Need Help With Display Problems...

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A strange problem developed on my monitor immediately after the "Dish
Satellite" guy installed the Dish for us. While he was at my house he
asked me to turn-off my computer as he was going to have the Dish Box make a
connection with his office to download something via the phone line. As we
have dsl, I guess he felt there might be a problem leaving the computer on.

So I turned-off the computer, which I seldom do, and he attempted his
call-out which for some reason didn't work for him. As he was about to
leave, I re-booted my computer. The normal text I would see on the monitor
as it boots up looked like gobbledy-gook. Many of the words were there,
but some of the letters were spaced way-out. Presently, when I boot-up,
which I've done numerous times since yesterday, the main windows screen does
all kinds of strange things: vertical lines, cursor almost non existent and
frequently just a mere speck; often when moving the mouse a bit, the screen
goes black for a moment. strangely enough, when I go on the internet via
Internet Explorer, things seem to work okay, with some minor display
problems and black-outs.

I went out and bought another monitor, thinking that must have been the
problem, but it wasn't. Would the most likely culprit be a bad video-card?
That's all I could guess... Btw, I scanned my computer for any viruses
and/or spyware, and both scans turned-up nothing. I'm not sure if the Dish
guy had anything to do with my problem, or if it's just a mere coincidence.
I would appreciate any tips/advice with my display problems. Thanks in
advance.


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