Why me? Graphics cards and me just don’t get along.

Looks like my Vostro’s graphics card has been fried. The display is squished and duplicated horizontally… so I see the exact same display shown one on top of the other. On top of this, when I try to boot in anything other than Safe Mode, I get this error…

*** Hardware Malfunction
Call your hardware vendor for support
NMI: Parity Check/Memory Parity Error
*** The system has halted ***

And when I went to bother Dell, I guess the guy took that error and started assuming it was a RAM error, even though … my graphics are totally farked up looking… sigh.

What’s confusing is that when I go into safe mode and uninstall the current graphics drivers… it asks to restart and I go yes and when it does… it actually runs the first couple loading screens normally before going black and doing nothing.

At least the damn thing is still under warranty. -_-

[edit] Well wait. Now I’ve gotten it to use a really crappy driver and it’s working. So maybe it is just a driver issue…

[edit 2] omfg, I fixed it, but I don’t know how. ;_;

[edit 3] annnnnd now it’s broken again. $#&$(*%@$#