Did I get a bad vid card?

I FINALLY got this thing together! New build:

AMD Athlon 64x2 5000+

2 gigs OCZ DDR2 800

320 gig WD sata hdd

Radeon HD4670 card

Now, everything was fine when I first booted up. Installed mobo drivers, everything was good.

I installed the vid card drivers, and it prompted me to restart. When it re-booted, the black XP loading screen came up, green bar moved fine, etc. From there, it went to a blank blue screen, and then to a white kinda striped screen.

I yanked the card, plugged the monitor straight into the mobo's jack, and now it boots fine and I am posting this from it. Of course, the resolution is low and the scroll lags, but it works.

The fan on the card runs, but I am thinking this HAS to be the vic card being bad. Am I correct? Just want to verify before I RMA.

Thanks!

no, the onboard video couldnt be doing that, are there any metals touching the motherboard or graphics card? that could be short circuiting it... look around your case and look for a screws that could be underneath the mobo or any other metal objects touching it.
id hate to have to tell you its your graphics card man, but im not sure what else it could be. you could take ghmage's advice and go into BIOS and disable your onboard video...

Personally I disagree with rambo.. I have heard of a lot of problems when not disabling onboard graphics cards. So its diffently worth a try, and anyways what could it hurt.

Also if it booted before you installed the new drivers. Delete them and try to boot it back up. If it works its more then likely a software problem.

Im ot running anything too hefty here, and I have a 500 watt PSU. I cant imagine I'd be having power problems. I run a hugrier CPU and GPU with a lesser unit on my own system, so I never thought about a power problem.

It did work without the drivers, though. That's what has me a little thrown.

Thanks for the input guys.

OK, I disabled on board graphics. Didnt work. I yanked my X1950 pro out of my system, put it in, installed drivers for it, and now I am at 1024x768. I would guess that it is the card.

HOWEVER, I went to install a game and the PC rebooted on me a minute or so after I started installing. Not sure why. The CD rom drive is ancient, would that ossibly do it? Otherwise I have another issue here.

I'm d/ling futuremark now to see if it will benchmark without shutting down.

Unless power wires were shorting the CD-ROM would not cause reboots and CD-ROM speed would not have anything to do with stability.

Did you discharge a giant load of static into the case perhaps? Socks.. carpet? I've actually caused a system to reboot by shocking the hell out of it before. It sounds funny, yes, but if the case is off you may have just bumped something.

hmmm, quite strange... do you have another disc drive you can swap in just in case its your CD drive causeing the issues? other then that, it has me stumped=/

lol! and your going to except that? xD

let the games begin...