Damaged video card?

Yo people.

Recently I got a new video card (NVIDIA), and it works fine and stable, I can play games and such fine. There is a problem though; sometimes during video playback, I get strange red and blue colours appearing over the image. I took a screenshot of it happening:

http://img472.imageshack.us/img472/2513/colorz4na.png

Usually I use Linux with NVIDIA's official linux drivers. I've tested it, and found that this problem also happens in Windows 2000, and in Linux with the open-source "nv" driver.

I think it's a hardware problem, but I want to know what you guys think first. Is it a hardware problem, or could it be that some BIOS setting isn't correct or such?

I've only had the card a couple of weeks, so the place I bought it from will probably replace it.

>>1
Avoid overlay mode

USE VLC

your distro is in color, but you watch black and white animus.  the distro cannot process black and white data, so it generates color randomly.  perhaps you should switch to a black and white distro such as orca linux.

Buy an extra fan.  For some reason it will work because fans are magic.

>>4

Troll harder

>>5
Fans prevent overheating, which creates artifacts, which show up as random crap being drawn to the screen when the video card is being used moderatly/heavily.

Thanks for the replies.

I'm not so sure that it's overheating; the thermal monitor for the card says that the temperature is 58°C, and this is while playing a video with that problem occurring.

>>5
super troll