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found an interesting thing which im gonna try just before my new card from ebay arrives Fix Your Graphics Card By Baking In Oven

@unreal25 - i hope you're right and it's the card not motherboard, a new 9800m gs is on its way .. ordered one from ebay for $210 + shipping

@unreal25 - nvidia geforce 9800m gs i took everything apart, cleaned and re-pasted GPU & CPU but without any positive results, the only thing that works is the cardboard paper but only temporarily. i've tried applying all kinds of pressure on different spots on the heat sink, turning on the laptop for a while without the heat sink, stuffing some isolation underneath the card but as i said, nothing permanently worked. the lines show up eventually and this is getting really frustrating not really knowing whether it is the card or motherboard. but im hoping it's the video card. so i guess i am going to order a new graphic card from ebay, ive seen some around 150 USD which is still much cheaper than buying a new gaming laptop. thank you all for their advice

thank you all for their input, im going to take the heat sink and gpu apart and will clean and re-paste everything, the problem is that my laptop is over 3 years old and i no longer have any documentation that came with it. i would like to point out that the lines occur only when the laptop is warmed up. for example i left it in the car overnight a couple days ago and in the morning everything worked flawlessly. last night out of desperation i fixed the problem with a kind of a redneck fix, i used a stack of cardboard paper folded the way it applies pressure on that certain place on the heatsink and closed the back lid tight. for now it works, i even ran a benchmark test and stressed the card to the max, no crash or lines whatsoever.

Hello everybody, I have a strange problem with my ASUS G50V laptop. All of a sudden my screen started showing 5 columns of about 7 vertical lines of turquoise lines (sometimes they flicker too when I move the cursor over them). Another strange thing is that when I removed the back cover and applied a pressure on a certain place of the heat sink (not directly above the GPU but about 3 cm to the left) the lines disappear or turn red and when I reboot the laptop Windows even detect the correct video card and everything works fine until I release the pressure from the heat sink, then the lines appear again. Also when the computer is cold the lines do not show. Any ideas what might be causing it? Please help. Thank you.