The card is defective, aka broken. No software/driver can save it.

Also what integrated GPU are you running? Radeon HD3450 is a very old card. I suppose if you can afford to spend $50 HD7730 is about to come out, and is many times stronger than HD3450.

 

As others said dead or dying and though I am more likely to call BGA failure I have also seen similar things from capacitors failing before.

If any look like
http://ww2.justanswer.com/uploads/SelectTronix/2011-09-13_180709_capacitors.jpg (leaking from the top, sides of bottom) or are bulging on top then they are dead and need to be replaced. I will probably get dirty looks from some sides but you can score enough new ones to fix it for a couple of dollars for the lot and a trip to radioshack/fry's.

If it is the case reply back and I or someone will guide you through capacitor replacement (it usually reads replace like with like but there are exceptions and things to make things slightly harder).

 

bump to get attention. is it completely useless like ive been told and has my hopefulness all been in vain.

 

sadly i was stupid enough to do so, though it was with the factory restore partion. during the process, the screen did the vertical line thing. and so i let it do its thing, and pressed enter, and the computer restarted. it looked like it was going fine, then when it started to configure windows, i get a black screen. so I cant see what was going on.

long story short, it forced me to reinstall the os again, this time without the card in.

if you dont mind reading, here is a summery of everything I've done after the os install.

Warning: Spoilers inside!

run it the first time before windows installs its preset driver, which i cannot stop. it installs, and then after a few min it black screens me. cant see a thing. so I force a shut off. video comes through.

try to start windows, gets blue screen of death.

goes to bios and changes pci back to onboard for gpu usage.

everything start fine

install graphic card drivers from makers site, installs fine no errors.

go back to bios, switch back to pci, restart, freeze on windows boot logo, the bsod.

change bios to onboard once again, and it seems that the comp is using both graphic cards. tested with minecraft
and i can have everything at highest, with no lag. and before i had to have almost everything on lowest. going to get a more gpu intensive game to test out later.

 

lol he was quite surprised that it didnt work. and because we traded, he offered to get a refurbished one
for me, that should do the same, if not better than this card could do if it did work.

 

he bought a refurbished one for me. having it shipped to me

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005E99J9A/ref=ox_ya_os_product

should definitely be better than the one thats busted.

 

Bought a refurbished one once, it was defective on arrival. I sent it back twice, only to be sent a defective one back.
That was a complete waste of money and time.

 

also for when I do get the next GPU, what would be the proper way to install it? do I uninstall the Nvidia graphic display drivers, shut down, install card, then boot up and install drivers for the new card? or just install the new card and leave all drivers alone?

 

If you still have it, you can try baking it.

 

baking? what exactly would that do?