Oh gawd
I think my video card is dying. I already lost one of the card's two ports and the monitor. The monitor's replacement is hooked up to the second port and it's lost the signal twice already in the past two days, forcing me to shutdown manually. It fails to boot on the first try but works on the second. I'm going to stay away from games and see what happens since all the flare-ups occurred while I was playing a game or shortly thereafter. The worst part is it's snowing and they're saying things like "30 inches of snow" and "apocalypse" so if it dies completely, I'm going to have a few sharp words for whichever deity thought this up...