8800GT kicked the bucket?

I have a late 2007 8-core MacPro that came stock with ATI XT1900 graphics card. On April 2008 I purchased 8800 GT upgrade kit and was very happy with it. Then something odd happened today. I was browsing the web when the computer froze. Never happened before. I would occasionally get the spinning rainbow wheel but the computer was unresponsive. I manually power it down. Wait about a minute and start it back up. It starts ok, but slower than normal and freezes again after about 5 min of work. I power it down manually again, but this time, I will not fully boot. It would go to Apple logo, then would get stuck on it for a good 1-2 minutes, then I'd get periodically flickering light blue screen with my cursor in the upper left corner. Then it'd go to dark blue screen with a left top stuck cursor periodically turning into rotation spinning wheel. I waited for a good 5-10 minutes and tried booting from my "clean install" OSX HD. No go. Same thing. Then I tried booting from my OSX 10.5.6 DVD. Same thing. Single user command boot would work, but safe boot would not. When trying to safe boot it would get stuck in Apple logo -> black screen -> chime ->Apple logo... cycle.
I panic... A lot...
Then I decide to start eliminating all the peripherals and I swap in my old ATi XT1900 card. Everything boots fine. I try the 8800GT again and still no go.
Any idea what is going on? The card is just 2 weeks out of warranty and in all honesty I don't mind getting a new 8800GT as long as I know that my current one is 100% paperweight... How can I test it? Can it be installed together with the XT1900 for some experiments? I am overseas and there are no Apple stores here... So no genius' help for me.
Please advise me what I can do...

You still have 2 weeks left of warranty and Apple is saying your 8800GT warranty is nil? That's not right... Have you tried calling Nvidia to see if they could help you? If the price of sending your GPU to get it fixed or replaced is reasonable, perhaps you can follow that route. Otherwise, perhaps a new GPU is in order. Save the cable though, because those sell for ridiculous prices if bought alone, and you just might need it if you decide to get a GPU that requires dual power connections (that is if they aren't included in the box).

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Labello wrote:i don't really get your point in arguing that some things in KDE changed
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