Serious Bios Artifacting help!

[trevorman1]

Sup everybody, I just put together a new machine and upon getting to the bios it begins artifacting like crazy, becomes fuzzy and all kinds of weird colors. I've tried booting up from a Windows 7 RC disc and the artifacts happen during the install. I'm assuming there might be something wrong with the video card? Do I need to flash the bios? This is my first system I have ever built and there is no onboard graphics card so I'm not sure how to test the rest of the system for the root of the problem

Anyway if I can't figure it out I will RMA the graphics card.

Thanks for your help!

Antec Three Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
ASUS M4A79XTD EVO AM3 AMD 790X ATX AMD Motherboard
CORSAIR CMPSU-650TX 650W ATX12V
AMD Phenom II X3 720 BE
Video Card - XFX HD-489A-ZDFC Radeon HD 4890
SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD502HJ 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Sata
Crucial 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) Dual Channel

 

[Outlander_04]

gfx cards have a bios too, and that is probably whats DOA

can you try another gfx card ?
Any pci-e card will do

can you try and run the pc using a linux live disk?

 

[trevorman1]

gfx cards have a bios too, and that is probably whats DOA

can you try another gfx card ?
Any pci-e card will do

can you try and run the pc using a linux live disk?

Yeah I just threw in my radeon x800 xt from '04. The win7 install is working just fine everything looks good. So is my xfx 4890 just dead or do I need to change something?

 

[Outlander_04]

its dead