Corrupt Display

[Niven]

I have a GF4 Ti 4600 that my m8 has given to me due to it being well... screwed.
When I turn on the comp the GPU Bios and standard Bios are corrupt.
They look ok but have corrupt text or color text.
The corruption is always the same, i.e the B in BIOS is always green.

When the card gets to windows it looks like it heavily overclocked.
The mouse pointer leaves heavy trails n stuff.

Is this card ready for the bin or is there something I can try?

[kromosto]

check its core and mem speed and if they are different then stock start decreasing them and flash with a suitable bios

[Niven]

Hmm its changed since I last tried it.
This time the \BIOS display is no longer colored just crrupt.
It loads into Windows and displays a strange pattern on screen.
The mouse cursor is no longer leaving trails but one bigger problem has arisen.
Once I install the drivers, it no longer boots into windows(monitor goes off after loading screen.

I wsh I could post an image to show you what I mean...

[Niven]

Is it possible for a card to be overclocked and somehow hold the settings, even after being on a shelf for months?

Im also thinking it could be a corrupt bios but I flashed it with a newer BIOS and its still the same.

Maybe its just dead :(


When you guys kill Cards what generally happens?
Do they just stop working or do they sometimes do some other things?

[kromosto]

if you flash that 4600 bios then it cant hold its oc anymore

[Niven]

Ahh I see, I guess its pretty much ready for a tip to GPU Heaven then.
Thanks m8 :D