Ati2dvag problem

Yup, my day just got a lot worse. The last few days, each time i turn on my computer there are a lot of blue lines across the screen, and letters. After windows tries to boot, it says that there is an issue with ati2dvag. I looked it up and the news just got worse. http://www.modernstreet.com/general/ati2dvag-problem/ Says its a bug, and that it affects ati video cards. So ive been trying the solutions they suggest, but i cant find agp to cpu controller because there is no agp slot on my board.

My computer is my first self built computer, and ive had many issues, but none as big as this. There is no onboard video.

So im at the point that ive given up trying to solve this issue manually, my birthday is coming up and i was wondering a few things.

1. Could i get a NVidea card, and would it work properly?
2. Is there any way out there to totally wipe a hard drive, of every file, formatting, just EVERYTHING. So maybe i could start over? My XP disk has unlimited installs, so thats not an issue.

Well if 'modernstreet' says it's a bug....

It's an indication that something is wrong with your system, and if you don't find out what, then you're simply simply swapping one colour problem for another, because it's not like it happens on nV's hardware or anything right? Oh wait.....

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=50330

Treat the cause of the disease, not the symptom.

Something in your home built is borked, it could be a lack of chipset drivers, it could be poor installation of the ATi drivers, it could be a corrupt install of DirectX, it could be a bunhc of things, but unless you do the basics and update the things that can be easily fixed first, then you're going to be throwing hardware at what is essentially a software conflict issue.

PS, If you want more help from others in diagnosing the problem, then you will need to provide proper system details as mentioned above, just saying "help, help, my computer is borked..." doesn't really provide any insight.

Its not a bug, its user error.

You didn't properly remove your nvidia drivers and files or you havent properly installed your chipset drivers, directx, or video drivers.