Vertical lines on screen

[patio]

With laptops you should always use the laptop manuf. drivers...not the Video manufacturers....
Why not just re-install the native drivers from the laptops driver CD instead of rebuilding everything all over ? ?

[copespeak]

I thought the same, but wouldn't they have gone in on the factory reformat? (I am flying blind here, so I am sorry if I seem illogical)

[patio]

Yes. They should have...but re-installing them will do no worse than it is...
And that was indeed a logical conclusion.
However the ones on the driver CD may in fact be newer than the ones on the Restore CD if the manuf. had issues when the machine shipped.

[copespeak]

This last running through of the reformat put up a message when I booted up that installation wasn't complete, which was a bit confusing. But I think that after completely scrubbing the hard drive and my friend setting my c-drive up, he didn't set up my d-drive. I have two hard drives installed. I don't know how to do that, so might have to wait for his input when I can corner him next.

Hard work! But interesting.