PLEASE HELP!!!!Screen a mess after running update

Not sure just what i did, but ran windows update today, and when it restarted
everything is a mess.. tried taking windows 8 off, still a mess.. only 4 bit
color.. and won't change on screen. I've tried resetting it but it keeps
going back to 4 bit... Plus the screen is grainy. When i'm in settings trying
to reset the color it says Display:Plug and play monitor on NVIDIA GeForce FX
5200. Think I have that right.
In Add/remove programs there is a program *NVIDIA Windows 2000XP Display
Drivers, but I'm afraid to remove that.. I did remove Windows IE Explorer 8.
Can someone please tell me my best move.

By Windows 8, are you meaning IE 8?

You could try to do a system restore to a point before you intalled the
update.

Go to Help in Windows (I assume XP) and type in System Restore.

"bonkk" <> wrote in message
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> Not sure just what i did, but ran windows update today, and when it
> restarted
> everything is a mess.. tried taking windows 8 off, still a mess.. only 4
> bit
> color.. and won't change on screen. I've tried resetting it but it keeps
> going back to 4 bit... Plus the screen is grainy. When i'm in settings
> trying
> to reset the color it says Display:Plug and play monitor on NVIDIA GeForce
> FX
> 5200. Think I have that right.
> In Add/remove programs there is a program *NVIDIA Windows 2000XP Display
> Drivers, but I'm afraid to remove that.. I did remove Windows IE Explorer
> 8.
> Can someone please tell me my best move.

bonkk wrote:
> Not sure just what i did, but ran windows update today, and when it
> restarted everything is a mess.. tried taking windows 8 off, still
> a mess.. only 4 bit color.. and won't change on screen. I've tried
> resetting it but it keeps going back to 4 bit... Plus the screen is
> grainy. When i'm in settings trying to reset the color it says
> Display:Plug and play monitor on NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200. Think I
> have that right.
> In Add/remove programs there is a program *NVIDIA Windows 2000XP
> Display Drivers, but I'm afraid to remove that.. I did remove
> Windows IE Explorer 8. Can someone please tell me my best move.

Visit the Nvidia Web page and download the latest software/drivers for the
card you have.

Install them.

Reboot.

Change your resolution and color depth and fix up your machine.

When doing Windows Updates - do not install hardware drivers from
Microsoft - after all - they did not make your hardware... (Most likely...)

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