Not stupid. DC and new drivers was the first thing I tried. :p
I'll try reseating the card, putting it in another slot, flashing its BIOS, etc.
eVGA already approved my Advance RMA, so they'll be cross-shipping me a new card soon. I'll be able to compare and check if my card really did...
To clarify, I never, never touched my VC BIOS. Just did some "relatively" light-weight overclocking through ATITool. I was just thinking that the card might have gotten its BIOS corrupted somehow, but this is doubtful.
eVGA has a BIOS "update" on their website. Should I try flashing my VC and...
Well, I was testing under ATItool and started to get artifacts within seconds. The system locked up again and I'm back to square one.
I'm tired of this and have activated my Advanced RMA. Hopefully, I'll have a new, A3 revision card to replace this one...
EDIT: I don't think its my power...
Well, flashing the mobo BIOS didn't work. i still get corruption, these little green dots scattered across the screen, in the boot screen and xp progress bar...
EDIT: Strange. After leaving the computer off for an hour or so, the corruption in the BIOS and start-up disappeared. After...
There's corruption in the boot-up screen too, but none in windows XP when there are no drivers. Could it be that the BIOS on my card got corrupted? Is that a possibility? I really don't want to RMA this card...
Trying older drivers...
I'll flash my mobo BIOS in a few minutes.
Then I'll flash...
Ok, so recently, I had some problems while I was in Windows. Every few seconds the entire screen would freeze and I wouldn't be able to do anything. I would briefly get back control, and then it would stop. Thinking it was my video card, I tried changing the overclock settings through ATITool...