Video issue

[phat controlla]

hey guys i have a similar problem i bought a foxconn 9600 gt video card recently to play fallout 3. my computer meets all the requirements for the game except for my processor i have a 2.0ghz and supposed to have 2.4ghz was playng the game fine at first but the screen went garbled during play after about an hour. then i reloaded the game and still the same problem.
next day tried the game and worked no worries but tried again today and having the same problem again. the windows xp startup also goes garbled as video card kicks in then screen is fine after startup unless i play the game.
Just wondering what it could be? is it a dodgy video card or something else?

thanks Mark

[phat controlla]

This morning, one of my computers started acting up. The computer locked up and the screen was flashing. The image was the same, from where the computer froze, but it got brighter and dimmer.

When I rebooted, the POST screen had a bunch of garbage, mostly a bunch of "("s, with some of the text readable and some garbled. The computer finished booting normally, only to have the initial problem repeat. I rebooted again and it started normally, only to lock up on the windows splash screen.

I haven't made any changes to the computer recently.

Any attempt to reboot results in any of the above problems. Money is tight right now, so I don't want to buy a new video card just to test.

So does this sound like my video card went bad?

Thank you.


forgot to say system shuts down to blue screen while in game now