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Originally Posted by Nehkara
Well, I can no longer run games on it (it used to be perfectly capable of playing games). I suspect this is the video card. When you try and run games you get graphical artifacts usually degenerating to whole system lockup.
Also, I am always nervous about restarting it because it frequently fails to boot into windows. This I am a little confused by as the "fix" for it has always been to just keep restarting it until it boots windows.
When I get home I will post system specs but it is running Windows Vista.
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Videocards dying is quite common. Easiest way to deal with this is to either underclock your videocard core and memory clocks to see if the games become stable and the artifacts go away, or try a different videocard. See if a friend has a spare to lend you.
What happens exactly when it fails to boot into windows?