Green Screen MPB Mid 2009 model HELP

Hi, I bought my MBP January 2010, and have had no problems with it until this morning. It was in sleep mode over night and when I turned it back on the screen on the MPD began to flicker and now there is a series of fuzzy green lines through out the screen. I am running an external display and it is displaying perfectly. There are two graphics cards installed; NIVIDIA GeForce 900M and NIVIDIA 9600M GT. I have switched between both cards and there is no change, which would lead me to believe that the graphics cards are not the problem (as stated in previous threads)
Does anyone know what the problem might be, and if it was a design flaw at the manufacturing stage am i entitled to a free repair, bearing in mind that the MBP is now 2.5 years old

It could be the display, it could be the cable. Bring it to a genius bar for a free diagnostic test and they should be able to determine what the exact problem is and the costs involved. Unless you have Apple care, I doubt that any repair will be free.
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Glossy screen is obnoxious: I never bought an anti-glare screen cover to deal with this as I had originally planned. And no, I still don't want a retina MBP.
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Type: DDR3
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NVidia MCP79 AHCI - Hitachi HTS545016B9SA02:
Capacity: 160.04 GB (160,041,885,696 bytes)
Model: Hitachi HTS545016B9SA02
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Running OSX 10.8.5
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1TB Serial ATA Drive @ 5400 rpm
SuperDrive 8x (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
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it reads as though an internal disk upgrade (and possibly a battery replacement) would suffice for you, and those two together would be far less expensive than a new MacBook Pro. Yes, you could install either a HDD or a SSD in place of its current internal HDD. You could look at the Hitachi Travelstar 7K1000 as an example of a suitable 1 TB HDD; SSDs are more expensive per unit of storage than a HDD, but might be worth the extra cost if your apps are disk-bound. (I put a Samsung 840 PRO into my 13-inch Mid 2010 model, and it’s been working well.) Note that Chrome might be responsible for the extra heat (and the extra heat is responsible for the increased volume from the fans kicking in); Chrome isn’t optimized for use on 64-bit versions of OS X, like 10.8.5.

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