NVIDIA drivers for Vista suck (updated to include Win 7 and Server 2008 r2)

Card isn't defective, I covered all of that in earlier posts, works fine in XP and XP64.

Well, just as an update. The same problem exists in Windows Server 2008 r2. Works with generic drivers just fine, once nvidia's are installed it corrupts badly. I had to enable Aero to fix it (if you see above, it only happened when UAC was there, dumping back to 'classic' theme). Enabling Aero was a chore because I couldn't read anything on screen, I had to try all the steps here on Windows 7 and try to do it by keyboard, then do the same keystrokes over on Server 2008 to get it enabled. Finally got it though and all is well.

So I might backpedal a bit on calling it directly a driver issue, it could be that I need to tweak something in the bios about AGP... perhaps something with write caching or aperture size...

@SNGX
Given your huge problems, would it not be better to just keep the generic drivers? Reading this thread, I don't get the impression you need it for performance intensive GPU use.

Your definitely dedicated. After approx 3 years I'd certainly have given up on it and either used generic drivers, or replaced the card! Respect is due for your patience!

Well, it would be nice to use it as a secondary gaming PC for slightly older games. The problem, at least with Server 2008, is the generic drivers won't let me use 1280x1024. Also there was a long delay between the last one and this update was because I let a fellow Techspotter borrow the board until he could scrape together enough money for a new system after his main one had a motherboard die. He just used a PCIe graphics card on it and didn't have any issues.

It was more of a problem in Vista because of UAC. UAC dumps it to classic mode (at least partially) or if you ran a program that wasn't compatible with Aero it would dump the whole system to Classic. Classic is the only place that has the corruption. Now with Server 2008 and Aero enabled the only time I ever see the corruption is at the login screen, once logged in and it jumps to Aero all is well.