whats wrong!

[ThisBullet]

i just got a brand new mobo, psu,cpu and ram from dell 2 yrs out of warrenty. it was working perfectly when the local tech assembled it (i could've done it but i wanted warrenty on the work) i swapped gpu's and it was running fine. i took it out again and double faced tape the fan to the heatsink and put a rubber band around the card to support it (dont ask, i was bored i regret it now) and put it back in and hooked up this crappy 3pin to peripheral cord in my dell, a piece of the exposed wire on it hit the inside metal of the case. now in KDE on a gentoo system im getting random color lines, excssivly slow performance, long time to switch resolutions, random characters on the dell screen and opengl cannot communicate with the gpu and i verified that it is not the gpu by putting an older gpu that was origionally in the dell into the system and seeing the same results

[moocha]

Obviously a hardware problem. I suggest you take the system to your local tech to fix it. Fiddling with it will probably only make it worse if you don't know exactly what you're doing.
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