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Solve : Upgraded Dell Inspiron to Win XP, worked fine then display went haywire?

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I have an old Dell Inspiron 5000 model ppm that came with window 98, I had the error MESSAGE "cannot find explorer.exe, REINSTALL windows" and I installed window xp onto the computer. It worked perfectly and must faster than I had expected for about three hours, I then shut it down and upon start, the screen was DISTORTED with inch long, horizontal lines. It is so bad that I really cannot access anything on the computer to fix it. I can't get into BIOS because it is the same there and therefore I cannot startup in safe mode either. Help!  Have you tried a different monitor?Yes, I have. It shows up the same. I have been tweaking the properties a bit and it helped a smidge but it is still quite unusable.If another monitor does the same THING, then I would think it a motherboard issue.
Open your computer up and blow all of the dust out. Now see if you can get into BIOS.Before we BLAME it on the motherboard...do you think we should take a look at the video card?



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