To the guy with the video card problem. There are 2 things you need to check in my opinion.
1) Make sure your Motherboard drivers are up to date (i'm assuming you have your videocard drivers are up to date.
2) Make sure your power supply is connected to your videocard. I suspect this is the problem. Some videocards require an extra connection to your powersupply. I'm pretty sure your card is one of them. Open the case up. Look for a connection which the power supply would connect to. Find the connection that looks like that coming from the power supply and plug it in. If your videocard doesn't have enough power it probably would have similar problems.
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