Are these symptoms of a video card is dying?

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Published on 2013-11-04T15:47:23Z Indexed on 2013/11/04 15:58 UTC
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What I am getting from my PC:

  1. Scrambled text in the boot menu.
  2. The scrambled text dissapears and everthing goes normal after several restarts, or the computer has worked for some time.
  3. Display goes blank showing, windows kernel mode driver stopped responding.
  4. Sometimes the windows just hangs, I need to restart the pc for that.
  5. There used to be some scrambled colors in my windows, so I cleaned up my video carda and port and reinstalled the video card, things are something right.
  6. The pc runs normally for hours in safe mode, as diffault display driver works at that case.

My PC specs:

  • Core 2 Duo processor
  • 2 GB RAM
  • NVIDIA EN210 SILENT GPU
  • Windows 8

Drivers details: NVIDIA drivers - v331.65, told to be fully compatible with Win8

Currently I am installing Windows 7 and will be putting the older version of driver v320 to test, yet I'm really confused weather my GPU is dying or still on go.

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