REPAIR YOUR GRAPHICS CARD: You might not need to buy a new graphics card which can be expensive and only adds to environmental waste! How to fix your video graphics card by baking it! My video card is a Nvidia 8800 Geoforce GT. Squiggly lines showed up on my computer! Remove the video card from your tower, remove the screws, clean off the thermal compound paste with qtips and rubbing alcohol, place the card face up on 4 tinfoil balls on a baking sheeting, preheat oven to 375ºf and bake for 10 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool for 30 minutes. Put the video card back together and put it back in your tower, start up your computer, cross your fingers and hope for the best! This worked for me, no guarantees that it will work for you! Make sure you use oven mitts! If you’ve booted up your computer only to find red lines and other graphics issues, you might be able to save that graphics card by putting it in the oven. Lines across your screen and other graphics abnormalities are called artifacts, and they’re likely to occur when your video card is failing. If it’sreally dying, you might even get a blank screen or program crashes due to overheating. It turns out, a bit of heat is the perfect medicine. Things you’ll want to be careful of: WATCH HERE : Make sure to remove the heatsink and any other plastic parts from your card. Melted plastic all over your card is bad news. Place a few balls of tin foil on a tray and rest the card on them so it isn’t touching the tray. Make sure to put the card in chip side up, otherwise the chip will fall off. You’ll want to bake it for around 8 minutes at 385°F. The time is flexibile; the general consensus is that anywhere between 5 minutes and 12 minutes should be okay. Obviously, let it cool off before you stick it back in your machine.