Problem w/lines appearing on displays

Need a little help. Basically all the sudden these slanted vertical lines stating appearing all over my dual display setup. They go away if I move a window pane over them or try to grab them with the mouse. Even sometimes when I do drag a window pane the lines appear worse, and the graphics that makeup a window pane become jagged. If I click around the messed up graphics it gets fixed. Is this a video card problem? The fan is working on my graphics card. I don't think it's the displays, more of a software related issue it seems. But wanted to check 1st.
10.4.11
Dual 1.25 PowerPC G4
2GB RAM
Nvidea Geforce4 Ti
17" Apple cinema displays
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The US Military has developed a very sophisticated model of failures of electronic equipment. But if you are not using just-invented products and launching them into space, the main factors that dominate predicted failure rates are:
• Number of transistors
• chip junction temperature
Display cards have huge numbers of transistors due to the complexity of their processors and the enormous amount of fast memory. They also run fast, which means they run HOT. They would be predicted to fail very frequently.
Yet posters here very seldom post problems that are resolved with, "looks like a bad display card". To me this says either:
• They don't fail as often as we expect. \[In which case, kudos to the card designers for robust designs and good cooling!]
• When they fail, the problem is so obvious that the complaints never make it to postings here -- they are replaced without any need for additional debugging.

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