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Display snowy then dies after upgrade

Feb 19, 2007 4:15PM PST

I have an HP Pavilion zt3000 laptop, formerly with XP SP2, and when I upgraded to Vista today, everything seemed to be working fine until...

During the process the screen automatically resized itself to the lowest resolution, then went fuzzy/snowy, kinda like when the cable is out.

I restarted in safe mode, and everything was fine. Each time I tried to restart in normal mode, fuzzy/snowy screen.

Now, it appears my laptop screen has died completely. Murdered by Vista. It is black, and even with the Fn F4 it does nothing but turn the external monitor off. The system seems to operate fine (with the usual bugs) when plugged into the external monitor, but now my laptop is of no use without its screen.

Anyone else encounter this or know of anyway to revive my screen? Thanks!

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Sadly this 3+ year old laptop...
Feb 20, 2007 12:16AM PST

I wonder if you ever dusted it out. I find laptop owners to not be aware that lint and dust build up and the overheating that results kills the chips inside (not Vista.)

Bob

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Nvidia?
Feb 20, 2007 8:37AM PST

I think i know what you are talking about. Is it something like a wierd moving black/white gridish thing? Its hard to explain but when i was testing Beta 2, the basic drivers that came from microsoft worked fine, but when i installed the beta drivers for my nvidia card, it would do that wierd thing until i installed the drivers in safemode and then restarted in normal mode. it was really wierd. Not sure if its what your talking about but it could be your graphics drivers..

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ATI Radeon actually
Feb 21, 2007 5:04AM PST

Thanks...I tried what you did, but further investigation led me to the fact that my video card will not support Vista...I'm on my way to CompUSA to get a new one. Hope that works...