Frozen white screen and vertical stripes on boot

my early 2011 17" MBP  lcd has vertical stripes and gets frozen white screen on boot. Is there any fix to this?

It sounds like it could be a display or a display connection fault.  An appointment at an Apple store genius bar should be made.  The evaluation will be for FREE.
Ciao.

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