Basically, I've managed to restore my system rather nicely after a fatal crash that corrupted some system files in the OS a few day ago. However, I haven't been able to get hardware accelleration or the direct x features to work properly.

Now I know when I first installed this system, I had that same trouble, but I had forgotten to install my video card drivers and once I had done that, I got everything working again. This time though, the drivers do install, but it doesn't seem to make a difference as I still am locked in to the default monitor that 2003 sets the video driver to when it doesn't know what your card is. I haven't been able to, or can't find where I could change this either.

I have a GeForce FX 5200 Ultra 128MB. I was also recently astounded that neither MS nor nVidia actually support this combination of OS and video card, yet I have plenty of screens of games I had been playing on it (AO, GW, HL2).

Also, the other one, which isn't too important, but purely for aesthetics, the skin tweak described in the guide to get the system working as a workstation. It doesn't seem to like skins at all, or maybe the tweak is corrupt or something, I'm not sure. When I try to change it to watercolour (the one shown in the guide, which is personally quite nice), the preview part shows just the wallpaper and if I actually apply that, it just changes the colours of the windowing.

I also had this working before and had used the old install files for it that got it working. What is wrong with the system? It seems half there, as in even with the recover (which is practically a reinstall), something's missing.

Nevermind, I had to reinstall cause everything was screwed beyond repair.