I was setting up my new laptop this weekend, and ran across a slight issue. First off, the nc6000 has quickly grown on my, and although I miss minime, I'll be just fine with this super fast replacement :)

Back to the issue at hand. Our IT group gave it to me with all of the updates on Friday, but over the weekend I figured I would check windows update anyway to look through optional updates. Hey look at that, I have a few driver updates. Lets do 'em all.

No problems after that. I keep setting this or that up, and all is well. Then, I unplug the power. I swear, this thing was acting like I was trying to run XP on a celeron 300. So I started searching. I found this post, which really started to make me queasy. How happy is the IT group going to be when they give me a laptop on Friday, and I hand it back on Monday to get it replaced. Something doesn't seem right, though, since it was running just fine on battery just yesterday.

So, if you updated your network, video, modem, and sound driver, which would you roll back first? I picked video, and won the gold star. Right after the reboot the machine was fast as hell again on battery. I normally wouldn't post this to my blog since, well, you probably don't care. HP's forum registration site was broken, though, and if I don't post this today I will forget about it :)