Techni-Color Screen of Death

Hey all,

I'm having the strangest problem. After leaving my PC off for a while and then booting up, the screen will go crazy. There are many small squares and lines of various colors aranged in a repeating pattern. This happens after the gray progress bar on the bottom of the page fills, and usually before the Windows XP loading screen apears.

However, if I go into the bios and just wait for about 30s and then boot up Windows, or press F8 before Windows loads and wait 30s, Windows will boot up just fine. This is a faily recent install of XP with SP2 and Norton IS. All my hardware is running on stock settings. I haven't installed any new hardware, and I've never had this problem before.

My question is, "What's causing my screen to freak out?"

I have this same problem, but it's not actually a problem.

I've started my computer up when it's like this, and when it gets to windows, the screen has returned to normal and there doesn't seem to be any problems. Regardless, I just reset my system if I see that and usually it gets corrected so I then go on with my business. I've seen it happen on two different monitors, so I think it has to do with my video card. I have an ASUS Radeon 9600 XT.

Anyway, it doesn't actually cause anything harmful, so I say just forget about it.

Ahh... Just noticed the handy feature on the bottom of the posting page here. Not what's-his-face, but Jaculum. Thats all staightened out.

Ouch.......

Hey, don't diss Zelda too much. It is a good RPG series(at least Ocarina of Time was...).