Quote Originally Posted by tommo666
I have seen this in other Nvid cards, corrupted display showing strange ascii characters in a 8x8 size block. If you manage to get to a windows desktop, openning and closing stuff causes random characters to be displayed on screen.

Most of these cards were extremely hot when pulled from the system.

Take it back and get it replaced.
Will Tigerdirect give a refund/exchange? Have heard nasty things about Tigerdirect.