Graphics Card gone bad? Or Worse?

So. I launch World of Warcraft. Suddenly, the screen goes haywire. it flickers, distorts, all sorts of weird things, then the program crashes. Try again, same thing. I restart my computer.

Upon Boot up I see a bunch of red dots, and the text looks smeared, along with weird symbols and such. I'm completely boggling at this. So I turn my computer off, open her up and make sure all the fans are clean, I even re-seat the video card. Still the same problem.

I tried reinstalling the drivers, but the computer acted so wonky I couldn't get to the remove programs, so I tried safe mode. Lo and behold, I could get around my computer again. I uninstalled the drivers, used driver sweeper, and reinstalled them. Nothing. Still the same problem.

However I am able to access my computer in safe mode with networking, as I'm writing this on that computer. Though the desktop background shows red lines through the black of the safe mode desktop.

So. Long story. Does this sound like a graphics card clonking out? I've got a 8800 GTX Evga video card. OH! And I did switch my RAM out when it acted funny, no go there. So I at least know it isn't my RAM.

Nope. Didn't check of any of that. My motherboard doesn't have onboard graphics.

Sounds like a bad graphics card

+1

Sadly. I don't have another computer with a PCI-E slot. The other computer in the house is AGP still.

Wow this is The exact same problem i am having, froze while playing wow had to hard reboot it then come up with the smudged boot up text then red lines or dots in safe mode. blue screen of death if i let it boot up normally. oh and also a 8800gt card.