I recently had my display go insane on me while playing an MMORPG (the name of which I will keep to myself for fear of ridicule). The colours inverted and there was a huge amount of cross hatching on the display in general. Soon after this the system shut down and attempted to restart. I was able to get it to restart in safe mode but starting windows normally created a "infinite loop" with the graphics driver. While I was able to get it going in safe mode please note that display was still not itself and was showing cross hatching and incorrect colours.
I took my system round to see my dad who knows a bit more about these things than myself and he assured me after changing the BIOS settings to enable onboard graphics that it was my graphics card (was running an Nvidia 8600 GTS 256Mb) and if I get a new one and install it there would be no further problems. I then ordered the new card and installed it (an Nvidia 9600GT 512Mb DDR3) and up until this morning everything ran beautifully. When I went to start the system this morning the cross hatching and colour problems were back and I was unable to get the computer to start in anything but safe mode. My limited experience with hardware inside the case would suggest that since both graphics cards have had issues and 1 was brand spanking new that it is more likely to be the PCI slot that I installed it into.
I would love some more experienced feedback on this. Further information that may be of some relevance is that my dad also recently replaced the mother board due to a boot issue that I was experiencing. Help me please!
