Hello,

Apologies in advance for any spelling or grammatical errors.  I can't see half of my screen properly.

I turned my computer on today to an unpleasant surprise.  Last night it was working just fine, and I SHUT it down as usual.  Today, as soon as I turned it on, desktop icon graphics were replaced by FUZZY colourful blobs, and four vertical columns of monitor "static" are on the screen.  Other parts of the display seem to be normal or staticy at random.

I'm not SURE if I can link images here, but this is what my screen looks like:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/Ooka/untitled.jpg

I tried HOOKING up a different monitor, but the problem remained (second monitor works just fine on second computer).  I therefore assume that the problem is with the computer.

I'm running Windows XP, but don't know offhand the hardware SPECS for this machine.  It is about 5 years old.

Any ideas on what's gone wrong here?looks like either a issue with your video driver or the video adapter itself.Might be time to buy a new video card. mite even be were the card goes into the slot its self.  dont know how good it is to say get a new one.  xp looks for changes in hardware but usually its pnp will that make any difference?