Nvidia Geforce 6200 Black Lines with 256 color images

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For some reason I have noticed that with any version of Forceware drivers for Windows XP Pro that, when I view for example say an about screen in Windows XP from say Notepad or even the about screen in Pegasus Mail, I will often see small (about 4-10 pixel wide) black lines in various part's of the image. Often times going back into the about screen will remove them, or they will show up in different places. This is only in applications that show 256 color or less about images, other apps that show truecolor about screens do not have this problem.

I have tried running in safe mode and those lines do not appear, so now I am wondering if anyone has any suggestions? I suspect either an old DLL file somewhere is causing it, the last couple of patches from Microsoft for that WMV/GIF/JPG file exploit, or just the driver itself, is doing it. Otherwise the card works 100% for everything else, and I have done the usual step of uninstalling forceware, running Drive cleaner pro in safe mode, and reinstalling.

*UPDATE* - Now, here's a lesson learned that had me pulling some hairs. I decided to run "sfc /scannow" in xp, and after about 20 mins it finished, so I rebooted, and next thing I know, XP SP2 complains about a STOP error and would not finish booting. So, off I went into Safe Mode, uninstalled the Nvidia driver (Forceware 84.21), then reinstalled it and all is well. Clearly, SFC replaced something the Nvidia driver didn't like.

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The reason they don't appear ib safe mode is basic only drivers are loaded in safe mode, suggestion is pull the card and reseat it give that a shot.

Just reseated the card and no luck. I think it could just be a software issue too, hard to say, but otherwise it's not a major issue as everything else works 100% on this card with no problems.

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I thought I mentioned it's a PCI card. At any rate I had reseated it and still no go. But, honestly, I'm not going to worry about this nor lose sleep over it because it only happens in a few select apps, and it only shows those tiny black lines in random spots, ONLY on 256 color dithered images, about 60-80% of the time. The other 20% it'll be perfect.

When the card work's great and fast for everything else I do, including 2D and 3D video gaming, video/dvd watching etcetera, I'm sure as heck not going to send the card back to the USA (I'm in Canada here) just because it could very well be a software DLL, a recent Windows Patch, or god knows what else causing a very minor graphic's abnormality.

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Does this card come equiped with a fan sounds possibly it might be overheating ussue.

Oh it comes with a fan, and the temperature monitor in the Nvidia drivers never goes above 37C. Besides, I had emailed the company that made this card and they never even mentioned the possibility of a defective card, so who knows.