Is my video card dead?

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I have an old nvidia GTX570 that's been in a closet for a long time. Threw togeather a bunch of components I had to make a rig for a friend but I have a feeling the gpu is fried. The computer functions fine until you put a load on the video card. Games that require substantial video power will crash almost instantly when started and the computer goes to a solid light green screen and sound goes into a loop for about 20 seconds. Games like civ5 or counterstrike will play for a bit before either going to the same green screen or just the computer shutting off all the sudden. I am nearly positive this is a video card issue but I am not sure if it is fixable or if the card is just trash.

The motherboard is asus, chipset is AMD, the video card that originally was with this mobo was a radeon, hoping the problem is driver related or sonething.


Thanks
 
Solution
Can you test the GPU in a different PC? If it's defective and no longer under warranty, then it will probably cost more to get it fixed then buying another used one.