Geforce4 ti4600 with green lines??

I have to make this quick because my new AGP Geforce4 ti4600 is getting reall hot for some reason. But the main problem is that there are green lines going down the screen like this | | | | | | | and they are like that all the way across the screen. I installed the newest drivers, but not even my motherboard is recognizing the ti4600. When I go to display, it says "default monitor on" and it says no video card. When I go to advanced and then to adapter, everything is blank, Ramdack type, gpu type, everything. So then I click on properties, and it says "VGA Save" for the drivers and everything. I just bought this and dont want to ruin it....help? Please hurry though, Im usually not in a rush, but this is really worrying me.
Thanks,
-X

 

How's the BIOS look? Set for AGP now and an IRQ? You may want to try some 4x.xx series drivers as the newer ones are optimized for the much newer cards. I stayed with 44.03 with mine.

 

Yes, the BIOS is okay, even though i cant see anything that is in the bios. Even that is messed up, all the letters are all scrambled up and different colors. I had to refer to the manual to make sure those settings were okay. the RAM on this video card is getting extremely hot almost to where it hurts to touch it, is it safe to leave it going? I really want this to work out but I dont want to burn a video card in the process
Thanks
-X

 

beautiful, just beautiful. I did some researching on the net, and tried a few tests. Guess what? one worked. Guess what made it work? I had to push down on the corner of the card, because a lot of Nvidia cards have problems with the fitting in the AGP slot. bahaha thats hilarious.... all that time.... jeez
Anyway, I will post if anymore problems occur
Thanks,
-X

 

Don't you just hate when that happens?