Hi,

I have windows Vista Home premium (I keep it updated)

I have bought a new laptop (1month back) HP Pavillion DV6701au
AMD turion 64 x2 1.9 GHZ

My problem is that Vista restarts itself abruptly and randomly. I cant seem to find any pattern in the restarting. So I have been unable to pin point the reason behind it.

I also keep speedfan running, so I don't think that heat is the reason.

After restarting when the problem reporting center contacts internet it tells me that windows restarted coz of "NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller" and advises me to update the drivers.

But I have tried doing it and the microsoft site and the update utility tells me that the drivers are latest.

Any idea whats wrong here??

Have look at the Nvidia website and see if they offer updated drivers.

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

I am trying what you suggested bear. Well, nvidia site does say that I need another version of driver, I hope it works, right now am downloading it. Will let you know if it worked.

Thanks a lot.

Hey thanks bear, i think it worked, my laptop has not restarted since.

I am facing another problem
I really hope I can get it solved here.

Sometimes, when I start my laptop, the touch pad does not work properly, the cursor will only move vertically, it willl just go up and down, the buttons work fine.

But if I restart the laptop the touch pad works fine. This also happens randomly.

Guys any idea?? I would hate to send it to company to get repaired

well, I was too fast in posting the previous problem, I tried the same solution. went to synaptics website and downloaded a new driver and it is working fine now

only if windows had not informed me that all those drivers up to date, I would not have had any problem!!