Today I go to sit down and use my computer (3 YO Alienware laptop), and everything is just peachy, when out of the blue the screen starts flickering and freaking out. Eventually the computer just freezes. I turn it off, go to turn it back on, and it boots. Now I'm waiting to see the BIOS loading screen pop up and nothing happens, processor light is not flickering as it should be when the computer boots so I turn it off. After a few tries I eventually get it up and running again, and after a few minutes of use it does the same thing. After trying all day I'm guessing that the video card must be shot, which would suck. The video card is directly soldered to the motherboard, which also has my RAM and processor directly soldered to it. So the whole core of the computer would be screwed just because of the video card. I'm hoping that maybe it isn't my video card and it's something else, anybody here have any idea what the problem may be?
If the computer is a goner I guess I will be dropping about $1200 for a decent iMac, which isn't too bad but if I don't have to spend it I won't.