[jimbeam]

This is going to be a long one because I'm facing 2 problems with my laptop (2 problems so far~)

I've only got this new laptop about 2 months now. The problem started the following day. All of a sudden, everything on the desktop is messy, as in the menu on the taskbar start dissappearing or overlapping each other, even the clock and the small little icons on the taskbar disappears. When this happens, programmes eg Mozilla couldn't run properly, the sites I was visiting was flickering like mad (FYI, I wasn't visiting porn site :p). So I thought of restarting the laptop, When I click on the start menu, only the border came out, there was nothing on it, not even the "All Programs" and the Shut Down button was there, totally empty. In the end I have to call out the task manager and restart the laptop from there. Everything which is on the desktop totally goes wrong, I couldn't open any shortcut from my desktop.

The second problem would be my built in webcam. Sometimes it can be turned on and sometimes it will say that I did not plug in my webcam or another program is using the webcam, which is not, btw I'm using msn messenger. I tried restarting my laptop for this and it work but the when I need to use it again the second time the problem starts again, basically I have to restart the laptop everytime I need to use the webcam.

When I brought it back to the shop, they told me it was some programs which might have caused the laptop to go crazy and I should restore everything back to factory settings. And so I did, and the problem still occur, and I brought it back to the shop again, and this time they tested for me and they told me that they COULDN'T find any fault on it. Till today I'm still having this problem.

Just a little bit of what my laptop's running :-
AMD Turion 64X2 TL 64 2.20 Ghz
2 GB RAM
nVidia GeForce 8400M GS
Vista Home Premium

Any help will be very much appreciated, thank you in advance!

[Spencer2004]

sounds like a graphics fault, hopefully with the driver.

try installing the latest nvidia drivers here http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvist...9.25_whql.html

[jimbeam]

Originally Posted by Spencer2004

sounds like a graphics fault, hopefully with the driver.

try installing the latest nvidia drivers here http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvist...9.25_whql.html

thank you so much for your help. i'll give it a try and let you know the results later, thanks again

[jimbeam]

Hi Spencer2004,

I've tried it and it was no good. The message showed this :-

"The NVIDIA Setup program could not locate any drivers that are compatible with your current hardware. Setup will now exit."

Any idea?
TQ

[Spencer2004]

ok try this one http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/GRA...Go-15655.shtml

[jimbeam]

Originally Posted by Spencer2004

ok try this one http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/GRA...Go-15655.shtml

sorry for the late reply, having problem with the internet connection here. i went to the above website and i found out its for windows XP is that right? but im using Vista, is it ok to installl it? sorry coz reli bad at this so need u guys expert advice...

[Spencer2004]

it should be ok, you can allways uninstall it.

[jimbeam]

hey spencer!
i've tried installing the last link you gave me....it was a bad news lol....the last one was meant for windows runnining 2000 and XP only, so Vista was out of the question. HOw come the 1st link you gave me didn't work.