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Hope this helps! I took the tower and blew it out with the air hose today but was not much help as far as the problem. In the display properties under setting tab then the advance then the troubleshoot tab. I moved the slider down 3 notches from full on the hardware acceleration problem slider. (Disable all cursor and and advanced drawing accelerations use this setting to correct drawing problems). This setting seem to correct the problem but not really suer what it means !

Might want to take a look at your graphic card capacitors as well...they could be starting to go on ya. If they look like they are popping out on the top...swelling on the sides or oozing out on the bottom its gonna fail on you soon. And rather than buy a new card you can replace the capacitors for a few dollars if you know anyone handy with a soldering iron.

I changed the cables and that didn't help but I thought that was a good call to as they were 2nd hand ! Ok I downloaded the new driver for the 9800 ( Catalyst ATI) and now I can run it on the high end of the acceleration trouble shooter. But I still have some installing trouble and the ATI Control center will not run as with a few other programs that will not run. I still wonder if Windows has a problem and I almost forgot I can not install Impulse ! Not sure about the Capacitors as I have not gone that far yet. But I will keep that in mine. i sure have a bured up problem ! 

I have reinstalled windows safely on my 1st comp one time but the second time it reinstalled the whole deal not to my liking but now I know what to expect if it goes wrong now !!!!. I'm not a geek( Loving name for a wizard) although I wish I were! Snowman (My Hero) at least  I feel like I don't have Stupid embedded to deep on my forehead. I felt like it was also a windows problem partly. I am on a last resort leg for now as an Industrial Electrician I am angry that after working on Bar Meg control panels for so many years that I can't deal with a simple home computer. Let  me get back to all and let you know tomorrow.

I haven't reinstall Windows yet . I ran the sfc/scannow and nothing showed up so I assume it went alright. I did get the Impulse to run for now. The Catalyst ATI control center will still not open or show up in the display properties Every thing is moving like water  when you are running the explorer now. I will try reinstalling the controll center today and see what happens.

New Nvidia GeForce card installed in place of the ATI card today and all is well . The graphics are so much clearer now. The noise is gone now and I wonder if maybe the fan was not running properly. But what the hey for now!

I have been considering an extra fan also. The ATI had a fan but it didn't seem to help with the life time of the card. My sister loves to play her games on the comp but we mostly just use the older TV with a game console. The graphic work around here gets intense at times but not like a game. Hope you find a replacement you like. After seeing hers I may get one myself. The only difference that I can see is the sharpness. But the colors are basically the same now where as before hers was dull from the get go. For the first time we can both see the same image to work on or fight about which ever comes first. he he