screen showing tearing in 2D

[Matthew A.]

Recently I have been noticing areas of "tearing" for lack of better word, on my screen while running windows 98. It goes away if I right click on the desktop and choose the refresh option to refresh the screen. Is this a possible sign that either my video card and/or monitor is near to die. Aside from this appearing now and then, my screen is as sharp as ever. Even at the corners. I only notice this while running 2D applications and not while playing 3D games. I don't believe it is a driver issue since I have recently gone from using Nvidia 6.50 reference to the much more bug free 7.58 beta drivers for my Asus Gforce256 SDR video card. ???

[asmodean]

Before scrapping your card, try the more newer detonators, 10.xx, 11.xx & 12.xx. If that doesn't solve your problem, I'd say it's something to do with the RAMDAC in the card. I think. I find it quite odd that your 3D display doesn't get corrupted.