A botched software install screwed up my monitor's drivers?

Hi,

Sorry to bother you w/a lowly question. I just bought Sony's Vegas editing program. It wouldn't install, but managed to thoroughly screw up my monitor's drivers(?)... My monitor now won't show the whole screen. There are blackened areas at top & bottom of screen. I have to move the inner view around by placing my mouse on the borders... How do I fix this, please? I tried downloading the DirctX driver again. It didn't work.

Thank You.

 

Oh brother... I just tried watching a video on Amazon. It's garbled a bit. Do I have to reinstall everything???

 

Hi,

Thank You for replying. I tried updating drivers yesterday. No Joy. The problems continued. Later that night, I found the system restore. At first, I thought it didn't work. Then, this morning, all is normal again. I guess it required one more reboot(?).

While I have your ear, though. Another basic question, please. I have a ten year old, custom built system. It has an ATI Radeon 9500 Pro video card. If I buy a newer LCD monitor. Will I be able to simply plug N play it through the card's DVI port?

Thanks again.

 

OK, Thank You, brother. :wave