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Hi,

I've had my X1000 for 6 years now and have upgraded the CPU and RAM in this time, but it still works flawlessly and has not broken down even once. I'm amazed at how reliable this machine is.

If your graphics card doesn't work, there might be an issue with the motherboard.

I have the same thing, in fact I bought 3 of them off eBay including an advanced replicator, and it seems this is not really an issue with the replicator, it seems that the video signals being passed through to the replicator itself are becoming weak somewhere....video is crisp and clear when connected directly to the VGA port on the laptop, but the VGA port on the replicator always has a slight haze and flicker.

So far I've had great success running the Microsoft drivers on my LCD TV, of course the laptop panel still distorts, but the external monitor works like a champ. In fact Vista Media Center looks gorgeous and even shows all the animations. No idea why the internal screen distorts so badly.

I installed an older HP driver (manual install) and that got the internal panel to work perfectly, however media center looked horrible as no graphics appeared, so I got rid of that driver as I use this laptop primarily as a media center to stream media to my living room.

I installed ultimate and other than not having Aero, it runs very well. The only problem cropped up when I stopped using the external monitor and wanted to use my laptop panel instead, the drivers don't seem to work with it!

At first, Vista didn't recognize the card, but an update installed MS MR9000 drivers which work fine with my external monitor, but the internal panel is completely out of phase with horizontal and vertical distortion. I did a search on Google and found out many people have the same problem. Has anyone had similar issues here and found a work around?

I know this laptop is old, but its still pretty good for a lot of stuff, and other than the video issues, Vista actually runs great on it. I wanted to use it as a media center for my TV.

No answers???

Hi,

I use my Presario X1000 primarily with my port replicator, however when connecting an external monitor to the VGA port on the replicator, I noticed that there are some wavy patterns on solid color backgrounds, probably indicating a weak signal. Thinking there maybe something wrong with the replicator itself, I purchased 2 new ones on eBay,  both of which exhibit the same problem. I just wanted to find out of anone else has had the same issue.

I'm currently using a 19" Acer LCD and I have the MR9200 with 32MB of VRAM.