Display Gone Bad

[coolkeeper]

Hi everyone,,
so my friend just got a new old vga from his friend, its a 256 mb geforce 8600 gt.
It was fine,, but yesterday when i played the sims 3 on his rig the picture suddenly "shattered"
It was like dead pixels all over,, then it just stop,, i cant even move the mouse, so i hit the reset button, and after that windows won't even start (just a black screen after the windows loading screen)...
so.. can anyone help?

 

[jsc]

Try starting in Safe Mode. If you can, you may have driver problems.

 

[coozie7]

Could be the card has gone bad, it happens.
Try the Safe Mode startup as suggested by Jsc, it may just be a driver problem.
Also look here:

http://www.playtool.com/pages/artifacts/artifacts.html