My geforece 4200 6mb has never worked properly i usedd to think it was other parts of my computer, but a reformat DID NOT FIX THE PROBLEM. the minute i swaped my ati for the nvidia in my machine it goes haywire in games.in most all of my games theres some flicker and BAM, everythings miscolored on my screen and there are these like planes of color cutting through my vision forcing a restart.sometimes afteer like 5 mintutes, colored static just takes over the screen and reboots my cmoputer. ive posted here about this problem before, but no one ever gave me a solution., updating the drivers for the card and the mobo itself did not yield a solution.

recently my brother was on my computer and didnt know what to do and the computer restarted with teh colored static (which goes to show this is a video card problem, not an OS, as it gives me colored static even when displaying hte bios). ANYWAY, after it boots into XP, the colors are all ****ed up and it wouuld not get out of 4 bit color mode. now xp doesnt like anythign less than 16 and kept flashing all these warnings at me. most windows fuctions wouldnt display properly in 4 bit color so navigating through all that crap was difficult as ihad to rely on memory as no other computer in the house runs xp. basically, despite a driver roll back, despite trying to fix it in safe mode, i had to reformat. i dunno how or why, but the problem gets REALLY bad towards the end of games. So far, in NOLF2 and RENEGADE, both give me the system killing color static about 30 seconds into playing. please help. any suggsetions or ideas are appreciated