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[H] Comp vid problem, with pictures!

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Hello folks,

Not more than 20 minutes ago, I was loading up TF2, walked away to grab something to eat, and came back to this mess:













Basically the colors are all messed up, some of the green stripes look very matrixesque (and it'd be kinda cool looking if it wasn't my computer), and I just get very wierd bars/stripes of color at odd places.

Any ideas? Its definitely hardware as it happens pre-OS and in safe mode, I tried a second monitor, same thing happened on that. Used two completely different sets of RAM, happens on both. Only thing I can figure is Vid Card or MoBo (this is what I'm suspecting T_T). Anyone know how to tell for sure? Or any diagnostic tools I can run? Or any idea wth is going on?

Thanks!! :( 

Edit - To give more details...

Dell Dimension 8300 series
Windows XP home edition
Stock MoBo
ATI Radeon 9800 128MB vid card
2x 512mb Corsair RAM, 2x 256mb stock Samsung RAM

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Probably the vid card. It happens when the card over heats or dies. Did you recently install new drivers or programs (including) service packs? -- Just want to eliminate software.

Thats my thoughts, although it could be something else I'm not thinking of

bc: Not a darn thing was installed/updated recently. And I have all automatic updating turned off just so nothing gets on there without me noticing.

jbj190: inclined to agree, plan on doing that sometime tomorrow if I can track on down!

Thanks for the replies guys.
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