madox...I am having the EXACT same problems with my new HP lap. I have
already disabled everything in my start-up except my Norton.

did any of the things you did help the situation? The service pack etc?

dying to know before I do the same.

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We joked about how our team consisted of some of the best IT Brains in the
Universe but could not get Vista to run on an HP Pavilion dv2000. We spent
over two days on this. One of the guys discovered that the BIOS didn't match
the model and after updating the SATA controller driver from the correct
model, Vista and all it's associated updates etc ran perfectly. So check your
BIOS and make sure the driver you load are for the correct model. And find
the guy from HP who is putting all the dv2000 stickers on the wrong model and
tell him I'd like to have a quiet word with him.