# garbled text on first boot... video card a POS?

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**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")\
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**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")

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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.

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