Screen blacking out

[FMMoron]

This probably isn't the correct place to ask this question, but I didn't see a better place....

I have a new HP laptop and just loaded FM 7 onto it (the same version I've been using on a desktop for a while). In Layout mode, anytime I click on the screen and hold (like when you are moving an object)the screen goes black. While I'm moving the object I do get little flashes of the screen, but for the most part it is all blacked out. Any reason for this? and how can I stop it?

Thanks.

[IdealData]

Any chance that's Vista on the laptop?

If so, then FM didn't get screen stuff sorted out until 8.5v2. What you describe is exactly the problem.

[FMMoron]

It is indeed Vista. That sucks!

Thanks for solving that puzzle for me. I have been messing around with system settings for days.

[IdealData]

Sadly you've also missed the FM upgrade as FM7 went off upgrade a little while ago.

Downgrade to XP or new FMP.