Boy do I know how you feel! I've seen that look before on my previous computer. It was a Compaq and they tried for about a month to solve it and the only thing that finally worked was a new system board! But I think that my video card was integrated with the board. I was getting that scrambled look when I was trying to play video. I know I'm not helping yet but here goes....Are you reinstalling window on top of the old install?? You might try reformatting your drive first and do a clean install. I also had this look once when I still had older video codecs on my computer -you want to go to Indeo.com and download the latest video codecs-Thats the first thing you want to do! I'f that doesn't work try reinstalling windows clean and always update your codecs. If you reinstall your windows and update the codecs and it still is happening then it is a hardware problem. You should make sure that you have the latest drivers for your video card. It might be a problem with your card. I know this really sucks and I'm the type that won't give up until it's fixed. Let me know if you have any questions about this stuff.