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After a while of not using my desktop because it had a virus on it and I was waiting to get a professional to clean out the viruses. I figured out how to get rid of it myself. So when I booted up my computer, it was running fine till it got to the XP welcome screen. I got a weird glitch in the video.


I tested it to see if it was the video card I had installed but after removing it and going back to the basic card, I found out that the glitch is still there. Any help?

PS: My desktop is a Compaq Presario SR1000, running XP. The video cards that I used were the stock one inside the Compaq, and a Sapphire x1650 pro 512m ddr2 agp vga/tvo/dvi-i card.
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The monitor probably needs replacing, but hook it up to a differnt PC and see what it's like on that. If you get the same weird pattern, it's definitly the monitor.
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Do you still have virus on that PC? If so, maybe it's affecting some type of visual drivers? But I don't know, that is weird...

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The monitor probably needs replacing, but hook it up to a differnt PC and see what it's like on that. If you get the same weird pattern, it's definitly the monitor.
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That wouldn't explain why it does it when he gets to boot screen though.
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Yeah, the virus is still there, I'm thinking of taking it to a computer repair shop Wednesday maybe. To see if they can do anything. I doubt it's the monitor, if so, like Mickey said, I wouldn't see the boot screen normally.
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Get a blank CD or a USB drive go to a friends house and go to http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download

Burn that .ISO onto a CD or USB drive as directed there.

Place CD into Disk Drive and select the disk drive as the boot source tell it to "Try Ubuntu" and then use the navigator to mount your XP HDD and get all those photos videos and other things you cannot live with out and put them onto a backup drive.

You can now Install the Linux OS or reinstall the XP OS what ever you do it's a way to keep your items with out loosing them.
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