# garbled text on first boot... video card a POS? **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [December 3, 2007, 5:42pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/garbled-text-on-first-boot-video-card-a-pos/39682 "2007-12-03T17:42:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dr.Stevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2007, 12:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/garbled-text-on-first-boot-video-card-a-pos/39682/21 "2007-12-04T12:49:43Z")
awesome, thanks Justin :tup: so you’d be more inclined to say that my PCI-e slot is probably a-ok, and just got a shitty card? ---
**Author:** ![JustinH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JustinH](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JustinH)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2007, 12:57pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/garbled-text-on-first-boot-video-card-a-pos/39682/22 "2007-12-04T12:57:42Z")
yeah thats how the cards look when they are bad man. Garbled text like that. I would still swap it with a known good card to verify, but 99 percent sure on that card being bad. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Stevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2007, 4:17pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/garbled-text-on-first-boot-video-card-a-pos/39682/23 "2007-12-04T16:17:19Z")
cool, appreciated man well, got it going in full force. Got vista all installed and just making sure the temps are running all stable since I had to remove 2 case fans due to the size of the CPU heatsink. So far so good… tweaking the voltage shortly 😃 I need that 8800, this 5200 sucks a bag of dicks. It seems like it’s bringing down the entire system using aero. Not slow, but not exactly fast. XP was a lot more forgiving [Previous page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/garbled-text-on-first-boot-video-card-a-pos/39682.md?page=1)