hey,
I had this problem on my computer before, but that's when it was running windows 98se. What happened was that i had an onboard video card with driver installed, and then later added a raedon 9600, and forgot to uninstall the driver. The graphics in 3d hardware accellerated games would be distored in a way that really looked like blocks of solid colour flashing and moving on the screen, sometimes looking like rays of light comming from some origin. Anyway, i realized what the problem was eventually and uninstalled the drivers. Now, I reformatted and put windows xp on my computer, and the same thing is happening, however, I can't find the s3 drivers on my computer. I looked in the add/remove programs list where i found them in windows 98, but they're not there. I've noticed XP is stupified for people, and installs things behind they're back so that they don't have to worry about it, and i think maybe that's what's happening. Is there any way to remedy this? or does anyone have any other thoughts of what it might be? i'm pretty sure it's the same problem as before, it's just that windows xp is still pretty foreign to me and i'm still getting used to it. any help would be apprectiated. Thanks.
Eric