Video card bust help quick!

[germanjulian]

i installed my comp into a new case! (thermaltake)! everything was fine! Played games was surfing the internet! The next day early in the morning i was surfing the web for 1 hour!
in the afternoon my brother calls saying my computer keeps crashing (never happened beforehand). ok the computer loads windows! i can word process etc and even surf the web (like now) but if i load any 3d app it freezes, completly, dead!!

so i uninstalled my video card drivers and reinstalled old first version which came with video card! probelms stayed!
since i couldnt be bother much fixing this i restored my image of my hard drive which is 1 and a half months aga! when restoring i even choose to check for bad sectors and see if writting is done proper!
anyway i wake up it was done! i restart and it acctually worked!!! my computer is the way it was 1 and a half months ago (brilliant).
the error still is there!!!! i gonna reset the bios now and see if this helps but i have a bad feeling my video card is maybe broken! but then again why can i do this? or is my primary hard drive broken? (i dropped it 3 cm) but then again i reinstalled a whole partition and it works!
any suggestions before i go out and spend £££ on a new geforce 4??? help me...........

athlon xp 1900
creative geforce 4400 (modded with silent heatsink www.quitepc.com)
512 ddd ram
win xp

[germanjulian]

bios didnt work! it crashed also after running a few windows apps at ones!
and the crash with 3d apps happens when they load (normally after 3 seconds)
sisoft sands benchmaks seem to work though?????????
help

oh temps are fine by the way and not o/c ed
i cant even watch videos
but mp3s work in windows media player!
voltages are fine!

how can video card work and when i run any apps using direct 3d or opengl it crashes

OH sisoft sandra doesnt start and crashed my computer! it worked with no video card drivers installed!!!!

[germanjulian]

naddaaaaaaaaaaa
didnt work

can i buy the ati radeon 9700 here in britain yet???
cant find it!
what an excuse to buy it

[germanjulian]

no drivers for Graphics everything works (well resolution is low and it looks the ****)
with drivers nahhhhhhhhh **** up

anyone???

[Bigjakkstaffa]

You been using those 40.xx drivers?

If so... Theyre probably your problem

--Jakk

[germanjulian]

not much help on this thread whatsoever!

yeah i though the drivers might be the problem thats why i completly reinstalled! but hey t/m i gonna buy a new graphic card and see if that helps! (if it doesnt it will go into my brothers new system)

[AllGamer]

just reinstall the older 30.x drivers

[germanjulian]

i have lol even the 28 one etc etc doesnt work!
the gpu is cold as well? on the other side of the card! wasnt that cold beforehand!
good night! t/m i gonna buy a geforce 4600! hope it works and fixes pc

[germanjulian]

bought msi 4600!
works fixed happy £300 less in pockets!