Switchable Graphics on Vista x64 - Aero is messed up after full screen video or sleep

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It happens all the time -- after exiting a windows media player, after resuming from sleep or hibernation...
This is a CLEAN new FRESH vista Business x64 install - just 10 hours old.
It has all the newest drivers and software, installed directly from System Update.
I had to reinstall the system because of this problem; turns out it is haunting me, on and on.
When using the ATI graphics the problem disappears, however the ATI graphics are loud and consume too much power.
Additional software installed: Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Office 2007 with Service Pack 1, NOD32 3.0 and Skype. No additional applications! And i hardly doubt these are the ones causing the problems!
If anyone has a clue about this problem, please share!!! And yes, this is a fresh, clean install (as a matter of fact - not for the first time), the video drivers are the most recent, DirectX is updated. Reinstalling the drivers doesn't fix the problem (tried it on my last fresh install).
On Vista 32-bit this didn't happen, however i have 3GB RAM and Vista x32 allocated only 2,5 GB and I had to upgrade to make use of my full memory.
Windows (vista x64 Business SP1) has all the important updates installed;
PC Doctor won't find any problems with the video card - i ran all the possible tests and they all got a 'pass'.
Message Edited by toshe on 02-20-2009 04:37 PM

ehh that kind of sounds like a screen problem because that happened to me and i went to 2 radio shacks 4 apple stores and thaey all said you have to replace it and its not as expensive

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