"Racing Stripe" vertical in the middle of the screen

I closed my 2008 dual core macbook yesterday for a few minutes and reopened it. Yikes! I have this 3/4 inch stripe of quivering pixels from top to bottom on the screen. I have restarted it with no resolution. Is this the beginning of the end or can I fix it?
Thank you very much in advance.
George
Arizona

Hard to say for sure but sounds like beginning of end. Does it respond to pressure placed along the edges of the screen or else light bending/twisting of the screen? That's a sure sign of TAB board failure, which can only be fixed by replacing the display (expensive).

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