9880 total chaos on my screen from booting up - video card?

hello!

when i start the laptop upon booting the screen is messed up..color blocks everywhere and a bunch of wwww-block-xxxx-color block etc etc ...then XP won't load just looping over and over..
i have a little break when starting in safe mode. I can read and see the screen but with tiny vertical green lines and tiny blue blocks everywhere. but i have acces to the desktop...but using the default driver.

i have to say the prob seems to start when i got my asus external monitor (dvi connection). i never used an external monitor before ( purchased in2005).

the prob show up on the external monitor ( extended desktop) also. i am afraid to reconnect it for fear of shorts or whatever as it is brand new.



i m not a tek. is there a way to reset the card? could removing the card and put it back could mybe solve it? and how can i do this?

thx in advanced.

More than a year later... update!

1 month ago, I tried to remember where i posted my need for help. The last post was from Zdroj. Wow! I knew i had to try this... one day, but that looked pretty scary to do.
Anyway that day came yesterday. the laptop was not being used anyway and i thought of putting it on ebay. But before that, i will have to try this "reflow"stuff.

I cooked the video card inside a saucepan on the gas stove.

I put a lead from another saucepan inside it, so to keep the card virtually in the middle of the heat.
I covered the whole thing and let it on high for at least 10 min.
I took my video card, put it in a aluminum foil so that no flat surface would get blasted by the heat more than other places.
the only spot that was open to the heat was the chip itself.
I placed the card inside, on top of that cover i had inside.
I closed the lead. i kept the flame on high for another 1 Mn or 2, then i turned the burner off.
I let the whole thing covered for 10 min. Went back, touched the top of the lead, felt it was maybe cooling too fast, then turned the burner back for another minute.
Then i let everything inside for the full cooling witch took more than 30 min or so.
I took my video card, put the little piece of plastic that was used for pulling the card out (i was afraid it would melt) back on it, closed everything back, prayed a little bit and...

It Worked! My beautiful WUXGA (1920x1200) screen is back!!

I installed ubuntu 10.04 and let it do all the updates, even the ati driver for ubuntu was tight! (I moved to win7 upgrade on my main desktop, so i could not keep my old XP on it and have any issues with M$ when going online)

thank you! Case Closed!