Need help with video card

Have you checked your temps on the GPU? Where are they at currently?

Hmm, wow that's weird. Might try an older driver version and see if that works. Just in case there's some issue/conflict going on there. This one is probably a little over my head. Wish I could help more.

Did you recently install any other drivers or software that could be causing this? Perhaps an Addon/plugin for WoW that just got installed/updated?

Other than that, dunno. Worst case could be the video card itself.. which would suck.

Download the drivers directly from Nvidia's website at www.nvidia.com. They just released an update, but you should try the older drivers since you had no problems with those. Then let us know how that worked.

If things were good with your old driver go back to the old one
or wait for the next driver update
And please always keep your old driver somewhere on your HDD before updating
Just in case you need it like what happened now
Do not panic, your graphic card is OK
But you mean you cleaned out Video card / PC with dust cleaner ????
Hope you did not use the dust cleaner you use for your house cleaning !!!!!!!!!!!!
It will generate Static Electric Charge and you'll zap something
I lost one graphic card because of it
Use a can of compressed air

Yes, i did use compressed air, I'll give the old driver another chance i just get get ahold of it cause of some DEP on vista everytime i go to the nvidia page it restarts firefox.

Have you tryed a system restore?

Well for $100-120, you can get an Nvidia 8800GS or an ATi 3850 or an Nvidia 8600GT or an Nvidia 9600GSO or....

Try this - - follow these steps to a T!!!

1) Download Driver Cleaner from Guru3d.com: http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=745
2) Install Driver Cleaner, but do NOT run it yet.
3) Download the Nvidia 169 drivers based on the choices below to your desktop:

*Vista 32-Bit: http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvi [...] _whql.html
*Vista 64-Bit: http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvi [...] _whql.html

4) Uninstall the current Nvidia drivers using the Start>Control Panel>Add or Remove Programs function.
5) Reboot into Safe Mode
6) Windows will try to detect and install drivers, just click cancel when that screen appears.
7) Run driver cleaner, completely removing the Nvidia drivers.
8) Reboot your computer.
9) Window will try to detect and install drivers, just click cancel when that screen appears.
10) Double-click on the Nvidia drivers you downloaded for your system and install. Once installed, reboot.

How did that work?

Oi! You're F'd in the A!

I'm starting to think the GPU has become flawed. Thinking it's going kaput. Considering you formatted (I'm assuming you mean reinstalled Windows entirely), and can't get any driver version to install properly, there's probably a hardware issue going on.

Far as new video cards go, check Tom's monthly lists. They update a list each month to show what the best cards are in certain price brackets.

http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] ,1942.html

You can also wait a few days and see if they post a Best of July list, which might offer some changes (more so in the $200+ categories I'd guess) as some new stuff was recently released.

Personally, if you can afford the extra money, I'd go for the $150 mark and pick between an ATI 3870 or GeForce 9600GT.

For $125 you can do a GeForce 9600GSO or ATI 3850.

Those are June's picks, so July could change.

Ok, one more question I am going to be spending about 130$, I have this ASUS A8M2N-LA as my mobo, and a 430w PSU Thermaltake, I dont think i have a 2.0 pcie slot , maybe wrong can someone pick me out the best card for what i have.