Okay, here's my story guys. Roughly six months ago I bought parts to build a new comp around a 1600+ AGOIA and a TI4200. I sold the TI4200 and 1600+ recently and bought a 9500np and 2500+ (BARTON BABY!) but I kept the motherboard because it isnt really outdated. It's the Gigabyte GA-7VAX with KT400 Chipset, AGP8x, FSB 333 support, and the list goes on and on lol. Anyway, I got all the parts in there and stuff only to find out that the mobo's IDE Channel 1 somehow is fried. IDE channel 2 still works tho (odd). I hooked the HD up to channel 2 along with a CD burner (HD-Master, CD-RW-Slave), installed windows XP pro and installed all the drivers for everything. IT WORKED!!! Beautifully I might add. I played UT2K3 and Black and White for hours up into the early morning. THen I napped and went to a party, but when I came home I started up UT2K3 and I had this horrible Artifacting. I tried formatting, reinstalling drivers, cleaning the connectors that on the card that go into the AGP slot, everything. THen I took my old crappy Rage 128 and popped it in there and it worked fine (other than the fact that that card is a POS and can't run hardly anything lol). I put the 9500np back in and it still has the artifacting. I would say, "it's the card" but another wacky thing is this... When I boot with the 9500np in, the POST is very crazy looking. Letters are replaced with other letters and numbers. Instead of saying, "Detecting IDE drives" it says "D2tacieng I#E drives". It's very weird. Almost all of the stuff is like that. Every once in a while you find one whole word. It doesn't do that with the rage 128. I think it might be the motherboard's stupid AGP8x support or BIOS or something. Then again it might be the card as well. What do you guys think? Here's a screen of the artifacting...