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

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**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")
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### 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, 5:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/garbled-text-on-first-boot-video-card-a-pos/39682/5 "2007-12-04T05:58:47Z")

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finally got a pic

![http://nyspeed.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=3342&stc=1&d=1196776706](http://nyspeed.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=3342&stc=1&d=1196776706)

I’m going to try exchanging the video card today to see if it’s bad. With any luck, it’s not the motherboard… I don’t feel like ripping it back out

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