We've been remodeling our kitchen for a few weeks and I kept my home PC running most of each day. Yesterday evening I found it has hung with 6+ vertical lines on the screen. Num lock didn't work so I knew I was screwed! Boot screens have garbage characters where the lines are and it hangs with a totally screwed up screen after XP launches. Today I opened it up and blew out tons of insulation and sheetrock dust. I'm assuming that I fried something. Any ideas? I'm assuming I blew the display card but can it hang the system/
My system:
XP32
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4
EVGA GEFORCE 8800GTS 320MB
4GB (XP 32 only sees 3mb)
