addressed by HP?

 

i actually just noticed this flashing thing today.

I wouldnt mind doing this fix, but whats up with the button not changing color? anyone else have this problem?