If it's the vid card I believe it's built onto the mb 

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On Aug 12, 2011, at 9:29 AM, Allan Streib <str...@cs.indiana.edu> wrote:

> Rich Thomas <richthomas79td...@constructivity.net> writes:
> 
>> I had that problem when the vid card was going flaky.  Replaced it and
>> no more problems (twice actually).  It was a bunch of blown capacitors
>> on the board, when it got hot they quit capacitating.  But only in
>> regular mode, in safe mode it seemed to work which was kinda odd,
>> maybe it was not putting as much processing load on the vid board?
> 
> Safe mode uses a very low-level video mode (640x480?) and like 16 or 256
> colors, which probably does bypass much circuitry on the video card.
> 
> Allan
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