Scrambled text in DOS

Hi guys,
I'm having a problem. While playing MS Flight Simulator, my display went purple, near solid. I found when I rebooted, all the text on screen was garbled. Windows failed to load, and would load only in safe mode. No problem thought I, I'll simply Ghost back a previous good backup (just for such occasions). No good. Try a different backup. No dice. How 'bout a fresh install? Nothing. The text is garbled even in the BIOS screen. Even with a empty formated disk running from a floppy. The best I could get is Windows 640x480 with only 16 colors. Any ideas?

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Originally posted by Deathstalker
thebone,
You let your Vid Card cool down before booting again to make sure it is not heat related?
Richard
Hi Deathstalker,
I'm pretty sure it's not heat related. There is a total of ten fans running three of which are intake. There are heat sinks epoxied to the video ram as well. I'm thinking (hoping)that there is some default or hidden setting or perhaps a hack to modify the way system fonts are handled.

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