IMac early 2009 freezes and monitor is flickering

Hello,
After being a Macuser for about 25 years, i now have a question.
After a while my old iMac (iMac (24-inch Early 2009), OS X Yosemite (10.10.2), 2,93 Ghz, 8 GB RAM, GeForce GT120) suddenly freezes and the Monitor starts flickering. The upper half is flickering and the lower half is black.
Only way to get back to it, is to do a hard reset by holding the Power button for a while. Then it starts up normal. Sometimes it asks for sending a Crashreport sometimes not.
Does anybody have an idea?
Cheers,
Thomas

Difficult to say, run Apple's Hardware Test in extended mode 2-3 times back to back. The reason to run it multiple times is AHT does not always find errors after the 1-2nd pass, however when it does they are correct. If errors are found, take it in for service.

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