No service alerts for this model. Have you tried the updating the wireless driver?

Double check that model number for me. Nothing came up with what you gave me. Try updating the drivers from HP's website when you get home

I am curious why you can't use erecovery. Why is this? Did you delete the partition?

If the partition is there boot into safe mode and use erecovery to burn and drivers and apps dvd. This will...

Couldn't hurt to check for driver updates. Good old vista and drivers

How old is the hp as well and if you could give me the model number. Some hp's have problems with the wireless card and i...

go to the device manager and uninstall the drive. Both of them if neccessary.

Go to start menu -> run -> regedit
navigate to the following key
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You will need to look at the bottom of your notebook. 9700 is the series. There will me a model number that looks something like this XX000 xx = 2 numbers 000 = 3 number. You will need to match...

Please reply back with success or failure for helping others with similar problems

What model of HP do you have. I can check the asp site for service alerts. My first thought is MOBO/grfx problem. Have you tried connecting to external monitor?

It is possible your palm is touching your touching you touchpad as you type. I have had customers at work having similar problems and when i had the show me that was the problem.
Alot of touchpad...

You can try to reseat your HDD. During the fall it could have gotten loose. If the computer was on when it fell then the HDD is probably bad. If you got the unit 3 months ago then you could have...