[Athlon64] Strange problem...garbled screen...system wont boot...please help!

Hi,
Thanks for reading my call for advise...
My system ran fine for about 10 months now. Since 1 week in 3D games I experienced some artifacts. A few days later artifacts appeared while playing movies in more than 100% of their original size. I did a winxp system restore... This seemed to be helpful for about two days.
Yesterday I booted my system....
Immediately my screen fills with strange blinking characters and lots of color. It looks like a &$%$^ fractal when my systems stops responding.
Only the top right corner is still readable. It shows the bios logo. There's nothing I can do. I can't go in the Bios-menu. My JLed shows it's busy with ...Boot Attempt - This will set low stack and boot via INT 19h.
Anyone seen this before? Please help me out.
Thanx!
Regards, Mark
Specs:
- MSI K8TNEO (754)
- ATHLON64 (3200+)
- 1024 MB
- MSI NX6600-GT
- MAXTOR 160 GB (Sata)
- SHARKOON SILENTSTORM (370W)

I will search on int 19h....thanks.
My problem started before the bios-screen.
This is what I tried this evening:
- Disconnected all non-essential devices...no effect.
- Cleared the CMOS...system booted to OS!    Screens still garbled! 
- Put in an older graphics-card...No artifacts! 
- Put my MSI NX6600GT (AGP) back in...screen grabled while booting. Once in OS everything
  looks fine at first. Later I noticed some odd random pixels. Playing movies is working fine.
  Playing 3D games results in all kinds of strange looking artifacts.
- Installed the latest NVidia- drivers...no effect.
Is my problem still MOBO related or Graphics Adapter?
Any further advice?
Thanks!

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