Vista - Horizontal Bars on monitor after certain actions

I've had Vista for a couple of days and everything within the OS is great.
Just one HUGE problem...the screen gets jumbled into a bunch of horizontal
bars after I do a couple of things. After closing the lid to my laptop and
opening it back up, even after changing the setting to "Do Nothing when lid
is closed", and after disconnecting another monitor. The only thing that has
allowed me to get the screen visible again is a system restore to a point
that causes me to lose a lot of progress I've made.

Running Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit on a 1.6 GHzAMD Mobile Sempron
Processor 2800+, with 1024 mb RAM. Any ideas on why this is happening?

troozdell wrote:
> I've had Vista for a couple of days and everything within the OS is great.
> Just one HUGE problem...the screen gets jumbled into a bunch of horizontal
> bars after I do a couple of things. After closing the lid to my laptop and
> opening it back up, even after changing the setting to "Do Nothing when lid
> is closed", and after disconnecting another monitor. The only thing that has
> allowed me to get the screen visible again is a system restore to a point
> that causes me to lose a lot of progress I've made.
>
> Running Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit on a 1.6 GHzAMD Mobile Sempron
> Processor 2800+, with 1024 mb RAM. Any ideas on why this is happening?

Did the laptop come with Vista preinstalled or did you upgrade to it? If
the former, contact the laptop mftr. because there is a problem with
their drivers and power management software. If the latter, you need to
install Vista drivers for all your hardware and any specialized power
management software. You must get the drivers and laptop software from
your laptop mftr.'s website for your specific model laptop. If the
laptop mftr. does not have Vista drivers, contact them to find out when
they will. If your laptop will never have Vista drivers, put XP back on
the machine.


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