Needing some help sorting out a vid card issue

[SPUDLEY1977]

Sounds like you have defective vidcard. SOmetimes the best diagnostics are swapping a bad item for one that works. The date of NVIDIA drivers shouldnt matter, my experience is that older less "unified drivers" give me more FPS, so i stick with those. So you have reseated, swapped another card, and reinstalled and it is NO GO...I would agree RMA time.

Good luck sir and let us know how this ends up.

PEACE

[BadAim]

Good luck M8.

[bomath]

Allow me to doubt that the card is defective; I think 75% of the RMAs are not justified, and the vendors only send back replacements because they don't want the bad PR that would come from some loudmouths there.

I see that you did almost everything BUT a nice clean install for the Windows. I had the exact same experience a couple of times, when switching from nVidia to ATI cards and back to nVidia, solved only by a clean Win reinstall.