Help! My Imac has a very wierd screen problem!

Hey all Mac users.
I really hope that someone here can help me. A few minutes ago my screen went totally bananas! I was using photoshop when it happened. It didn't seem that my programs were affected, just my screen. I could see my mouse and move it on the screen.
This is the first time a thing like this has happened. I manually turned off the computer to restart it.
Here's a picture of what it looked like:
A friend told me that i should get a hardware/memory test but i think you need a cd for that or something? I am so bad at these computer problems..
I really hope that someone can tell me what's going on with my mac. I really don't hope that it will happen again!

Yes there is a hardware test you can run. Quite possibly it's still on the hard drive's hidden partition if you don't have the disks. More information about that here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1883
So what happened after you restarted the computer? Does - or did - the problem only occur while running Photoshop? If it has only happened once I'd wait and see if it does it again. It may have been just a one time glitch.

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