stripes after reinstalling card driver

[zee]

hi, there...i need help for my PC. My PC is an old AMD Athlon XP2000 processored. With 512 RAM, 160 GB HDD, I'm not sure about the VGA, on-board sound card, Elite motherboard, Samsung monitor and DVD-RW. The problem is, I reinstalled my PC's windows and downgrade it from Windows XP SP3 into SP2 because it has this chappy looking graphics, and there's also beeping sound everytime i move the mouse and right clicked it. After I reinstalled the windows, the graphics wasn't changing, then i installed the card driver, it takes forever to install the C-Media driver, so I clicked exit, and it restarted. After restarting, it can get through the start up fine, although the graphics still chappy, purple and stripping. The biggest problem is, it can't get to desktop. After the star up, the monitor shows strips all over the monitor, with color. No chappy graphics, just vertical lines. I can't even shut it down properly, because even the cursor doesn't shown. So I have to force shut down by pressing the power button long enough. And it keeps go on like this afterward. Please, do you have any advise for me? What should I do to fix it? Thanx..!

[Maximiliam]

While it do sound like a driver problem, try to update the driver to the graphics card to the latest. Wait until it is complete and then restart your computer. If that does not work, try to reseat your graphics card to another slot and let it automatically install the drivers you have on your system. If that does not help then you might look into trying a different graphics card and see if the issue is resolved.

I am not saying you should go and by a new graphics card, try to borrow one from your friends or try to use another one you have lying around. Trouble shooting can be a pain in the butt.