protools is fun for people who love to loose hours of work

[pixeltarian]

Could be the graphic card. Buy an inexpensive PCI-e graphic card (I recently got one for less than $50 that has dual-monitor outs and works great) and see if that solves the problem. Integrated video cards are usually crap... then again, that's all laptops have so...

What make and model is the mobo?

Asus M2N5-BN
(Nvidia nforce 410 chipset, integrated gefore 6150 graphics card)

*edit*
shoot man! ju found this on the pt site:
"reports of incompatibility from some users with Pro Tools and motherboards with the NVIDIA nForce 405, nForce 410, and nForce 430 graphics chipsets"