Powercolor Radeon 6850: Crashing, Artifacts, BSOD's, Etc.

Wow, I somehow messed up and deleted my original thread, oh well here's the gist of it:

1. Screen flickers for a bit, I see weird horizontal lines across the screen--then the screen is "garbled" upl 1/4 of my screen, so the start menu and a few of the quick nav's on the bottom appears at the FAR RIGHT of my screen and everything else is pushed to the left. if I try to take a print-screen shot of it however, everything looks fine.

2. I had BCCode 116 and 117 errors--upon Google research, I found this means Video Card Hardware or Software Failure.

3. Sometimes, wiggling the DVI cable will fix it but most of the time it requires a hard reboot. I've tried switching DVI cables but that did not fix the issue. I do not have another video card lying around unfortunately to test things out.

4. Currently showing signs of artifacts on my screen. I'm 90% certain it's the Power 6850 that's the issue, but I'm just trying to get some second opinions before I plunge money into a new card.

Its old problem, gpu is probably unsoldered from pcb due to owerheating


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_taI-CkPD3M

or permanent solution

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97nxZwHG5bA

I have seen many many threads about this chip all with the same problem Bsod and as a tech in training i would like to tell you this if you still have the chip best get rid of it because its not the driver it is the hardware. Ati has messed up this gpu in one way or another because it is getting this problem everywhere With intels amds win7 32/64bit ubuntu everything. Mine is doing the same on games and crashed flash and java a few times so its not you, its just shotty hardware manufacturing. Their is no other explanation because no one,... NO ONE has solved this issue on any of the 6 or 7 forms i have read ether all about the same issue and different systems in but they meet all/most the requirements of this gpu.

But just a fyi i have the same card just a Sapphire one and that's how i know ati screwed up because its not just Sapphire radon Hd 6850 but xfx, powercolor,Sapphire, etc. Pretty much you and i bought a crap gpu and we will have to deal with it but Ati will never admit that. And all my crap is up to snuff WAY past what it needs.

And Mine only gets up to 140F so its not like it is melting and mine was bought December now feb and it has always been like this. Well i hope i am lying and theirs just a driver issue but i am 99% certain the card is crap.