Well after getting a vbios flash for my 5970 off Sapphire Direct....I am not getting a grey screen, but I am getting an OUT OF SIGNAL error upon starting my PC. Then one maybe two resets gets its right, and then I still have the odd 2D desktop diag. stripes.....
Sapphire told me to RMA the card but my vendor in europe has no stock till the end of FEB
My card is absolute ROCK SOLID gaming for hours....so I am not gonna RMA just yet with the stock issue....but I highly doubt it at this stage that its a driver issue. Seems like bad RAM to me.