Open Office problem

Something strange has happened to all the icons on the toolbars in OpenOffice, so they are nearly unrecognisable. As below:



I've tried reinstalling but with no luck...

 

Looks to me light a graphics card problem.

Have you done an A/V scan aswell?

 

Its the ONLY area where the colours are messed up... Surely a graphics card problem would be more all-encompassing?

And I'm AV scanning as I type...

 

AV scan was fine

 

Ok, apparently it's not the only area where this happens. The Creative utility that came with my sound card also has problems:

 

try reinstalling your video card drivers.

 

And so it all goes in circles.

I'll try one last time to download them, and if not, I'll reinstall the older ones that ame with the CD...

 

Turn your graphics card acceleration DOWN to none.

Then increment it slowly if it works

 

*Sigh*... every time I think I'm getting pretty good at this whole knowing what to do thing... Someone comes along and ruins it

How do I do that?

 

Control panel -> display properties -> settings -> advanced -> troubleshoot

 

Nope, the problem remains.

 

Try changing the settings in the Display Properties to 16bit.

 

i had a simular problem when i was using a low power PSU maby yours is having problems

 

Is your graphic card overclocked? If so, try lowering the clocks... Is it overheating? Maybe a poor contact between heatsink and core/memory?

 

Well considering you had trouble instaling the nVidia drivers in the first place, i'd go along that route. When you downloaded the drivers originaly, did you try downloading them from the card manufacturers site rather than direct from nVidia? Sometimes manufacturers have to modify the drivers to work with their cards.

To be honest, i'd try a format, at least that way we can find out if it is a software problem or a hardware problem. If its a software problem it will be fixed and if its a hardware problem then you can return the offending component.