nvidia 9800gtx+ bad color

[latrosicarius]

Has anyone ever heard of this problem? I just got a geforce 9800GTX+ and i uninstalled my NVIDIA drivers of my previous card (8800GTS), and then put in the new card and then powered up. The screen looks perfectly fine although its laggy when u move windows because no driver is installed yet.

So i install the drivers and upon reboot the colors SUCK. It's like everything is in 16-bit color, even though its clearly 32-bit. I dont know how to describe it. All the icons and text is just bad... it looks like everything is slightly ghosted.

so i uninstall drivers, reboot, everythings fine again. I did this multiple times with several driver versions (180.48, 180.70 [beta], 178.24). Did the same thing when i installed the drivers. everything looks BAD, but when I uninstall, its perfect (except obviously i cant play any games)

So I put in my old 8800GTS and installed the same drivers (180.48) and everything is super. But my 9800 is sitting uselessly on my desk. Do you think its a bad card? Should I return it? Or has anyone heard of this issue before and know of a fix?

thank you

My system is:
Mobo: ASUS A8N SLI Premium
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core (4200+, 2.21GHz)
OS: Win XP Pro w/ SP3 & all updates
DirectX 9.0c (current November 2008 redist)

[latrosicarius]

update: I was able to resolved this problem.

(1) I was not the only person with this problem.
(2) It has nothing to do with uninstalling drivers fully
(3) It has to do with a registry value needed during the installation of the drivers

Also:
- The problem is not specific to the 9800gtx+
- It is not mean you have a bad card or a hardware defect
- I did install my card on two completely different computers, with totally dissimilar hardware, including different monitors (one had a widescreen LCD via DVI-to-HDMI cable; the other had a 4:3 CRT via DVI-to-DSUB adapter + VGA cable), and the problem occurred on BOTH systems

Solution:
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?s...1&#entry475281

Thanks and hopefully this will help somebody