Just installed a ge force fx5500 graphics card but with the maximum settings of 1280 x 1024 the screen contents still looks stretched. Any suggestions?

For best graphics and zero stretch select the highest resolution that your LCD supports. Which is the resolution of 1440X900

Right click on your desktop and select properties.
Click the Settings tab.
Slide the resolution Bar to the resolution of 1440X900
Also select (Highest 32Bit) colour quality on the right of the resolution bar.
Click Apply then Ok.

If you are not able to select the resolution of 1440X900 then you should update your graphics card drivers to the latest version.

To download the latest drivers for your graphics card click here.
Select the following:
Geforce
Geforce 5 FX Series
Geforce FX 5500
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Norman-Wynne Damstra

Hi complicatedt,

Yes, it is normal, that's why graphic cards nowadays has it's own cooling fan.
The heating of the cards also depend on the system requirement of a program or game.

Hope this will help you.

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G32 board has no agp slot ....
and the card you are using is AGP NVIDIA GE FORCE XFX 5500 ...
g31 has 16x pci slot so buy PCI card not AGP...

Any card with an AGP interface is supported, just that the power of a new video card is severely limited by the capabilities of the motherboard and everything else on it (processor, memory, hard disk).
Ge-force FX5500 256MB is a good card but you can get something a little more powerfull, something like
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3092427&CatId=318

Hi,

As far as i know 1GB graphics card is required for play call of duty. 256 MB is very low video memory to run this game so its not working on your card.

I recommend you that. Please upgrade your graphics Card to Nvidia GE Force 9400 GT 1GB.

Thanks.

Happy to help you.

you might try a lower resolution . or  roll back the driver to a older version  GeForce FX5500  93.71

you can use the driver from nvidia's website

The problem is the cable connection to the video card.
When using the DVI output of the FX 5500, the maximum screen resolution that you can select is 1280 x 1024.

But, if you use the Analog (VGA) output, the card will support resolutions up to 2048 x 1536, which should be ok.

From your post, it seems like Windows is booting correctly, but your card isn't correctly displaying the signal once the machine tries to load into your user profile.

Go into Safe Mode and uninstall the drivers for the card. Go back to the beginning of the installation process and follow it step-by-step. If this does not help, try inserting the card first, and then installing the drivers afterwards.