Do you happen to have enough parts around that you can "parts-swap"? Either an extra (athalon-based) PC you can put the CPU into or an extra motherboard you can put in your PC.
At a minimum, see if you can borrow someone's "spare" graphics card - slow with only a little RAM is fine so long as it's AGP.
I'm just suggesting a very basic "swap stuff around and see if the problem moves". If it's the graphics card, for instance, this won't tell you what is wrong with the card - but will at least isolate the problem to the card.
I'm afraid I've never crushed a core so I'm not sure what to look for.
Hope it's a cheap fix!
Bob
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