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Psychedelic thinkpad.. what's wrong?

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aakerman

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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
 
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.
 
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?
 
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