Psychedelic thinkpad.. what's wrong?

[aakerman]

Just check out this screenshot:
weird

Yesterday it was fine, and now 10 minutes ago when I booted it looked like this..

What the h.. is wrong? Never seen anything like this before. The patterns change a bit, at boot they have other colours etc.
But if you can see it too, on a screenshot, it's not a hardware problem right? But if it isn't, howcome it's there at boot.. hmm

 

[2Xtreme21]

Hmm, check video card temps. Also remove any overclocks on it... I've only ever seen something like that once and that's when I tried to unlock my friend's 6800-- upon reboot, it produced symptoms just like yours.

 

[aakerman]

Hmm.. it's never been overclocked I'll try and put it in a cool place when I get home.

 

[porcorosso]

The fact that the anomaly shows up in a screen capture does NOT mean that the problem is not hardware. It only means that the problem you have is not intrinsic to the LCD / monitor hardware itself -- and, also, that the problem is not caused by the signal path from the video subsystem to the monitor. That screenshot looks very much like a video memory issue to me. I suppose it's also possible for the problem to be the GPU, but I've never seen one fail that way. Does this thinkpad use a video subsystem that uses main memory, or does it have its own memory?