@JDFan and GeekApproved
Might I suggest you put your differences aside and focus on the problem at hand, please?
@KenK
To be honest, from your description, it is very difficult to state what the problem could be. It sounds like it's a driver issue, but installing newer drivers should have resolved the issue. Of course, driver issues don't always resolve themselves by installing new ones.
Based on the
specifications of your system, it looks like you have an integrated graphics chipset on that system. If this is the case, the first thing I would do is uninstall the FX5200 and connect your monitor to the on-board graphics port. Does this resolve your issue?
If it does, then we've narrowed the issue down to either graphic drivers or hardware. If not, then we need to look at it as a system corruption in which we may need to do a format and re-installation of the operating system.
BTW -
This Tom's Hardware thread contains an image of the Dell 4600 motherboard. As WR2 states in that thread, the three white slots are PCI and the aqua colored slot is your AGP slot.
Additionally, I found out that there actually is a PCI-E version of the FX5200, but I think that's irrelevant at this point. Please confirm that your motherboard's expansion slots match the ones in the image on the other thread. Then report back if your system operates normally when the monitor is connected to the on-board graphic chipset.
If your system did not come with an on-board chipset (only had the FX5200 to connect the monitor to), Then I'd go straight to a complete uninstall and re-install of the card and drivers.
Go to
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us and download the latest drivers for your FX5200 graphics card, but do not install them, yet.
Boot your system into safe mode.
In Device Manager, expand the Display Adapters tree to show your FX5200.
Double click the graphics card to bring up the Properties page.
Click on the Drivers tab and click the Uninstall button.
This *should* correctly remove the drivers for your graphics card from the system.
When complete, reboot your system, allowing it to boot normally.
Your system *should* find the graphics card and see it as new hardware. It will attempt to install the drivers automatically. Cancel this operation. Then navigate to where you saved the previously downloaded drivers and install those.
Reboot your system once again and see if your problem has been resolved.
-Wolf sends