Ge4600Ti "artifacts" in BIOS and WinXP

I have just setup a new system. I took my Ge4600 out of my old P4 system (no past problems working fine). Put it in my new system (875P Neo) and now my display is corrupted both in POST, BIOS and WinXP (redraw problems in XP, wrong letters in BIOS, artifacts in POST). The system runs fine with my old RIVA in it.
I then put the Ge4 back in my old sytem (no HD installed) and the POST screen shows the same problems. Im pretty sure I didnt damage it removing/installing. I did remove a lot of dust which had clogged the HSF.
Any suggestions? Should I continue to try other drivers? When installing the latest Detonator I get a Stop Error (Blue Screen). Is my card damaged?

It doesn't look good
But from your explanation I see that the problem started when you moved the card and then the problem followed to another system. You have basically answereed your own question by following the technique I would have used by trying it in another rig. Yes I think the card was somehow damaged by either static discharge or a small surface mount device such as a transistor, resistor or capacitor may have fallen off during handling, hard to say.

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Either way although getting to understand how uefi boot works is a learning curve it is actually generally simpler than the old legacy BIOS boot. With uefi you no longer need an MBR on the drive, and only a suitable EFI System Partition which has to be VFAT formatted. However if you want to have one of the linux distributions booting from legacy MBR then you need to create an MBR at the start of the drive - so you would need to move the start of the first partition and create a suitable sized Master Boot Record otherwise MBR boot can't work. If you do that then of course you have to be careful if the Windows partition is the one being re-sized that it doesn't mess up the Windows boot! However since using uefi to boot rEFInd allows a chainload to grub/gummiboot or other bootloaders then there should be no need to mess with MBR booting if you go down that route.
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He is also the author of a really excellent disk partitioner for GPT disks - http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/
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