Video anomaly

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Bob

When I booted up today, my boot screen (before getting to the Windows XP
scrren display) was blocky and pixelated. The opening XP scrren was the
same. When I got to the Welcome screen to login, the display was fine; but
upon logging on and getting to the desktop, the load time was blindingly
slow and after loading the desktop, I have some little fine vertical lines
the size of my mouse pointer that are bound to it somehow. All of the video
functions (open a browser, Control Panel, whatever) open slowly and, in the
case of the browser, the display wipes from top to bottom rather than just
loading and displaying. I removed my video drivers (Radeon 9700 Pro) and
reinstalled...made no difference...booted to safe mode...no
difference...chose a system restore point from 2 days ago and restored...no
difference...booted to bios and checked everything...nothing out of the
ordinary in the bios...

I haven't installed any software or hardware since I don't know
when...before I yank this card and replace it with my spare, I'm wondering
if there are any other things I can do or check to determine why (all of a
sudden) I would have this problem.

Thanks

Bob
 
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