yeah your right.

I reinstalled XP using the OS disc not the recovery disks. I didn't want a bunch of compaq junk on my laptop.

But anyway, XP is using its default driver for the video. It should be a ATI video Card Driver but its just what XP provides. So thats probably my problem.

Thanks for your help

btw: tokeafatty its a compq presario 2500. P4 2.4 512 MB DDR Ram, ATI 64MB Video card, etc etc.