Video problem: Take a peek

[Beller0ph1]

Hey video forum,

I'm usually an OffTopic poster, but I thought I would venture into Video for some help with my system. Just about 2 weeks ago, my near 3-year old build started acting funny. The image on both monitors (dual head setup) will flicker, then put up something like a plaid pattern. Pictures are in the links.

Initial Pattern
They should make shirts like this
Wait, I think that one is in my closet!
These patterns appear on both monitors.

At first I thought it was just a driver issue: rebooting solved it.
Then it started getting worse, reboots didn't fix it anymore.
So I booted into Safe Mode, uninstalled the ATI driver, and reinstalled it.
That fixed my problem...for a while.
One day I restarted into Safe Mode, and it happened in Safe Mode! Oh noes! It's not apparently a driver issue.
So I rebooted again, and this time it started freaking out in the BIOS. This lead me to think that it is a problem with my video card. What do you all think?

Specs:
ATI 9500 PRO 128MB
NEC Multisync FE991SB and some no-name monitor
Latest ATI drivers
Windows XP Pro
All running on a

 

[mwmorph]

video card dying. RMA time.

 

[Beller0ph1]

Woot! Looks like I'm still within ATI's 3 year warranty period!

 

[Greenman]

Ati has great turn around time on rma's. When my old 9800pro died I had a new one 2 days after they recived the dead one.

 

[mwmorph]

good news is you'll probably get a better card since ati no longer makes 9500pros. you'll probably get a 9600pro which overclocks very well.

 

[Beller0ph1]

Sweet! Can't wait to get home and get my information off the card to get the RMA stuff started.

 

[Beller0ph1]

ATI gave me an RMA number, we'll just have to see what they say about my poor graphics card.

 

[lavaheadache]

I'm excited for ya