[Chicken Patty]

Sad but much needed. I am making a thread because I need advise from you guys.

Here is a list of issues I've had with my i7 rig lately.

1- Video card. Screen would go black and fan would spin up forcing me to reboot.
2- Once I replaced video card with an X300 I have, it stops issue #1 above, but now I have lost LAN and Audio, forcing me to restart to get it back only to loose it again.
3-with the x300 installed, I have now removed my sound card ( in the specs to the left) and all related creative apps/software/drivers. Seems like this is the longest i've had LAN. Of course no audio now, but the LAN connection is fine so far.

So what would you guys advise me to do.

What I have in mind is monitor a bit more, if all fine, try the 9800GX2 again and see if the sound card was causing the card to act up. If the 9800GX2 still acts up then the card is bad. Then it'll be a matter of getting my sound card to work with the rest of the components.