Dying graphics card?

[rusyn]

I have a GTX 470; when booting my machine, the monitor shows the BIOS boot screen & the Windows logo. At the point where the NVIDIA drivers are loaded (I assume), the screen blacks out. In Safe Mode & running from an Ubuntu live CD, it works save for light blue lines that disappear with a selection rectangle & return shortly after releasing the rectangle.

I don't have additional hardware to test it all in, and would appreciate any help & advice!

 

[killadoob]

If the card works in safe mode and on a platform where drivers are not required/used, you have two options. Clean the drivers with driver sweeper and reload the latest drivers or you need to test your card in another pc and you will know if it is faulty.

You can remove the drivers in safe mode, then clean them with driver sweeper, just to be sure all files related to nvidia are gone. Not sure if it works in safe mode, never actually tried it before but i would imagine it should work http://www.guru3d.com/content_page/guru3d_driver_sweeper.html. When you reboot just load the latest drivers or even the drivers from the cd you can try both but i would imagine your card is faulty though. I had the exact same issue back in the 9800 days. Luckily it was still under warranty but your problem is exactly what happened to my card. You should just try the driver option, testing in another pc would be the first move though if possible. If it does the same thing you know the card is faulty.

 

[Rickster]

If you are using drivers 320.XX use Driver sweeper (in safe mode) like killa said and revert to 314.22 WHQL.