The screen on my HP Pavilion dv 1000 is too dark. The probem extends 2/3's from the left and almost 1/4 of the screen from the left. It's becoming so bad I barely can read the screen. Thre problem seems to be getting worse.

Below is a link to download the sound drivers for your laptop. Download, install and reboot and everything shoud be fine.

ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp28001-28500/sp28481.exe

Try lowering your display settings when it is hooked up to the external monitor. Then try the laptop screen again.
Right click an open area of the desktop, select properties, click the display tab. In the lower left of the box there is a settings slider, try lowering the settings and see if it gets better.

1.Right-click on an empty area of your desktop screen

2.Left-click on Properties at the bottom of the drop down list

3.Left-click on Settings in Display Properties window.

4.Left-click on the 1 monitor icon to adjust the screen resolution for the HP dv2000 LCD screen.

Left-click on the 2 monitor icon to adjust the screen resolution for the external monitor.

5.Go down to where you see the heading - Screen Resolution, and the slider underneath the heading.

Left-click right on the slider, hold the mouse button down, and slide to the Right to increase resolution, to the Left to decrease resolution.

1. Right click on Mycomputer, select properties
2. Select hardware
3. Select Device manager
4. double click system devices
5. if any yellow color pointed is displayed on any option then right click on the option and uninstall it
6. then select Action from the menu bar on the top and select scan for hardware changes
7. then it will start scanning your new hardware and install drivers automatically or it may ask for the installation drivers.

try this.. hope in this step itself it should solve your problem

If your OEM is original from manufacture, and this option was installed. Restart PC, at the HP intro screen type "f11" 4 times, choose recovery, make shure you choose "restore to manufature settings" gl hope this works for you.

Your laptop's monitor went bad and needs to be replaced. I had the same problem on an IBM laptop I had. Replacing the monitor costs between $120-220.

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I had this kinda problem solved on a Acer 5920 LAptop. The webcam driver was the culprit. Remove the cam driver for the same, the windows driver will take over and then i guess it will work fine. I figure its a driver issue or a TSR program not quitting. If this fails try uninstalling recently addes program or driver.

1) There is SD card reader on pavilion dv 1000, so you need adapter in which you insert mini SD card to make it SD
2) If you have that adapter, check adapter. Maybe it's broken.
3) If your card is biger, like 2GB or higher you may try updatenig drivers (I read on one web page: " There was a software update for support of reading and using higher memory SD cards, for my pavilion ZV5000, on the HP Software update website." )

sounds like the video chip is history.