Raging Against The Machine


Got a bit of a problem with my PC at home, any help & suggestions would be appriciated:

Problem:
Booted up the PC one day, logged in. Monitor blinked off and on like it would if you'd just resized your resolution. It now keeps doing that whenever it does anything, it also causes corruption of the display after a while. A reboot doesn't help.
Uninstalling the Graphics card from Windows stops the problem happening, however this leaves me with out proper graphics.
I've tried doing a system restore from going back to about a month ago (to give it ample room incase something screwy happened recently).
I have tried downloading and installing the latest drivers, no change same thing happens.
I also tried a differant monitor, but the same thing happened.

My Hypothesis:
Something wrong with the graphics card. Either
A. Screwy drivers
B. Actual graphics card death (then why would it still display ok without the drivers installed?)

Recommendation:
A. Try and find original disks that came with computer for original drivers (where the chuff are they?).
B. Try uninstalling the drivers then running a driver cleaing program to get rid of any guff that may be left interfearing with the drivers I'm installing.
C. Borrow a graphics card, see if it works ok with that.
D. Get a Mac.

Here's the tech specs:

Operating System:Windows XP Home Edition UK with SP2
Power Supply: 700 Watt Multi-GPU Power Supply
Motherboard: NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI Motherboard
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ Processor w/ HyperTransport and Dual Core Technology
Memory: 2GB DDR2 PC-6400 SDRAM at 800MHz - 2 x 1024MB
Video Card: 256MB PCI-Express x16 NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT
System Drive: 250 GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s, 7,200 rpm w/ 8MB Cache
Storage Drive: 250 GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s, 7,200 rpm w/ 8MB Cache
Monitor: Iiyama 19" CRT.