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[mps69_1999]

I'll start by saying I'm a complete prat, there it's out the way and I know it.
Here's my problem. I've just reformatted my boot drive, the PC now boots up nice and quick again....gawd it's good to get rid of some of the junk I had installed.
Everything works fine apart from my monitor. When I scroll I get this strange ripple effect as I scroll. Now this is the part where I've been a prat, I forget to take a note of the VGA drivers. I've tried an auto update to little success.
Has anyone ever had this problem and how did you solve it?
You would think after all the times I'd done this I would have remembered something basic like the drivers.....DUH!!
Anyway thanks for any advice
mps

[lokoike]

mps69_1999, on Mar 20 2006, 12:15 PM, said:

I'll start by saying I'm a complete prat, there it's out the way and I know it.
Here's my problem. I've just reformatted my boot drive, the PC now boots up nice and quick again....gawd it's good to get rid of some of the junk I had installed.
Everything works fine apart from my monitor. When I scroll I get this strange ripple effect as I scroll. Now this is the part where I've been a prat, I forget to take a note of the VGA drivers. I've tried an auto update to little success.
Has anyone ever had this problem and how did you solve it?
You would think after all the times I'd done this I would have remembered something basic like the drivers.....DUH!!
Anyway thanks for any advice
mps

You are correct. It is your video drivers. First, try restarting Windows. Oftentimes after a clean install of WinXP, the video drivers still aren't finalized. If you still have the effect after restarting, go to the manufacturer's website and get drivers that way. Does your video card have an ATI or Nvidia chip? You can get drivers packages/control panels here:

ATI

Nvidia

Also, make sure you have your color set to 32-bit, and that you have a screen resolution of 800 x 600 or higher (preferrably higher).

[mps69_1999]

Thanks lokoike, I found the driver and it install Ok.

PS a quick note for everyone, never, and mean NEVER re-format your PC while your drunk, it's not BIG and it's not clever

[Andavari]

The video drivers WinXP uses from the get-go must be a generic play-it-safe driver because I notice some weirdness whenever I do a clean install of new video drivers from my ATI display card, e.g.; beyond slow video responses which actually slowdown everything.

[mps69_1999]

Ahhh it got worse, I had to install new drivers for my soundcard too.
I had forgootten how fast my PC booted up.