I am seeing funny color bars and messed up displays on my Mac

I have an iMac intel duo core desktop with OS 10.6.3 updted to 10.6.8. My colr and screen is messed up with wierd patches of color bars, jagged and distorted images. What is the problem?

Sounds like a hardware fault. Most likely the integrated video card. Take it in to an Apple Store if there's one near you and have a Genius look it over.

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