Bizarre Video Card Issue? Still under warranty, very displeased with Lenovo - Ideapad V470

This Lenovo of mine, the Ideapad V470, is a replacement of a replacement of a replacement through Lenovo--during that period multiple walk-in and out-sourced repairs were required on a ThinkPad Edge 14. (The process took over a year and a half).
Flash forward to today, on my V470, which has been running completely fine since day 1. (Which could not be said about the Edge 14), I close the laptop, put it in my bag, open it up (it never shut-down, just sleep).and I come to this...
[IMG]http://i42.tinypic.com/3588kkj.jpg[/IMG]
I am baffled, the only other time I've seen this is when my old Rosewill graphics card on my Compaq Presario (600MHz beast back in the day) started to die on me.
I know this has to be hardware related and not software because the distortion is prevalent on the Bios screen and the Splashlogo when booting.
The forum backround is a bright Cyan as I am writing this.
The red lines you see are fast moving pixels, that are continually shifting and moving, although maintaining the basic shape you see there. The laptop is only 3 months old or so, not even, I have the worst luck with computers!!!!!!
Also I have not dropped in, or spilled liquid on it. The only trip it took was a 15 minute car ride to my house from my fiances. This is ridiculous.
I'm *hoping* that perhaps flashing bios might fix the issue, but I highly highly highly doubt that...I'm going to wait on some input before doing so anyways.
Mod edit: Changed pic to link per forum rules. 50K limit on pics

Hi Ishbar,
Can you hook it up to an external monitor and see if it's the same?
Dave
T430u, x301, x200T, x61T, x61, x32, x41T, x40, U160, ThinkPad Tablet 1838-22R, Z500 touch, Yoga Tab 2 Windows 8.1, Yoga Tablet 3 Pro
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