macbook (MB466ll/a) screen flicker
Hi there, new to the community and a first time Mac owner. I just purchased for my first mac a refurbished 2008 Macbook Aluminum. Model number MB466ll/a. The RAM is upgraded to 8 GB, and the hard drive is also upgraded to 750 GB. The issues I'm having is from time to time when I'm using the computer, black bars will start flashing across the screen. Sometimes the problem will go away for a bit and come back later, and other times it will go from black bars flashing to crazy colors and wavy lines, followed by the computer freezing. I'll reboot the computer and it will run fine, so it seems to me to be more of a software hang up. Also to note I'm running OSX 10.10.2 Yosemite. It seems like lots of people are having graphical issues with their older mac computers on Yosemite.
The problem would happen a lot while I was in safari, so I installed Firefox and it doesn't happen nearly as often now, but sometimes while I'm even browsing files in Finder it will happen. Never seem to have problems while watching videos on YouTube (so far).
What do you guys think?
MacBook, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)