Major graphic problem… is my card messed up?

My pc was working fine in morning. Then I installed Dead Space which installed Visual C++ 2005 redistributable. I played the game and everything worked fine. Then I shut down the PC which had installed some Microsoft updates.
When I turned PC on and tried to play Left 4 Dead 2, I got a blue screen and PC restarted. Now I keep getting these weird glitches and blue screens.

I already tried updating video card driver and it didn’t help.
Answer #1
you could try using a system restore point? also run a virusscanner just to make sure, sometimes it also could help installing an older video card driver, 1 version before the newest or something but it seems like an software problem, if your graph card is ~ censored ~ it shouldn`t work or go back to your
on board stuff.
Answer #2
I just did restore to 3 days ago and it didn’t help
Answer #3
if you start up in save mode, you still got this problem?
Answer #4
did you uninstall the old before updating/reinstalling the drivers
Answer #5
No I didn’t. It didn’t work so i reverted it back to old driver…
the blue screen says new hardware or software might be causing it… but i even did system restore to get rid of all new software. It’s all glitchy even when I turn the PC it starts doing that from after I see screen that says ASUS and then the windows laoding screen.
Answer #6
Does your MOBO have integrated graphics? If so re-enable integrated graphics through the BIOS, shut down and remove your GPU. If it loads and you’re on the PC without any errors, it’s your GPU.
Answer #7
No I dont have an integrated graphics… well I even tried reformatting whole drive and reinstalling windows and still same thing… guess its broken.
I read it could be because the power supply unit is faulty. I’m going to write an email to the company to atleast get a new power supply… this sucks
Answer #8
Eh, I’m not sure on that one. It can be a lot of problems, that’s the bad thing about a hardware problem. It’s difficult to narrow it down unless you’re getting an error which is exactly known to be cause by one specific part. IMO, it sounds like a GPU problem to me. And I’d take it to a friends house/another PC to test it.
Answer #9
I remember reading somewhere about putting your GPU in the oven at a certain temp, for a certain amount of time. It should help if there are any bad connections in the card, it will tighten the soder. What do you have to lose if your warranty is up? Of course test it in another PC before baking it.
I found the article on it.
http://www.garagegames.com/community/blogs/view/18161/1
Answer #10
Wow that sounds odd enough for it to work… I’ll try it lol
Answer #11
something else you can try is to take out the card and use a clean pencil eraser to clean the gold contacts on both sides of the bottom of the card
Answer #12
The Monitor Maybe ?
Answer #13
The Monitor Maybe ?
Monitors don’t cause blue screens 😉
Answer #14
Guys I just baked my video card and cleaned dust off the fans and I’m happy to say it works perfectly now!!!
thanks all for input.
Answer #15
Word. Grats on getting it working again, I always hate waiting for a new card
Answer #16
Guys I just baked my video card and cleaned dust off the fans and I'm happy to say it works perfectly now!!!
thanks all for input.
Glad to be of assistance. People don’t realize how much that usually is the problem. Cheap sodering.