5D Mark II viewfinder digital display issues

Hello everyone, 
I have a 5D M2 and have started noticing my viewfinder digital display displaying funky when certain amount of light comes in or adjusting the ISO. For example, the numbers for shutter, apature, and ISO are hard to read. My exposure meter shows three bars instead of one. Again this is when over exposing the images slightly. If I under expose it by bit, viewfinder display works good. 
I have attached a couple of images. 
Has anyone experience this? I'm trying to find out how much i'll be looking at to repair it before i send it to Canon. 

We really need to ask a current 5D Mk II owner as I sold mine a long while ago.  Maybe it didn't have that feature?  Another thing to check, make sure you have the correct focusing screen selected in the menu.  The wrong one can darken the viewfinder.
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