Horizontal lines flickering on screen. (Solved)

ForeverMore

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I was trying to reinstall OS X on my PC and after booting into the usb to install it a weird small 'X' pic came on the screen and the installer wouldn't show up. (Not looking for help with that.) So I restarted my computer and the screen said "Input Not Supported" or something similar.
I waited a while thinking it would leave eventually, but when it did it brought me to the Win 7 login screen where a bunch of horizontal flickering lines were scattered across the screen and the colours were messed up.
I replaced my PNY GeForce 760 OC GPU with an old one I had (ATI Radeon 4870) and the "Input Not Supported" went away but when I tried to boot into my OS X HDD the flickering lines were there but not as much as before. Win 7 doesn't have the lines though.
(They aren't there either when I go the BIOS or stuff like that.)
So I then tried my Intel HD Graphics and tried to boot OS X but I guess those Graphics aren't supported so I booted into Win 7 instead. "Input Not Supported" never came up and neither did the lines.
So I'm guessing that the problem might be the PCI slot but I don't know at all, it's just a guess.
Another guess is that the problem is the GPU so I'm thinking about getting a new one tomorrow that's why I need help within 16hrs so I don't go buy something I didn't need.
So any help would be great,
Thanks,

-ForeverMore-
 

ForeverMore

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OMG... I'm always thinking that problems are worse than they really are. I fixed it by using a VGA cable instead of a DVI and that seemed to fix the problem. Tomorrow I'm going to buy a new DVI cable.
But the problem may still be with the GPU, the DVI part of it though... Or the DVI part of the monitor, I don't know. I'll find out tomorrow.

(Update: )
I couldn't find a cheap DVI cable. Then I remembered that I had an HDMI to DVI cable and used that, connecting the HDMI part to the GPU and the DVI to the screen. The problem came back therefore revealing to me that the problem is with the monitor.
So I will be using VGA until I buy a new screen.