Update: 11/6/08: The problem is back... after the machine slept / hibernated overnight. Well... I think this is at least a clue. I'll have to call HP I guess.
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The new HP tablet is really nice, but I was having a problem that when it was sleeping in tablet configuration, and I would wake it back up, it would come up briefly in portrait mode, then flash, then go into landscape mode with half the screen black. It did this back and forth screen orientation change pretty consistently. One time it even got worse once and half the Windows desktop was permanently black except for the task bar.
Very annoying and updating all the drivers didn't help.
But after reading some posts on the web about other weird problems, I tried a suggestion which worked for other problems.
Do a full shutdown. Then remove both batteries (I had the extended battery installed as well) and also unplug the thing, so totally off and unpowered. And then mush the power switch to On a few more times to drain all residual power.
Then reinstall the batteries and power on. It's been working great so far. For the record, I had also updated the drivers as I said.
Mark
PS: On this tablet, if you go into custom power settings, under "Lid and Power Button", you can have the laptop Sleep instead of Hibernate, which is nice, as the tablet fires back up much quicker. Doesn't look like you need the Hybrid sleep however.
PPS: The fingerprint reader, used to unlock the thing, also seems sluggish, it sometimes doesn't wake up very quickly. This didn't seem to help fix that.
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