Why is my display messed up?

Windows xp desktop display messed up?

• don't know what happened i started my pc just fine and then suddenly the computer hangs so i turn off the power switch and reboot it. after that when it reaches the desktop everything looks messed up! the text seems to be overlapping or also unreadable! the desktop is a whole mess! the text the icons the taskbar they are all misplaced!T_T so i tried to restart same thing it's still messed up! and i tried windows xp repair but nothing still it looks messed up!? i don;t know what happened.. i tried starting in safe mode and everything looks fine now and i did run a scan of antivirus but no virus has been detected or so but does anyone know what could have caused this? T___T

• Answer:

  Sounds like your video card took a dump! By going into safe mode you enabled the minimal video drivers and the screen came back. This tells me you have a problem with your video card. I would first try a few things in video properties like changing screen resolution and so on. You may have accidently misconfigured it! If you have booted it as you normally would, and the problem didnt come back, it may simply have been that you had a program such as a video game running in the background and it didnt reset your graphics mode when you shut down. Different games and software change your resolution automatically and simply powering the sytem down by switching it off may have been the problem.