Capt BK,
A couple of years ago I had the same Video Card, the Annihilator Pro. I had several long talks with Creative, when my card failed. I did get Creative to admit that they had a lot of failures with their cooling solution for that card. They have been having the fans on the GPU fail. Without the fan, the GPU will overheat and actually sustain permanent damage. They were sending everyone that had the fan fail a GeForce2 MX as a direct replacement.
Take Care,
Richard
P.S. We are keeping busy, I hope you will be able to visit again soon.