New 7800GTX dead?

[NatePo717]

So I was playing a few games today without a problem. I stop playing and hop onto the internet for some forum brousing. I then notice these green dots appearing all over my monitor. Then it starts to lock up on me. So I restart and in the bios screen I see this video tearing all over the place then something like the matrix happens on my computer. Is there any way to fix this or is it fvcked?

 

[moonboy403]

maybe updating your driver would help?
i once had tearing on mine as well
that's after accidentally pouring water onto the card while i was removing my watercooling setup
then i thought i dried it but apparently didn't and the tearing was all over my screen
then it wouldn't even display jack
but then after a couple of days....miracle happened
i plugged the card back into my motherboard
i fired up just fine and now it's completely normal!!!

 

[VERTIGGO]

thats weird, similar stuff happened to my X850xt, only the thing is, I get a matrix of red dots across the screen if I overclock my card after it was damaged... I guess the ATi cards use red instead of Nvidia green, but anyway! my problems were caused when I overclocked way too far by accident, and the fan control shut off, so my card overheated, and was also underpowered by a "thermaltake 430W" psu, but as soon as I got an OCZ modstream520, it never locked up again. I still get the red matrix (dots about every inch or so) across the screen if I'm overclocking very much, so it limits my performance now.


advice, don't melt your GPU