> 1.  Cleaning -- Well, I cleaned it out as best I could.  I tried a vacuum
> and a wisk broom.  It's hard to a lot of the areas because of all of the
> things sticking up in the air and covering other things up.  I have to say,
> however, that it really didn't look all that dirty.
>
> 2. Power supply -- How does one test the power supply?
>
> Overall, as I said above, I'm suspecting a bad video card as the culprit.
>
> Thanks,
> Greg Wallace
>
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What DELL model is it?

This might be a start for finding manuals etc: 
http://support.euro.dell.com/support/index.aspx

I´ve been following this thread.
For a couple of weeks ago I installed SuSe 10.0 on a friends computer.
Everything was up running just fine. My friend doesn´t know much about computers so
before I should leave his place I said that he should switch of the computer and start
it by him self, so I could see that he could manage it.
It DIDN´T start. It didn´t try to boot from hd, cd or dvd. It didn´t enter bios. Totally dead.
After 30-40 tries it suddenly started again (with no problems). The difference here is that there´s
never any messed up screen on this computer. Either it doesn´t boot or it boots and run perfectly.
In my opinion it´s the power supply that´s the week part in this DELL computer.
When I opened the case of the computer I saw the BIGGEST Cpu fan I have ever seen. It occupies
half the case and there´s to big holes in the sides of the case letting out hot air from the cpu.
I said to my my friend that he has to have the computer up running until I know what to do.

As I remember it´s a DELL (for shure) ~Dimension 5000.
Ati graphics X300.
Intel P4 3Ghz With a fan s big as Sweden...

The construction as I see it should never have left the factory.



/Peo

   
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