Display Problem Upon Initial Reboot

[Neeraj Gupta]

I just installed FC2 on a Compaq (Optiquest monitor) and everything went 
fine, it seemed, until I was prompted to reboot. After "udev" and 
"Initializing hardware" it opened up a GUI and I saw an hourglass for just a 
few seconds. After that, my computer froze with a bizarre color pattern: 
vertical stripes of random color and width. This happens every time I try to 
boot. Any idea?

I'm very new to this--my apologies if this is redundant; I couldn't locate 
anything in the fedora-list archive.

Thanks in advance,
Neeraj