How to reformat ze2000?

This Link
seems to provide the best thorough approach to getting those drivers installed & working.

However, someone claims, on this forum page(last post on the page) that all you need to do is use the "windows online driver search" function, and it will handle all of the messy work of locating, downloading & installing.

I hope that helps.

First reseat the drive firmly, and see if there is any difference. It is amazing the difference a millimeter will make in getting that driver to stay detected. If reseating does no good, then the MB connection itself is suspect

I did this to a laptop many times. And after soldering the problem came back after few months. This is a major problem with laptops. What I finally did is jum short wires inside to bypass the part of the board that caused the problem, and never had to open it again. Opening a laptop is not easy with so many screw, and I hate opening it every few months.

Sounds like you possibly have a dead battery that is not taking a charge

I had a laptop just like that and it ended up being that the cpu fan and heatsink was coated with dust. do you have pets or dusty house?

Are you wirless or wired to the network?

If wireless, you just may be getting a crudy signal, try getting closer to access point ( router).

Also, Verizon sux, i hate them, personally.

Anyways.
If you show the connection is good, then it could just be you have a slow system. I need to know your specs.

1. What operating system
2. What type and how much RAM
3. What kind of processor
4. what kind of Video Card?
5. Dial up? or High speed DSL ?
6. Wired or wirless?

Get back to me and we can see whats up.

Oh, its not overheating is it. When it runs slow, is the cooling fan reving really high? Is it giving off alot of heat besides the norm when it starts acting up?

You can get the drivers here:

http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/support.html?pageDisplay=drivers

This PDF file walks you through it step by step.

http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c00442578.pdf

Open the machine up disconnect the HD and reconnect it again.
Hope that works otherwise your HD is broken

sounds like a backlight or display power problem.