^^Yep. Basically 9800GT is nothing but a overclocked 8800GT.
its shocking to know that your Apc ups couldn't handle a power surge.Bad news guys, it looks like the problem is in the hardware level of the card. Probably something went wrong during the power surge which also destroyed my PSU. Now getting BSOD after BSOD. Even after reverting back the BIOS to the old one is not stopping it.
Gonna try the Oven trick now.