So last night I discovered my power supply had gone bad after two or three years. Fair enough. I went out and bought a new 300W power supply (the same wattage as the old one). So now, the computer runs. Good times. Except.
When I start the computer, I get subtle distortion. The "VPR Matrix" logo that comes up when I start has a few bars where black has turned to white. Odd patterns show up in the background of the boot menu (I dual boot between SuSe and WinXP). When it asks me to boot in safe mode, often there are incorrect characters throughout - ascii diamonds running down the page and replacing whatever letter happens to be in that column, unless by some chance it's selected (then it's a P). When I try to load Windows, I get through the status bar for loading, and then I get all sorts of garbage on a static image on the screen. SuSe will get through the status bar, and then freeze on whatever it does first on startup.
Any thoughts?