Weird problem with my new video card 9800XT

[Nocturnal]

I have a 9800XT video card made by ATI. Anyways when I either log off and change user accounts or if I've been idle for a while and my screen saver enables itself, once I come back to the screen my Outlook icon in my taskbar is a weird color. It does not change back to its normal orange color unless I do a send/receive to check for e-mails. Is this a broken video card or just something to do with Windows?

I installed the newest video card drivers available and it is still doing this. I'm hoping this is normal and not some isolated incident that will eventually break my card.

Here's a screen shot.

 

[CraigRT]

try changing the icon perhaps?
almost seems like you are running in 16 bit color and it's a 32bit color icon or something, but it shouldn't be displaying like that... strange.

 

[Nocturnal]

Originally posted by: CraigRT
try changing the icon perhaps?
almost seems like you are running in 16 bit color and it's a 32bit color icon or something, but it shouldn't be displaying like that... strange.

Exactly! This seems to be happening on my girlfriend's profile/log in as well. Everything looks 16bit but it is set at 32bit.

This makes me a sad panda!!!

 

[Willoughbyva]

Usually when I upgrade major hardware devices I will reformat and reinstall.

You need to make sure you got rid of all the old video card drivers if you didn't do a freash install. Ilso what directx version are you running?

 

[MichaelD]

I've found that if you *post in GH* cough....chortle...snorke.........you'll find that the drivers will *post in Video* cough...hack...chortle...

 

[Nocturnal]

How does one get rid of all drivers and re-install everything again? I have not done this and this may be the culprit.

 

[MichaelD]

Google on Driver Cleaner. Latest version is DC2. Download. Install. Run. problem solved.

then google on "posting in correct forum." That's educational too.