[quote name='Kayden']BRAK
Ya know, it might have just been a failing harddrive or even bad ram. A bad video card shouldn't destroy your filesystem. However, if the RAM flaked out while loading the drivers, that could corrupt them, same for the HDD.
What I would do is first get memtest+ and let that run for a while. (It fits on a bootable floppy.) If that comes out OK, it might be your HDD. Then I'd recommend a new install on a good HDD. If that works out fine you know its your current HDD. Actually, if you want to ship it to me, I can probably use the cloner at work and get all your files off of it.[/QUOTE]
Well, the last time this happened, the video card was genuinely fried... When I replaced it, everything was fine.
(This time was sort of different, though, in that it was only terribly garbled, as opposed to horribly garbled, when I swapped a new video card in.)
With that said, do you think that things could just be burning up? My computer, in recent months, has been noticeably slower, one of my CD drives won't read CDs (this happened with a DVD drive before -- off and on), etc. Come to think of it, the dial-up modem on my motherboard died a couple of years ago, when I used to use dial-up. Strell sent me his old dial-up card, in fact.
And thanks for the offer... but after I couldn't access my old files, and when I just couldn't turn on my computer, I just completely reformatted it... which didn't help. (And now I regret it.)
All my shit is long gone. :'(