T40 video driver issues

My ThinkPad T40 recently had some strange scrambled lines across the screen. They aren't constant and they don't show up when I switch HD's to my Fedora setup. It only shows up in the XP setup, and it is red on white, blue on black, and various other colors depending on what is underneath it.
When I formatted the drive, thinking it was a corruption in the windows system files, it had gone away, but when I installed the video driver (ATI Radeon 7500) and rebooted the system, the lines had shown up again. I uninstalled the video driver, and the lines went away, but Window's plug and play didn't let me stay that way for long as it automatically reinstalled the ATI Radeon 7500 driver. The lines returned upon a reboot of after the drivers were installed.
I took photographs of the issue.
http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l273/Kasugano/DSCN1830.jpg
http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l273/Kasugano/DSCN1831.jpg
http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l273/Kasugano/DSCN1832.jpg
http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l273/Kasugano/DSCN1833.jpg
http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l273/Kasugano/DSCN1834.jpg
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Sometimes it changes depending on what is on the screen. It is not always just collected together; as I write this it is all over the screen in more seperated segments. Is there an older video driver that isn't listed on the website I could use or is there another solution for this? Thanks a lot.

Your T40 has a classic GPU problem that these machines are known for, where graphic card starts detaching itself from the rest of the motherboard due to numerous heating/cooling cycles and/or chassis strain. Linux doesn't access the video the same way Windows does, and that's why your distro works fairly normal. However, if you kept on pushing the machine long enough into start/shutdown cycles in Linux, you'd see the same behaviour of the video segment.
Motherboard replacement, or solder re-balling/reflowing in the GPU area are your only long-term choices. Placing a couple of post-it sheets on the GPU itself will act as a band-aid.
Good luck.
Cheers,
George
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Hello again pinktoe.
If using selective startup allowed the drivers to work properly then there has to be something in that list causing you problems. You need to determine what exactly is causing the issue. I suggest trying the following.
Press the Windows+X keyboard combination.
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