I have a Compaq from 2000 and like 2 1/2 years ago lines started showing up on the monitor. Like text you be "smeared" full horizontally accross the monitor. Every image is "smeared" accross the screen but everything is legible and all that. And now the image is starting to be tinted different colors. I hooked a different monitor to the machine to make sure it wasnt the monitor and I still had the same problems so that made me think that it is the GFX card going bad. I just wanted to know if GFX cards could slowly go bad or if you think my problem is being caused by something else.