Problems with Vostro 1000 Graphics

Hello. I recently installed XP SP2 (not the disc that came with the
laptop) on my Vostro 1000. I downloaded all the necessary drivers for
the laptop and I'm having some strange video errors. Every once in a
while, everything will lock up except the mouse and the screen then
goes black and comes back on. This happens several times an hour.
Sometimes the computer will completely restart.

Has anybody else had this problem? Any resolutions?

Thanks.

after you installed xp, did you install the chipset drivers (both the amd
driver and the ati driver as listed on dell.com)? then the 70mb ati video
driver, the audio driver, and the network drivers. if you didn't wipe the
factory partition that has system diagnostics you might was to boot into the
disagnostics software and run a test of the hardware. press f12 durring the
power on sef test to be presented with an option to start diagnostics, or
read here other ways you can do it...
http://support.dell.com/support/edoc....htm#wp1076596

<catbread.org@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello. I recently installed XP SP2 (not the disc that came with the
> laptop) on my Vostro 1000. I downloaded all the necessary drivers for
> the laptop and I'm having some strange video errors. Every once in a
> while, everything will lock up except the mouse and the screen then
> goes black and comes back on. This happens several times an hour.
> Sometimes the computer will completely restart.
>
> Has anybody else had this problem? Any resolutions?
>
> Thanks.