Stupid Dell

[FAMY2]

Sometimes my monitor flashes on and off. I tried another monitor and it still does it.  If I use a fan in front of the tower, it does it less. And it just seems to be when I am using more graphics.

Do I need a new video card or what?   I currently have a NVIDIA GeForce 7900 Gs and 3 GB ram.

[snoorkel]

That's a strange issue, I would try taking the graphics card out of its socket, clearing all dust away from the socket, cleaning the gold connectors lightly (q-tip and rubbing alcohol or something), and re-seating it. If that doesn't help then the GPU is probably just kind of dead

[applesauce]

clean all of your heatsinks, but especially the GPU and all around on the video card.

[FAMY2]

I used an air compressor with a water remover thing on it and carefully blew all the dust out.

Does the graphic card come out the same way as ram does? 

[snoorkel]

I used an air compressor with a water remover thing on it and carefully blew all the dust out.

Does the graphic card come out the same way as ram does? 

yeah pretty much. there's probably a clip you'll have to undo at one end of it.

[FAMY2]

Thanks.