MBP freezes at startup & video went bad

there is a screenshot of what i get now when it freezes. u can see the grey bar on the top that was attempting to show an error im guessing. i tried everything from resetting PRAM to power to taking battery out. Before it went out I had another monitor connecting and had a few programs but it completely froze and everything that was showing started looking like a bad quality JPEG and kept getting worst. Then looked good and kept going back to ugly. Now it just will not start up. It sounds like one of those defected gforce cards. The MBP has the santa rosa with nvidia 8800... I already had the battery replace but im out of warranty and dont have apple care. And ya im aware of the 300-1000 fix of this nonsense. anyone else feeling the same right about now with a useless piece of technology sitting on their desk. :/

have you tried resetting the SMC?
with your computer off, do not have the ac adapter attached, remove the battery and then hold the power button for 5 seconds. plug the battery back in (plug in the AC if you want as well) and turn the computer on.
have you also tried booting from the install dvd? hold 'c' down when you boot (have the install disk inserted into the drive, obviously). from there you can go into disk utility and see if you can run the repair disk option.
what was done to your MBP prior to this happening? did you install anything (i.e. updates, other software)?
i don't think this is related to the GPU (which is the nvidia 8600M GT, btw, not the 8800) and likely either a software or another hardware issue. perhaps your RAM?

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