Nvidia Geforce 6200 Black Lines with 256 color images
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. :guns: 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.
