Vista black screen? Other minor issues as well...

[Guest]

I just purchased an HP Pavilion Notebook model dv2513nr about three days ago.

My specs are as follows:

Microprocessor 1.6 GHz AMD Turion â„¢ 64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile Technology TL-52
Microprocessor Cache 512KB+512KB L2 Cache
Memory 1024MB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimm)
Video Graphics NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 (UMA)
Hard Drive 160GB 5400RPM (SATA)

As for my problem?

I have had no problems until today. I loaded Windows Vista (32 bit), and
after the loading bar, but before the "Welcome to Vista" screen, it showed a
black screen with a green vertical line through it, not down the middle but
off to the right side. The line itself was around 5-6 pixels wide. I was told
this is a glitch in Vista, and not to worry. Anyone know about this?

Later on, I loaded Vista again, and after the "Welcome to Vista" screen,
instead of loading my desktop, it loaded a black screen, so I reset it, and
it still loaded the black screen. So on my third reboot, it still loaded a
black screen. All the times I got a black screen, my keyboard and mouse were
responding. So I pressed ctrl + alt + del, and came to a blue-green vista
screen with several options. I clicked cancel, and it loaded my desktop just
fine. I've had no further issues. Anyone know anything about that?

Then, I put it into hibernate, and came back with this error.

Display Driver Stopped Responding and Has Recovered - nvlddmkm nVidia Driver

I looked it up, and I seem to not be the only one with this problem? No one
seems to have a fix yet, so I thought I'd ask what this is about?

I sincerely hope I do not need to return my laptop, because I just went
through hell and back with my old laptop, and that is what made me get this
new one.

I hope it's just Vista being unstable, and nothing serious, like a hardware
issue or something that would need my laptop to be sent off or returned.

Any help would be grateful, thanks.

 

[Guest]

The startup problems you have described are not problems caused by Vista.
When you got the "options" screen, were they "safe mode, normal start, etc"?

If you have rec'd the error notice about the Nvidia graphis Drivers, I would
update the Nvidia Graphics Card's Drivers from nvidia's website, or your
computer manufacturers website.

Have you downloaded Windows Vista updates? Microsoft normally will include
updated drivers if it has them. But, it is not Microsoft's problem, it is the
manufacturers.

You don't really say much regarding whether the computer is under warrantry
or you installed Vista on an old laptop yourself.

 

[Guest]

My laptop came with Windows Vista already installed on it. Since the computer
is 3 days old, it's still under warranty with HP, and I could return it as
well.

I did some additional research on my certain errors, I've yet to find
anything on the vertical green line, but the blank screen and display drivers
issue seem to be fairly common.

Also, like I mentioned, the options screen was what came up after I did ctrl
+ alt + del on the blank screen. It came up with the normal options:

Lock This Computer
Switch User
Log Off
Change a Password
Start Task Manager

Cancel

I just clicked cancel, and it went straight to my desktop. And yes, I did
download Window's Vista updates on Monday. Last night I also went to HP's
website, looked up my exact model number, and downloaded the updated drivers
they have listed for my nvidia card.