Horizontal lines on screen edges macbook pro unibody 2008

I've suddenly got horizontal lines around the edges of my screen. I'm on a MBP late 2008 15". I have no idea what's causing it but it's definitely hardare related since they don't show up on a screen shot. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

You're just going to have to break down and take your machine to your local Apple Store or an AASP. It could be a GPU glitch, anything. Nothing odd about it not showing on a screenshot - you can only capture what's there on screen.
Go ahead and make that appointment with the Genius Bar folks...
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