I forgot to mention that I tried booting the computer using an Ubuntu Live cd and I still saw the brighter than normal washed out colors and the small wavy lines of shading that seem to jiggle. That may be a better description of the problem with the picture than what I stated earlier.
In case it helps I think the part number of the motherboard is CN-0CT103-70821-72C-E0HD and I saw Rev. A03 on the board. Also, I saw E139765 and AN2106 near the Dell logo on the board. I think some of the 0's in the part number may be O's but I can't be sure. I tried searching for that part number and had 0 search results.