It might depend on what exactly you tinkered in what of the tabs of MSCONFIG and what "normal" means, but it looks like a hardware issue.
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After tinkering with msconfig and returning it to normal The bottom of my desktop screen turned white and I could no longer get on the net. Help!!!!

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