Service Pack 2 Issues.

My hard drive crashed today so I formatted it and re-installed windows. I started updating things including service pack 1 and then the 60 updates after it. After that I installed service pack 2 and rebooted my computer. It seemed to be loading fine but when it got to the windows screen, it looked all messed up like I picked a bad resolution or something. I did change my resolution to 1280x1024 earlier and it looked just fine. I haven't installed my video card drivers yet though. I tried booting in safe mode and vga mode, I do not have on-board video that I could use if the video card is the problem. I hope there is something I can do without re-installing windows again.

Thank you.


Windows XP Professional
512MB ram
Ati Radeon 9600 Pro
Pentium 4 2.4Ghz
Motherboard: Fujitsu-Siemens D1675

 

Just an FYI, you dont need to Install MS SP1, just install SP2, SP2 has all the components of SP1

 

You must have misunderstood what I meant. I actually couldn't get into windows. I could just get to the screen that says Windows XP Professional, which locked up and looked strange. Since then, I have formatted my hard drive again and I tried it again. I installed the video card drivers after installing net framework 1.1, even though it said I needed 2.0, it went through anyway. After that, I tried re-installing my video card drivers in case there was something that didn't install right the first time. After I did that the same thing happened as before. It was the most recent catalyst driver, so I'm thinking I need a new video card. To give you an idea, it looked something like this: http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/5331/xperrorch2.jpg

 

If you look in Display Properties, what screen resolution is it saying you have ?