So I had some torn images on screen. The login screen for vista 64 would perpetually partially appear or have tearing and then eventually fully load. I thought this was being caused by damaged ram on the video card, so I got an RMA with the manufacturer, and bought an inexpensive other card (partially because I wanted a backup card anyway) to use while it was being RMA'd. Same problem exists, with a different video card. I'm wondering if the tearing/broken login screen might be caused by something else? I'm a little at a loss.
Anyway, specs are
i7 920
MSI Eclipse X58
GTX 260 (formerly)
Radeon 4770 (for the moment)
Asus Xonar DX sound card
PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750
couple hard drives, optical drives, basic stuff
3x2 gigs DDR3 1333 Corsair XMS3
Vista x64
Anyway, specs are
i7 920
MSI Eclipse X58
GTX 260 (formerly)
Radeon 4770 (for the moment)
Asus Xonar DX sound card
PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750
couple hard drives, optical drives, basic stuff
3x2 gigs DDR3 1333 Corsair XMS3
Vista x64