Quote Originally Posted by Khaotic
This sounds to me like the nasty PEG LINK mode option in the BIOS is affecting these cards even before any serious 3D Function calls are being made.
If you don't already know - PEG LINK is feature on nearly all boards, just called different things by different vendors, but it overclocks the card at boot-up and its handled by the motherboard. It handles nVidia and ATI cards differently. In my experience, it's never been a good thing. If you're running the "entire" system at stock/default levels - sure it can help. But, who the heck does that? Go into the BIOS and turn that nasty PEG LINK mode to NORMAL and see how things go then.
i see, I come from a AGP board i didn't know this.
But i have to say i booted a few times fine and could install drivers, but running 3dmark gave heavy artifacts and all of a sudden i got those artis in post and black screen when in windows.
Could it be that the motherboard screwed the video card because of the oc?