  New graphics card, blue screen  Discussion in 'Audio and
Video' started by itch, Jul 27, 2008.    1. itch Newcomer, in
training      Hi everyone, I'm new here.      Quick history of
my comp's problems:     -Bought it and from day 1 it had a blue
screen error problem. I tried to track it down myself, but
eventually sent it back to where I bought it and they fixed it
telling me it was the motherboard.      -Got it back and there
were no more blue screens. Hurray! However, while playing games
I started noticing strange graphical artifacts (terrain
stretching etc). It wasn't a huge problem though, so I ignored
it (foolishly).      -The graphics card seemed to get worse and
worse until eventually I started getting graphical glitches on
the desktop (and following the mouse cursor) and it could no
longer play most games without overheating and crashing. I had
left it too long to do anything about it and it was out of
warranty.      -So I bought a new one to replace it (GeForce
8800GT), which I installed earlier th