Ok, I went and purchased the video card from Staples. It was a Diamond Stealth Radeon 9250. I unplugged everything, installed the card and hooked up the DVI cable. I plugged the power cord back in and turned on my PC and BOOM! The account screen that comes up when you turn on XP was HUGE and I had to scroll down to pick my account. Everything booted up like normal and I went into properties and settings and I had a bunch more resolution options and it immediately went to 1920x1080 like I was hoping for. I didn't even have to install the driver that came with the card nor did I have to disable the old graphics via bios. *censored*, I even still had the VGA cable hooked up too so I eventually just unplugged it.
Here's my issue now. My desktop background is full screen and centered and I didn't have to change it. However, I have no task bar at the bottom, thus no start menu, clock, etc. I noticed that when I minimize something it goes off to the right and towards the bottom. When I drag my mouse over there I can tell that it goes past the edge and doesn't reappear until after I scroll back left what would be a couple inches or so. I have changed to multiple resolutions and the problem persists. What's the fix here guys. I messed with the monitor settings too and I can't shrink it horizontally or vertically as they aren't choosable now and I made sure the input source was changed from analog to digital dvi. Thanks for any help.
