Lost the video during Win7 update

I just got an Acer netbook with W7 Starter. I was bringing it up to date with online updating, when suddenly I noticed that there was no video. I plugged in an external VGA and it was black too. All the running lights were on, so I pushed the on button, which was set to turn the unit off. Upon rebooting, the video was back and Windows was doing its update configuration thing over the splash screen.

One of the updates was Intel's graphics driver. So I tell myself it was a hiccup related to that. But that's unusual, and I once had a laptop that the video cut out for moment, then came back, and then two weeks later left permanently. Since the video chip is the achilles heel of laptops, I'm a little concerned. Does anyone have any perspective to offer? Thanks.

Thanks, I appreciate the input. Just to be clear, this was about 3 minutes long before I shut it down.

Yes, this is not the norm, even for netbooks. It does seem to be fine now. I'll watch it for a while, and give it some stress testing. Thanks again.

Very cool. I didn't know about that tool. It shows a lot of successful updates and no problems whatever. That helps my confidence level! Thanks again, whs.

This one was 54MB. Not small, especially for an Atom N270, but I've never seen anything like this happen. Seems to be great now, I'll continue to keep an eye on it.