I have a gateway laptop to where when i need to change the volume control or the brightness of my monitor I have to hit the FN key and then another corresponding key due to whatever action I am wanting. Well whenever I try to do this now the little blue box that would appear in the top left corner that showed the level of brightness/volume now is all distorted and not allowing me to see anything. Any help is greatly appreciated.

That's the only thing that shows distortion? No other applications? What's the model number?
Mark

Gateway MT6831. It just started happening a few days ago.

Can you do a System restore to a date before tis started happening? I cannot find anything definite on your problem
Mark

I have tried to do system restore. It continuously says that System restore didnt finish successfully. The only details it gives afterwards is that "an unspecified error occured."

I also had to install and update to video driver due to the screen flickering during certain programs. My Other drivers were outdated seeing how I bought the laptop about 9 months ago. Its Windows vista home premium with an intel 945gm chipset video card i think. The update was on 1-10-08.

Where did you get the update from? I would try it again. Preferably from Toshiba's site
Mark

I got the update from Intel' site. Why would i get the update from Toshiba if I have a gateway???

http://support.gateway.com/support/drivers...;param=1014364R

http://support.gateway.com/s/Mobile/2007/O...014364Rnv.shtml

I'm looking at too many post at the same time
Mark

Well i got the problem fixed. It seems that after I downloaded another update from intel which was an even newer one that I microsoft had a new vista update for the drivers and after I got all that downloaded and installed it work and fixed everything. Thanks for the help.