Screen tinted in pink and turns blank. LiveKernelEvent 1033

Question

Here's what the problem is:
1. The screen suddenly tinted in pink and turns black after 4-10 seconds. So I have to perform hard reset to reboot.
2. Nothing could be seen on the screen when I reboot but it would show up in external monitor, but there are vertical blue dotted lines on the screen and Windows would fail to start. It won't even get to the log in screen.
3. Rebooting again (using hard-reset) would bring me to Thinkvantage Rescue and Recovery startup repair and I can only fix the problem by restoring the system.
4. Then, Windows would be able to start like normal but the problem will occur again after 5-10 hours. Or else the screen will not turn on after I sleep or hibernate so I have to repeat step 2 and 3.
Today I performed a full restore using ThinkVantage Rescue and Recovery so the system has it's factory settings. Everything looks OK so it gives me a relief that was temporary. The problem will always occur again if I try to update the score in Windows Experience Index. After the screen flashing during the rating update, the screen suddenly tinted in pink or green and then blank so I have to repeat step 2,3 and 4.
Every video components passes when I tested the video card using PC Doctor 5. Sometimes after I restore the system, there is a message in Windows which sounds something like this: "Windows succesfully recovered from display adapter problem". I thought changing the display driver will fix the problem, but it will happen no matter what driver I used. I tried the newest driver that was released in 2009 (http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-67890.html), the older one released in 2008 and also the default factory driver released in 2007.Everything won't seem to work.
Update: I knew from Windows Problem Reports and Solution that it's caused by a hardware problem. Here's the details:
Description
A problem with your video hardware caused Windows to stop working correctly.
Problem signature
Problem Event Name:    LiveKernelEvent
OS Version:    6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID:    1033
Files that help describe the problem
WD-20090712-0252.dmp
sysdata.xml
Version.txt
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Warning: If a virus or other security threat caused the problem, opening a copy of the files could harm your computer.
Extra information about the problem
BCCode:    117
BCP1:    83CF6950
BCP2:    8B337FC0
BCP3:    00000000
BCP4:    00000000
OS Version:    6_0_6000
Service Pack:    0_0
Product:    256_1
Is there a way to solve the problem?
Message Edited by gjoy993 on 07-12-2009 02:07 AM
Lenovo T61 Intel Core 2 Duo T7500
NVidia Quadro NVS 140M
Vista Ultimate 32-bit

Answer 1

Thanks for the reply. It is possible that the CCFL backlight or inverter board can stop working when I do certain things? (such as updating my rating in Windows Experience Index).
Besides, the problem happens to both laptop monitor and external monitor. The only time that only the external monitor shows something but the laptop monitor does not is when I reboot the computer (in step 2). After I restored the system, both monitors work as normal until the problem randomly happen again.
Here's some more info:
-The problem won't happen in safe mode
- I updated ALL the drivers to the most recent ones but it doesn't work
Message Edited by gjoy993 on 07-13-2009 12:19 AM
Lenovo T61 Intel Core 2 Duo T7500
NVidia Quadro NVS 140M
Vista Ultimate 32-bit