Problem with artifacts

[irish23]

I had transfered my computer from my dads house to my moms to use over the weekend. When i started using it it was fine, i was listening to some music and playing company of heroes when artifacts started appearing on my screen. I first took off teh side of the case and put a house fan next to it thinking it was overheating. My next thought was i had overloaded my system i turned off my music and continued to play but it only got worse and soon i had purple dots all over my screen. I then uninstalled my drivers and reinstalled them and rebooted, after rebooting i noticed that the first screen had like 6 lines of artifacts in it and when it was between the first screen and the windows loading page it was completely filled up with letters and all kinds of artifacts. It then went to the BSOD. I rebooted in safe mode and tryed to system restore with no avail. So i start it up it gets through and to the desktop but the screen looks like this:

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c322/fightinirishrule/ff.jpg

I'm not quite sure what the problem is, me and a friend think its either the psu or gpu any help would be appreciated.

SPECS
Anthlon 3200+ OC'ed to 2.3
512 ddr ram
eVga 6600gt stock clocks
MSI k8n nForce 4
420 watt PSU
Aspire Case With 4 fans
150 GB Western Digital SATA

 

[Modular]

What PSU are you using? We need to know the brand and the amperage on the 12-volt rail.

That screen is messed up badly and I'm betting that the video card is done. Good thing it's an eVGA. They have a lifetime warranty.

 

[GalvanizedYankee]

Is that an Expire/AssFire PSU? Get rid of it!

 

[irish23]

+12sub1&2 = 14 amps

-12V1.0 amps

turbo link Switch power supply
yeah ill prolly get it RMA'ed

 

[rcomo]

Since you physically moved the computer and now you are having issues, it could be your card became loose. Pull out your vid card and reset it. Check the PSU connectiong as well.

 

[irish23]

I have re-seated it and what do you mean by the psu condition

 

[IEC]

Also, check the capacitors on your video card - I had a similar issue with the GF4 bad cap fiasco... an RMA may be in order if it's the vid card. If there's another system you can test it in you should try it out to verify functionality. Otherwise it's your crappy PSU... in my experience crappy PSUs at best give up the ghost, and at worst, fry system components.