HELP HELP DISTORTED SCREEN

[CYNTRA]

PROBLEM:  COMPUTER STARTS UP THEN AFTER A FEW SECONDS THE SCREEN BECOMES DISTORTED LINES BLOCK ETC DIFFERENT COLORS AFTER I CANNOT SEE ANYTHING SOMETIMES ITS JUST A WHITE SCREEN WITH A SMALL BLACK SQUARE.


Hi if anyone has some insight into this problem and knows what could possibly be the reason for this  I would be so grateful.

windows xp proffessional on Intel Pentium 4 CPU running at 2.2GHz


LCD DISPLAY14.1"  XGA TFT Active Matrix Color Displays - 1024x768 32-bit True Color,

Graphics
ATI Mobility Radeon M6-D 4X AGP w/16MB DDR dedicated video memory

COULD THIS BE THE VIDEO CARD.?  THANKS MUCH

[CYNTRAX]

I Forgot to mention that it was a laptop

[MalikTous]

Looks like either the video controller for the display is going south or the cable from the MB to the display has begun taking a powder. Does it do this if the AC adapter is plugged in? If it runs normal with the adapter in, try a fresh battery, you could be dealing with low voltage from a dead cell.