How to Determine when video card goes Bad

[colwally]

Recently I started to get dotted lines on my screen, and some of my jpg pictures started to get blurry. Some of the text apears to be bleeding. is this a sign that the video card is bad or could it be something else?

 

[LinkedKube]

You need to post your specs so someone can further assist you.

 

[zephead]

what kind of monitor do you have? a quick way of finding the cause is simply swapping parts (use a different monitor, if no change use a different video card)

 

[sghiznaneck]

99.99% positive that your video card is either gone or on it's way. The first indicator (but not the only) are the lines and blurry picture. You could try swapping out a friends gpu just to make sure, I can pretty much guarantee the card is cooked.

 

[zipperman]

Yes more details

You could even post a picture you took that used to look ok.
Let us view it here and see how it looks.
But Try updateing your drivers even if there not newer.
But name the components,that should be obvious to include for help.

 

[Xylander]

What you're describing are also common flat-panel monitor going bad symptoms.