Display Problem

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Any help regarding this problem would be great, as Im completely stumped.

Trying to set up a sort of basic HTPC/Home Server for the lounge running on an old 2.4 AMD and some other bits I had laying around. The thing worked fine for years, and was up until quite recently. However, I now have a problem where after the Windows loading screen the display just goes black, and hangs - With certain variations.

Windows XP sp2 - Black and hangs after loading screen.
Windows XP sp3 - Blue screen with dark stripes with mouse after loading screen, but hangs.
Windows 2003 Server - Works fine, after first installing drivers in safe mode.

All versions boot in to Safe Mode fine and install display drivers with no error messages.

Linux distributions that I have tried do the same, load up until a certain point.. Then display goes black just before login prompt.

Anyone have any ideas?
 
I honestly couldnt tell you.. The graphics card is a Geforce 4MX 440, that is all I know. Running a single 120gb IDE hard drive. It all worked fine up until ~week ago, when the screen started going black as described just before login prompt.
 
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