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Originally Posted by Prefader
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I have seen this exact thing many times. It's a bad capacitor. You can probably even see it, if you look closely at the board. One (or more) of the caps will be "swollen". You can repair this with an el cheap-o soldering iron and a $5 (or less) replacement cap.
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Yeah I've lost two cards to popped caps. They physically ripped open and had brown dust coming out. The cards were not old but they were cheaper. It's true that the computer was kept in an area with poor airflow and high dust accumulation. In one case, the on-board fan failed due to dust cloggage, which then overheated the board and popped the cap.
The cards would operate intermittently but had graphic issues very similar to these.