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 ? ?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)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.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.