hp pavilion dv2000 help

i have an hp pavilion dv2000 laptop which i bought last august and i absolutely love it. it came loaded with vista. the past month or so, every once in a while, the interface gets completely jumbled to where the screen will start flashing and everything becomes inaccessible and the only solution is to restart.

i thought the problem was vista's aero so i turned it off but it persisted even in the classic windows interface.

is it a problem with vista or with the laptop? i think all of my drivers are updated because i always update with the HP updater, but ive never manually checked. how do i check for updates manually?

should i send the laptop in (im still on warranty), downgrade to XP, or do you guys think its a driver issue?

thanks.

 

You can either do a recovery install which restores it to factory state or do a clean install

seems like your vista is bogged up

 

clean install

 

so noone here thinks its a hardware problem with the laptop or a driver problem?

 

Well, reinstalling the OS will confirm, if the issue is hardware or with the driver. If the driver got corrupted somehow resulting in ths issue, then reinstalling should fix it. However, if it happens even after a fresh install then it could possibly be a hardware fault.

But first, I would check HP.com for updated drivers. What graphics adaptor do you have? If you have the Nvidia GPU then look through the forums on laptopvideo2go for the latest version. HP usualy are slow to update. Intel should also have updates to their integrated GPU's on their website. Uninstall your current driver reboot and install the updated version.