My screen got pixelated

While I was listening to an online radio program my screen got all pixelated. The program was still playing. I did a hard shut down and rebooted. The same pixelation happened. Now it won't even reboot.

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Hello,
Two days ago my screen started to really show some weird things, my screen would begin to tear/pixelate and show weird stuff, this happened more often when i scrolled the page. Here are some screenshots to show you what i mean:
Screen 1: http://oi46.tinypic.com/10ckhmh.jpg
Screen 2: http://oi48.tinypic.com/15bw3k.jpg
Note: This was not a browser issue, this happened all over my screen no matter what application i had open at the time.
So after this i tried to lower my screen resolution, in a wild hope that it would fix this problem, so i lowered my resolution from 2560 x 1440 to 1920 x 1440
When this happened my screen got white with a few black dots on it, i could move my mouse but nothing else, when i clicked somewhere with my mouse nothing happened, i could just move it around the white pixelated screen.
So i shut down my computer with the button, it was the only way i could do it, and i started it again, now my computer would boot up in this white pixelated screen and there is absolutely nothing i can do, i can't take any action or open any program or whatsoever.. Here's a picture of what i get:
Screen: http://oi49.tinypic.com/34q1vkl.jpg
So after this happened i tried booting into safe mode and safe mode works fine, no screen problem whatsoever, i tried looking for fixes to this problem and so far:
Things i've tried that did not work so far:
- Resetting PRAM (Command+Alt+P+R when booting)
- Taking the power out of my mac and holding the power button for 10+ seconds
- Hardware test (No problems were found)
- Deleting the file " /Users/<yourname>/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.windowserver.XXXXX.plist "
So any help would be greatly appreciated, i am at a lost here currently..
Thanks in advance!

UPDATE
I managed to solve my start up problem by deleting the file on my iMac HD instead of the /User/Myname Library. I am talking about this Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver.plist"
So i can boot my computer into normal mode again so that's fine, however the first problem still persists
Screen 1: http://oi46.tinypic.com/10ckhmh.jpg
Screen 2: http://oi48.tinypic.com/15bw3k.jpg
And it seems like its gotten worse when i open big programs like Ableton (Music Creation) or Adobe Photoshop. So any advice here would be greatly appreciated

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hi all ,
i am working for ess mss portal , all of a suddden portal screen got down with unwanted sizing , kindly suggest me .....how to get default sizing ...any idea ?

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1) apologies, i was busy yesterday and dint see your mails and SDN to reply u back
2) i already told you , you need to specify the correct path of the services, if the path was wrong how it can be reflected. the path you specified doesn't contain any data so it was reflecting the blank page
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When installing the new update (running OS10.6.8 before) the computer restarted during installation.of program.
After that the screen is just totally white. What happened and what shall I do?

Thank you.
I’m writing from a PC at the moment.
Thanks for the answer. I can’t save anything now, the computer is ‘dead’ it is a shame on all I have on the computer.
And all this problems because of my banc who wanted my to update in order to put in a special identification program.
Who shall I blame?
I have to rebote my computer.
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