Visual Corruption Attacks

'd just got my G4 back to school, when I found that the ribbon connector to the Superdrive was jostled loose when I took my G4 in to TekServe for a new power supply. I re connected it, but now the picture was SERIOUSLY messing up. There was heavy visual corruption, and it all started when I tried to play a DVD. Now, it comes and goes, sometimes it's just a little static around the fringes of windows, other times white dots on my desktop, and other times it's a whole mess of static that totally freezes up my screen. When it's effecting a window, the static clings to the window until I drag it off screen. When I pull it back, it's fine, until the static starts appearing again when I click a link or scroll down or something.
I've tried reconnecting the power connector to my video card (Radeon 9800 Pro Mac), tried taking the card itself out and putting it back in, Reinstalling the driver for the card, and making sure my RAM was securely in (it wasn't, which was why it was running so slow, but it didn't fix the static). What the ** could this be? Is it the DVD drive, somehow killing the video? Is it the Monitor, or the Cable? I have to run the monitor though a DVI-ADC Adaptor, could that be the big problem? How about the card? How the ** would I KNOW?
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. I'm an artist and I use my computer a lot, so I really need some help.
Dual 1.25 GHz G4 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

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