Lines garbling up windows icons, mouse, and game play

[jidsp]

For some reason, I'm getting these garbled images on icons and my mouse just recently. They're like little thin lines going up and down the icons. However, if I wave my mouse up and down the image for awhile it may begin to look clear again. I tried restarting my pc, cooling down my vid card, putting back my vid card in, checking the connection to my monitor and changing resolutions but it's still the same. The images are jacked up in games too. However, everything in my Mozilla look fine (however the browser toolbar in ie is a bitgarbled). Also the startup image has some dots. All my drivers are up-to-date and the bios is fine too. Please help me out, thanx.

[mikezel]

Do have a different video card you can swap in?
When you updated the drivers, did you uninstall the old ones first?
What brand / wattage PSU do you have?

mike

[jidsp]

No I don't. When i updated the drivers, I had no drivers installed earlier because I just reformatted my hd and deleted all partitions. I installed using win 2000 and upgraded to winxp. I updated windows then installed the graphics card drivers. My PSU is by L&C and is 460 watts. It was working well for 2 days and a half.

[jidsp]

Ok. The startup image produced by my mobo is fked. However, everything in safe mode looks sexy. But the windows loading and startup image are fked. Dos text looks fine. So far, I just reset cmos and removed/reinserted the mobo battery and deleted the main partition. The bios is still up to date, and the startup image was looking goo as I kept resetting it to make sure. Then I pressed F1 to continue and it began to update DMA pool data or something and then I reset the pc again and the startup image was fked again. Weird.

Another thing, earlier while my pc still ha da partition, my pc was making sounds before,like constant beeps. Then I tried removing the battery and putting it back in. The sound was removed. Then later on, after I reset cmos using the jumpers from 1-2 to 2-3 back to 1-2. The pc began to make those beeps again. Then I removed the battery again and the beep stopped. Wtf is going on?? Please help.