OK in safe mode it says there are no drivers installed for the card.
I've inserted the cd and it now says there is a severe error that the drivers are not compatible with the graphics acrd or operating system.
Zing the first thing is the msi motherboard window which comes up ok, then it changes to various shades of purple during the xp load then changes to a dark screen with the purple spots.
Then it goes blank, shows the "no signal" message but the hard drive keeps on for a while.
Thanks again