Baraka_Guru

Possibly. The card probably ran pretty hot.

As for the driver, I looked into it, as Hecktore planted a seed in my brain and I got curious.

I think Windows grabbed a driver that was perhaps embedded in its Windows Update records or something. It installed a driver that was released in July 2010. I normally upgrade the driver separately from Windows Update. So I just went ahead and installed the most recent driver, which is the same one I downloaded when I tried to fix my busted card.

I'm good to go now.

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