I guess I don't know what SriLanken cultural norms are about this sort of thing, but at least here in the US, it wouldn't really be insulting to go to the gift giver and say that you really like the card, but it looks like it's defective, so you want...
You could send it in for an OOW repair. I have a little OOW estimation tool, but the number it gave me is ridiculously low, so I don't even want to give it because I'm 99.999999999999% positive it's wrong.But at least in the North America region, if ...
You can also purchase a copy of the restore media from the Asus eStore if you're in the US/Canada.http://us.estore.asus.com/index.php?l=product_detail&p=3477
Unless the issue is the GPU sending corrupted data, then a software generated screenshot won't show the issue to anyone else. You'll need to use a camera to take a picture of the display, and then maybe use MS Paint or Irfanview to draw a circle or s...
There should indeed always be a red light emanating from that port when the unit is on. So if there's not, then I forget if there's an option to disable it in the BIOS/UEFI, but that would be one thing to check. Other than that, the only possibilitie...