MBP Retina screen flashes blue on login from sleep

When I login after leaving my computer alone for an hour or so, asleep for over 30 minutes, I get a repeated flash between my background screen and a blue screen, 3 or 4 times before I get to the actual desktop screen of my computer. This happened in Lion and still happens in Mountain Lion.
If I put the computer to sleep and wake it immediately I do not go through the flash cycle, I get right to my desktop.
Any thoughts or ideas before I make a Genius appointment and get this replaced? My concern is this is a bad chip/soldering job.
Erci

i had the same problem too and i think i could isolate its cause. I tried a few things on my 13 inch retina macbook pro like switching off functions like ''put hard disk to sleep when possible'' but this wasnt a solution to the problem... after alot of playing around with my macbook, i realised that this flashing problem only occured when my macbook was scaled up to any resolution other than the native resolution... when i went back to the native resolution, the flashing stopped and my macbook started almost instantaneously after opening the screen... you should try it out... and tell me what you think...
think it is pretty annoying that we get this issue when scaled up to some other resolution and wish there is a solution somewhere online to solve this... but for now, i think it is quite an annoying bug but still not something i cant live with...
tell me what think about it:)

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