No tools show selection

Hi, First of all I'd like to say that I've looked through pages and pages of this forum looking for the answer to my following problem...I appologise if it's already been covered and I've missed the post...
Vista home premium 32bit
Photoshop CS4 Extended
Problem I got is that no matter what tool I use, (marquee, wand, lassoo, ellipse) etc, I don't see the area/marching ants that is being selected untill I release the mouse button.
eg, open image in Ps
select rectangle marquee tool
place mouse arrow on image
left click once and hold
drag pointer to required point
Nothing different shown on screen No marching ant box
Release left mouse button
Marching ant box is now seen.
Same pc being used that has photoshop 7 on and that prog runs fine, or at least as it should do...
Have checked prog settings and couldn't find anything obvious.
Have also tried changing vista visual settings to no avail...
Kev

Thanks for the quick response John,
Currently running Ps 11.0.1
Latest NVidia drivers etc for GPU (Checked hour ago with NVidia website just in case)
And had already re-set preferences and settings to default.
However, I do seem to remember when first installed Ps seeing a pop up box from Adobe saying to update graphics for full gpu acceleration, I ticked box "do not show this msg again" and proceeded to NVidia site to update....That was about two months ago now though and haven't seen that pop up since....Obviously!!
Kev
****UPDATE****
Have managed to fix the problem by going to "Enable OpenGL Drawing" under Photoshop > Preferences > Performance and untick the box to switch it off!!!
Just need to test the program again to see what the repercussions are going to be...

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