Dead and white screen

Ok my 3gs died so I plugged it in to charge. I went back and it was at this white screen. I have tried to let it charge and taken it off. Nothing will happen it just remains sort of lit and if I hit the home button a complete white screen appears. Can anyone help?

I am not sure what I did, but this problem seems to have remedied itself. I called the apple support number and of course my iBooks serial number did not fall into the serial number range being covered by the extended logic board replacement program. The phone tech suggest that I reset the PMU and the PRAM. I followed the directions for this, but there was not change. The display continued to have the shimmering red lines and bluish tint.
I went into to work on monday (11/7/05) and connected my iBook to the Dell Monitor I have at work using the video adaptor cable. The monitor display was fine. I disconnected the iBook and its display was fine also. Its been about about week and it is still perfect. I should note that before going in to work monday morning, I uninstalled Office X, gmail notifier, Photoshop CS, and Dreamweaver. I have since reinstalled all but gmail notifier. Not sure if just plugging it into an external monitor was what fixed it or not. But it seems to have worked for me...I can't explain it. One of those apple mysteries that may never be solved!

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