computer problems

[Rhun]

My old comp is having trouble...

It's about 5 years old - athlon 2500 1.8ghz, 1gig ram, geforce 4 FX 5600 256mb.

If it doesn't reboot automatically after i start it up it will load things much slower than normal, and have a lot of graphic problems (things like menus or whatever will freeze on the screen). Every time i do anything the screen will go black for a second or two.

I tried getting new video card drivers, this did nothing. I figure it's probably my video card getting old and fucked up, or if not that maybe the processor or motherboard...other than that i'm not really sure.


I realize the description of this is pretty vague, but i can't really describe this any better...I'm probably going to get a new video card and see if that's the problem, any other suggesstions?