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Thread ID: 103335 2009-09-19 04:46:00 Screen/Display Question - SurferJoe46 (51) Press F1
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811853 2009-09-20 04:52:00 I tried all three of those ideas and I may have a little more info.

1) The nVidia fan is running good and the card is tight in the slot.
2) I played with the acceleration - but it didn't help.
3) Safe mode changed nothing.

I bet the vid card is pooped out.

Here's what I get to see:

The desktop (for instance) loads and after a few moments the icons show up, they disappear and reappear again, only to repeat once or twice more until it all settles down.

It looks like a dial-up page rendering if you ask me.

I'm gonna try taking the card all the way out and rebooting, reinstalling it and rebooting again.

Should I delete the drivers somewhere in the middle of that process too?
SurferJoe46 (51)
811854 2009-09-20 05:27:00 Easiest way is to delete the video card from device manager and then reboot. If that doesn't fix it, then you may need to physically remove the card.

You could also try forcing the driver via device manager, if it's using the wrong one.
Erayd (23)
811855 2009-09-20 05:33:00 You could boot into safemode and get rid of the drivers from Add/Remove Programs.

This is not an uncommon problem, sounds like the memory on the card is wasted. I've had similar happen on Geforce MX400 and a 6600GT.

SJ guess your card is AGP? Guess it will be hard finding a half decent AGP these days.
Cato (6936)
811856 2009-09-20 05:43:00 3) Safe mode changed nothing.


Safe Mode uses the vga.sys driver, so if it happens even in safe mode then I'm fairly sure it can't be a driver issue.
Blam (54)
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