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"Those vertical lines from my experience can mean two things: \n1. Buggy drivers. \n2. The beginning of the end of your video card. \nAccording to the in-home repair service the cooling fans on video cards may eventually stop working and then cause the video card to overheat, and eventually cook itself into complete failure. \nI was randomly seeing vertical lines that disappeared on reboot for almost a year until my first video card finally went kaput. The second one only lasted two months with no warning of completely failing. \n  \nMy PC will be four years old in November so I sort of expect stuff to randomly die. I've already been through one DVD drive, but that I'd highly expect to happen due to ripping a bunch of audio CDs. \n  \nTwo video cards was however unexpected. The mobo replacement was just a precaution according to Dell who replaced it for free stating the failures could be because of the mobo. I just hope I have no more serious system crippling problems because my extended warranty I purchased expires in November, and I definitely don't have the money for a big PC repair or new PC purchase (unless I get some cheap off the shelf PC, which I don't want). "
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