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.

A Bad Day.
Why does it always rain on me?

I had a day off on Monday, the reasons for this were that I'd just played a gig late Sunday night and also that my girlfriend (including dog) was moving in for a couple of weeks. The day consisted of:

My computer braking, got some parts from work to try, hopefully it'll just be a investment of time and not money as;

I have no money; I have no money so couldn't actually go out and do anything that day.

The dog that Katie brought round spent the day whining at us, so we put food & water in his bowls, he kept whining so we, took him for a walk, kept letting him outside when he went to the door. Guess what this wasn't good enough for him, no he waited for the last minute before spraying stinky arse doggy diarrhoea all over the place which I had to clean up.

To top it all off, this morning my car wouldn't start so I had to pop the bonnet check my connections ect check oil ect. Phone a friend for a lift into work just. Give it one last try just before I get the lift to work and it starts.

The reason I submit this items to you is to prove once and for all the existence of a higher being. Not only is there a higher being but he/she/it is pissed off with me for some reason. I don't know why............Although I have had a few people knocking on my door trying to preach the "word". I may of taken this as a opportunity to preach a few "words" of my own at them.