Green screen issues on my macbook pro 2008

My screen on my 2008 macbook pro 15 inch sometimes goes green and than come back to normal after about 15 minutes. anyone have any idea on my issue is
Thanks
Vinceg5837

See Article: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2377 MacBook Pro: Distorted video or no video issues These computers were manufactured between approximately May 2007 and September 2008

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Current GPT partition table:
#      Start LBA      End LBA Type
1             40       409639 EFI System (FAT)
2         409640   1952940543 Unknown
3     1952940544   1954210079 Mac OS X Boot
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gpt show: disk0: mediasize=1000555581440; sectorsize=512; blocks=1954210120
gpt show: disk0: PMBR at sector 0
gpt show: disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: disk0: Sec GPT at sector 1954210119
       start        size index contents
           0           1         PMBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34           6
          40      409600      1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
      409640 1952530904      2 GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
1952940544     1269536      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
1954210080           7
1954210087          32         Sec GPT table
1954210119           1         Sec GPT header
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Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 121643/255/63 [1954210120 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [         1 - 1954210119] <Unknown ID>
2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
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/dev/disk0
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   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         999.7 GB   disk0s2
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/dev/disk2
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   0:     Apple_partition_scheme                        *21.0 MB    disk2
   1:        Apple_partition_map                         32.3 KB    disk2s1
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