9800 pro problem???

[Bachinat0r]

I tried posting this problem once before and no resolution came about and I thought I would try again b/c the problem is quite annoying.

First let me explain what any normal person should see in the display panel, under the options tab. under the settings tab there is a section for screen resolution. there is a slider bar with less on one side and more on the other. within that slider bar you should have a set number of hash marks indicating where you can put the slider. the number of hash marks should never change unless you get a new video card...right???

now my problem is a 2 cycle process. when i boot up my computer and go into the settings tab of the diplay properties. under the screen resolution section i would have 20 gray hash marks, and my monitor to look at would strain the eyes a little (probably just refresh rate)...if i restart my computer and go into the setting section of the display properties again, i would have only 6 hash marks in the screen resolution section...everytime i reboot my computer it just goes back a forth with these 2 setting...both of which say my resolution is the same. the only difference is the number of hash marks that are shown in the screen resolution section.

things i have tried to resolve the problem: reinstalling drivers, reinstalling monitor, using old ati drivers, using new ati drivers and using omega drivers.

the main reason that this bothers me so much is b/c i fear that this problem is slowing my card down. my brother has nearly the same pc specs that i do and his geforce 4200TI is playing games faster than my card.

here are my system specs:
Abit KX7333R
Athlon 2200+ fsb 266
1gb pc 2700 ram
2 WD 80gig 7200 rpm drives running in Raid 0
Hitech IceQ 9800pro 128mb

PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME!

 

[ski]

If the MB has onboard video, then make sure that it's disabled either in BIOS or with a MB jumper.

If that's ok or not applicable and the 9800 replaced an older video card, then did you remove the old video card from Device Manager and uninstall its drivers before installing the 9800?

 

[bigbrownbuku]

a few things to note. is your card a 128 bit card and probably your cpu is slowing you down. upgrading your cpu will give you better performance.

 

[Bachinat0r]

Thanks for the input! the mobo does not have onboard video. the graphics card did replace a geforce2 TI card (very much in need of upgrading). i did completely remove the old drivers. uninstalling from add remove programs, searching through the registry (removing all keys for nvidia/geforce, and using the 3rd party software "driver remover.

 

[ski]

OK, update you AV program with the latest files, and do a virus search.
Also, some online AV programs may find stuff that yours does not:

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/com/activescan_principal.htm

In addition, d/l and run Ad-aware, Spybot, and CWShredder to remove any spyware.