Weird display corruption

[gevorg]

Hi all,

Even though recently I haven't done any hardware changes, one day when I turned on my computer, here is what I saw (see pics below). Those distortions move and change while the state of what is being shown on the monitor changes. Sometimes for a short time it goes normal and then back to this.

It shows those distortions even when it goes through POST. I tried to re-seat the graphic card and turn off agp fast writes to no avail. Not sure what else to do.

What can it be, a bad video card or a motherboard? Is it possible to fix it?

Thanks for any suggestions/comments.

System Specs:
Asus K7N-Deluxe (nForce 3)
AIW Radeon 9700 Pro

Monitor photo 1
Monitor Photo 2 (zoomed)

 

[ronnn]

If you get that on your bios screen, likely a dead card.