Dell 8600 Video and Bios Problems, Please Help

Ok guys I am not a comp Genuis but I will try to make this clear.

I was trying to play Serious Sam 2 without having to have the CD in all the time. (Hoping to get more battery life) so I found a patch at Mega Games and installed it for v 1.07 which I had (I have since uninstalled in the last 1.5hrs trying to fix this problem.) and ran the game.

Everything seemed fine. I maxed the settings because it is an older game and I thought the 9600 should handle it just fine. I did not get any in game glitches that I remember. I told it to quit, skipped through the text and shut my screen.

When I opened it back up I had all this crap on my screen. (Its still there to...) basically dots and mis-coloration all over. I found that Serious Sam was still open. SO I closed it... no help. I reinstalled the Omega Drivers.... no help... I also noticed my Bios is now acting up.

When I start it shows these weird dos characters and faces, etc. I have no idea what it is but when i try to enter the bios I can't read anything its all screwed up.

I tried to reflash the Bios but I am not sure if it worked because I can not read anything.

I get the feeling the memory is acting up but I never overclocked the card at all... I am at a loss for whats going on but now I can't do much of anything and I am on dial up right now which makes it worse.

Can you guys help? I dl'd dells BIOS update for the video card but its already installed. Is there a way to force the memory to clear or for the BIOS to flash?

Also why would my Boot splash and BIOS menu's be all screwed up?

I have no clue what to think guys I just know this really sucks and I need some help.

Thanks!!

Well I took most of it apart. However I am not having any luck.

I decided to clean it out, the basics. But its still there.... these blue dots all over and its still in the BIOS and all other screens to....

I really just want to try reflashing the Video Card BIOS and Memory and see if that helps and clears it... I thought there was a program that cleared all vdeio stuff like that and let you flash the BIOS. i have the video card BIOS from dell... but it will not just reflash the card....

I really do not have the money to replace it.... esp since I am sure its around 200 for the video card knowing my luck...

I will try it with just one stick of ram at a time and see what it does.

Nope not the ram... I have an external floppy drive... but I can't find an floppies.... dangit that looks like the only way to flash my video card.