Graphics card fans have trouble moving

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Jul 22, 2014
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I have a ~5 year old MSI N560GTX-TI Twin Frozr II, and up until now I have had no problems with it. Today I have gotten a series of BSOD's, and I found out that it was from the graphics card overheating.
I opened up the computer, and found that the fans of the graphics card weren't moving. One of them would start moving for about 1 second, then stop moving for about 3, then continue like that. As I'm writing this, the other is moving only after I physically "jump-started" it.

I have already tried cleaning the area around the fans using a spray duster, and by manually scraping off dust that was stuck.

Please help :)

EDIT: I have given up and bought a new graphics card.