So I've been playing FEAR and Rainbow Six Vegas lately and have run into a recurring problem. After about an hour or so of playtime, the screen glitches horribly giving a massively distorted image and the computer locks up entirely. When I restart there are several pixels that look like stuck pixels on the Splash Screen, and they remain there after Windows has loaded and I'm on my desktop. However, if I close the lid and reopen it, the pixels are all fine. I've had my laptop for about a year and 4 months at this point, and have had it overclocked at 480/1100 for about a year of that time. I'm just wondering if this could be a sign that my graphics card is dying or if there is some other underlying problem. Thanks for any help.
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Odd graphics problem. Sign of Graphics card dying?
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Your problem resonates the same tale as my problem. I just made a post here about my Inspiron 9300's catastrophic in-game failure. I was playing Counter-Strike: Source and everything was running smoothly when suddenly the system locked up and the game became distorted with all sorts of artifacts and randomly colored pixels on-screen. When I rebooted the Dell-logo boot screen was pixelated white and had horizontal lines. Right now, I can't boot into Windows XP. I'm locked out of my system, so I'm using my friend's mac till I can find out what happened. I fear my graphics card shit itself to death and therefore has doomed my machine. 
I'll get back to you on this if I hear anything from someone else.

I'll get back to you on this if I hear anything from someone else.
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Hey man, I just ran a diagnostic on my Inspiron 9300 a while ago and found out that the RAM on my GPU fried itself. So I had little alternative and scrapped the entire machine and posted the parts all up on ebay. I went ahead and purchased a Vostro 200 desktop to replace my dead lappy. Damn be the GPU. :\
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