weird taskbar "flicker" "jumping" issue

A while back my taskbar in win 7 started jumping up and down rapidly whenever it isn't just my desktop displayed. I've updated my video drivers (AMD) but that didn't solve the problem.

It even happen when I am playing a full screen game - at least the area at the bottom where the task bar would be flickers. That makes it hard to read text that sometimes shows up in the bottom of the screen in games.

It looks like the task bar is going up and down rapidly. I took some video and posted it since video is worth millions of words:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JHgdylxgPU

Is happens randomly even if I'm not doing anything but it always happens as I type or move the cursor across the address bar. It's very annoying. Any ideas?

I've tried locking the task bar and autohiding it - didn't fix it. If I move the taskbar to the right side of the screen - the bottom area where the taskbar is normally in still flickers.

I have determined that it is not cause by my video card drivers. how? I uninstalled them in preparation to install new ones.. after uninstalling and rebooting - it still happened with no drivers installed.

Sounds like it's a video card failure, then. This isn't something that happens normally. Probably memory corruption/failure or something similar.

The one thing that makes me not think it is the video card is because it looks like the taskbar is moving up and down. It is not an actual flicker. It seems like it would be more of a Windows issue. i do have another video card to try out though. When I get time I'll swap it.

problem solved! I had changed the scaling settings when i had it hooked up to my 42" tv. changed it back to default and no more "flickering"

*happy dance*