Screen goes black when I change resolution to 1920x1080.

I recently got a new TV cabinet for my TV (that i use as a monitor) and I thought that I would need a smaller case for the computer (that I play movies on) so it would fit in the new TV cabinet. however, I found that the new case was to small to have the same psu, and the only psu that would fit in it was as loud as the Saturn 5 rocket. that's all irrelevant, what is relevant is that I moved each component (mobo, graphics card etc...) into a new case and half a day later I moved them all back to their original configuration in the same case. I plugged the TV, power, keyboard/mouse and... nothing. The TV was showing a no signal message that was bouncing around the screen. I thought it was the mobo at first, so I replaced it, that didn't work, I replaced it with another mobo, and it still didn't work. i then out the original mobo back, and put another graphics card in, and it worked. until i tried to change the resolution from 1360x768 to 1920x1080. when i did so, the TV went black (didn't show no signal message) and i had to wait until it timed out and went back to original settings. I then assumed that the graphics card couldn't handle 1080p, so I got the best graphics card in the house (from my main computer) and shoved it in the computer.
It also went black when I put the resolution to 1080p. I then proceeded to screw my face up and post on these forums. (this is all very old hardware that I strip from computers that I get from the local dump)

TV is "Dick Smith 40" Full High Definition LCD TV"
(I have no other 1080P displays that i can test the computer on)

Mobo: gigabyte ga-eg31m-s2

original graphics card:

graphics card I replaced original with:


I have Ubuntu 12.04 installed on all my computers and i do have the nvidia drivers installed on Ubuntu and it is a fresh install of Ubuntu too.

I tried the original graphics card in my main computer and sure enough, it is broken.