well, the reason i got the new mobo was cuz i couldnt get the gfx card to work on the old one, it was doing the funny lines thing and everybody i talked to said i had to have a mobo that supports 8x agp for it to work. the problem is that even the bios cant use the card right, it comes up and is clearly going through the boot up screens, but it cant draw them right and ends up with the funny lines. now its doing the same thing on the new mobo... its a nvidia fx 5600 256mb card and its got some kind of lifetime insurance so i guess they have to back it up. i cant get windows to come up in safe mode, but i can mount the hd with phlak and browse my hd with no problem, i think windows is just being screwy, so im really most concerned with making the card work or seeing if its broken, i guess im gonna have to wait a while before i can talk to customer service if it's broken.. stupid columbus