Display Problem (Driver Related?)

[Marcia]

I was hoping someone could help me with this. I am
running Win XP Home with an Nvidia GE FX5200 video card.
I have a flat panel Advueu LCD monitor. I have my power
management set so that the monitor blacks out after 20
minutes of inactivity. Today when I clicked the mouse to
bring the monitor back up it only came back up very
grainy in what looks to be 16 colors. (Sort of reminds
me of windows safe mode.) Thinking it was a driver issue
I tried to roll back the driver with no result. Warm
reboots do not fix the problem. What does seem to fix it
is doing a cold reboot. This is the second time within
the period of less than a month that this has happened,
and a cold reboot fixed it last time also. I started
doing a cold reboot every morning after I had this
problem for the first time, hoping that I wouldn't have
it again, but it reared it's ugly head again today.

Does anyone have any idea what could be causing the
problem and what might be done to fix this permanently?
Thanks for your help!

 

[Stelios Koulouris]

Do you use the latest nvidia drivers (v. 53.03)? If not download them from
here
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_53.03
install them, and see what hapens...

 

[Charles]

I have the same vid card and same error message. I
replaced the vid card (Drove to the office of the
manufacturer) and this did not help. The fixes listed on
the microsoft error report page are no good as you can
not do much. Downloaded new drivers did not help either...