Black Circle on Laptop Monitor

I recently purchased a W520 with 6 GB of RAM and the Nvidia Quadro 1000M Graphics Card.
Occasionally a black circle appears in the upper left hand corner of my laptop monitor as shown in the enclosed image. Does anyone know what this is from? It appears to go away once I restart...
Here is an(updated) link to an image showing the issue.
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/ilKwrvuRDH67jLaXsD9y8g?feat=directlink
Thanks in advance for your help.
Marc

One thing I will note is that I this issue seems to have something to do with updating this machine. I'm not 100% sure but it seems that after running windows update or updating a driver, etc, this thing appears. Its almost like its telling me to restart.

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