What happened to my Thinkpad screen? PIC

[lengendtp]

Yesterday, I ran a clean install of XP Pro. Installed all the latest drivers. The boot time from originally 2 and a half minutes cut to 1 minute and 15 sec where I can surf the net.. No problem..Happily I off the computer and went to bed..

But this morning, I woke up, pressed the ON button, there's this faint strip/band(1 inch) of lines from the top of the screen to the bottom greeting me.. Making me furious.. If got 2 strips, at least I can say this is made by MINI COOPER


The strip/band are uniform in density, contrast....just that the picture is badly taken..

Btw..can anyone tell me what's wrong??

Well, now I am trying to use the RnR discs that I have created to bring back to the originally Factory State, hoping for a miracle...

[jdhurst]

Does your BIOS have a screen expansion variable set that is in conflict with your screen resolution? I don't think so, but it is worth a check. Before you reimage, start up in BIOS and reset to default. Then reimage and see what happens. .... JDH

[lengendtp]

There's nothing for me to change in the BIOS.

Hopefully it's some cheap(Does it exists? It's a THINKPAD) thing that fails..

If it's the gpu, there should not be any display, or am I wrong?
I can only thing maybe the video cable or the backlight is faulty..

Actually quite irony..Is this a problem with Thinkpad screen?
Why I say so? Cause, the wallpaper provided by IBM show this.

It is trying to get people prepare to see this band of faded thing on the screen.
Mine is same as this, just that, the strip on the wallpaper stopped at the system tray, mine extend beyond till the bottom..