T128 FX5200 graphics card gives poor quality TV display

I recently bought an MSI T128 FX5200 card and a Mega Sky USB TV receiver. I initially installed the TV USB card and this worked fine. However, as soon as I installed the graphics card the display was degraded. There is a poor picture, but it is washed out, garish, pixellated and indistinct (as if the display settings were very basic). I get the same problem with mpeg video on Windows Media Player. Having tested the graphics card using 3DMark 2001 it gives a perfectly respectable score of over 4662 - which suggests the hardware is working fine.
My set-up is:
Sempron 2200+ processor
Socket A MSI Motherboard MS-7061
512 Mb PC2700 Crucial memory
T128 FX5200 graphics card (passive cooling)
Monitor - Hansol 710P - 17" CRT
Current Display mode 1024 x 768 (32 bit)
Direct X version: 9.0c
Windows XP (sp2)
I have tried fiddling around with BIOS settings (e.g. turning off shared graphics and changing to 4X AGP instead of 8X) and display settings but to no avail. I don't want to remove my graphics card to be able to watch TV - rather defeats the objective of getting a graphics card. Any suggestions?

SORTED!
Thanks a lot for the advice Dr Stu - although I'm not clear whether it was your advice specifically that sorted the problem. Here's what I did:
I removed all Via Uichrome IGP drivers and utilities via Add/Remove Programs off the Control Panel.
I closed Windows XP down and went in to BIOS. Changed to AGP 4X and turned off FastWrites and disabled shared VGA memory.
Installed FX5200 T128.
On entering Windows loaded drivers for FX5200 from CD-ROM that came with T128. Everything worked fine. I've since reverted to AGP 8X and enabled Fastwrites - with no adverse effects. So, it's unlikely that this was the source of the problem (I had tried turning them off before receiving your advice).
The strange thing is, I'm pretty convinced I did all of the above previously. So the chances are that I'd failed to delete some of the VIA drivers properly even though I thought I'd done so. I turned off my internet connection, to make sure that the drivers weren't updated on the sly. I thought I'd done this before as well - but who knows.
I suppose the moral for me is to be meticulous - and not to asssume I've done things properly first time!
Thanks again for the help, if nothing else you inspired me to have another bash at sorting things when I'd given up.
Now I will be looking for advice to sort out my MSI Mega Sky Usb Digital TV drive....

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