Markus- thanks for your feedback, certainly it does not sound as if the video card will solve the problem. Mine is less frequent than yours though- perhaps once a week, but the symptoms sound the same.
I have tried CPU burn and run Memtest overnight and this works fine which made me doubt hardware as the problem. That was why I was suspicious of the video card, especially given the display corruption. I also wonder if the drivers are stable given that Nvidia integrated drivers seem to be problematic from my experience compared to their cards.
Markus- thanks for your feedback, certainly it does not sound as if the video card will solve the problem. Mine is less frequent than yours though- perhaps once a week, but the symptoms sound the same.
I have tried CPU burn and run Memtest overnight and this works fine which made me doubt hardware as the problem. That was why I was suspicious of the video card, especially given the display corruption. I also wonder if the drivers are stable given that Nvidia integrated drivers seem to be problematic from my experience compared to their cards.