Trouble with an AGP GForce 6200- icons all messed up

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Hello. Just the other day I installed a graphics card into my computer, an HP Pavilion a510n. The card's an XFX Geforce 6200, AGP 8x (I think my computer's mobo only supports 4x because a piece of the card didn't go into the slot, but the card says it's compatible with 4x and 8x slots) 256MB DDR2.

Installation went well, and I installed driver that came along with the card, but my screen turned out all messed up. Firstly the screen resolution. Everything turned huge, like it would if when windows XP goes into safe mode. I adjusted this, now it's at 1280x1024. Then I adjusted the color quality to highest (32 bits, it was set to medium, 16 bits). Most of things on my computer appears normal (just a bit too small), but the icons and wallpaper are completely messed up.

Firstly, the arrow part of an icon (or example, the msn icon has a small arrow in the bottom corner) doesn't appear- it's replaced by a small black box. The wallpaper looks like a window was dragged right over it while the computer lagged, leaving lots of bits of a window along it. It basically looks shatter-ish. When I click start, all the icons are misalligned, but when I put the cursor over it, it turns back to normal. I wish I could screen print it, but when I do the picture turns out just like the wallpaper. I'll go ahead and post that though, to give an idea of what I mean

Besides the icons and wallpaper, everything is fine. I'm able to play Sword of the New World perfectly (or at least WAY better than before). I'm just a bit worried about the temperature. It's at 50C. So, whats wrong with my card? And thanks in advance.


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I installed a GeForce 6200 AGP card to my computer and it messed up all my icons and wallpaper.
 
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Um? Anyone? I removed the card and switched back to my onboard graphics, but the icons are still messed up.
 
See if you can get a screenshot of the problem?

From the sound of it though, it could be one of two things;

1) A faulty card.

2) Bad instillation of the drivers. Did you un-install the old ones first?
 
I had the same problem with GForce card and it's actually quite common for the RAM to go bad in these's cards. The first thing that seems to happen is your icons get all messed up. Even after the card was removed the icons were still messed up. You can use Tweak UI to fix your icons. It has an option to repair icons in the Repair section.
 
Kornowski said:
See if you can get a screenshot of the problem?

From the sound of it though, it could be one of two things;

1) A faulty card.

2) Bad instillation of the drivers. Did you un-install the old ones first?
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I removed an Nvidia driver I downloaded long ago (I didn't have a card, I thought it would make my graphics better back then), but I didn't uninstall the driver for the onboard graphics. I didn't see it in the uninstall panel, and afterward I figured I wouldn't have to since its for the onboard graphics. I installed the graphics card by popping in the disk and running it, right after xp booted up. That's when the graphics were all messed up, and the resolution.

I can't upload a picture for some reason, but the icons are basically missing little arrows on the bottom left corner, and some others are scratched across horizontally.
 
Problem fixed. If anyone's having the same problem as mine, just download the new drivers off Nvidia.com, lol.
 
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