Diagnial Lines in my MacBook Pro LCD

http://yfrog.com/4omacgtj
Has anyone ever seen this?
Nothing happened to the laptop, Now I cant even boot the laptop.

Outlawnomad --
I've been doing quite a bit of reading on this topic over the last couple of days. It looks like there's a lot of folks who have encountered the same/similar problems with their 1st generation Macbook Pros and white Intel iMacs – in short, all machines using the same GPU (ATI Radeon X1600).
It seems obvious that this GPU was badly designed and extremely prone to overheating; why Apple would have chosen to put such a chip inside a cramped portable computer beats the h*ll outta me but there you have it.
There are a few crutches (*) that allow you to at least boot the machine to get data off it and/or to run it for extremely light tasks, but in the end the GPU is dying and while Apple has chosen to own up to the defective nVidias in later models (the ones mentioned by S.U. above), us 1st gen. MBP adopters get hung out to dry.
This issue seems to be widespread and is definitely known to Apple ... there's already a 2 1/2 year old, very long thread (almost 50 pages) on these very forums: "http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1697470&start=0&tstart=0"
My Intel MBP from 2006 is toast (literally), whereas my 17" Powerbook from 2005 continues to work like a charm ... just another piece of anecdotal evidence that Apple's QC is going the way of the dodo.
(* - such as booting into safe mode – disables the GPU, install fan control software to keep the GPU from overheating, using external fans to keep the machine cooler; none of them are permanent solutions)

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