T61 screen and system tray flicker on and off during start up

When I start up my T61, under XP Pro SP3:
The screen dimms slightly during the welcome to windows message, and three seconds later returns to normal.
Then, just before the system tray and battery life icons appear, the screen flickers off then on, and a black rectangle appears in the bottom right corner.
The black rectangle dissapears and the system tray replaces it.
Is this normal?
If not, what is wrong with my Think Pad?
After this seemingly odd behaviour, I get a message telling me that I have no wireless connection.
Then, all is good and my thinkpad suffers no other performance issues.
Please could somone give me details as to why my Think Pad boots up in this manner?

I do think you mean thinkpad, Thinkcentre is the desktop.
During your initial startup, press the blue thinkvantage button, which hopefully will take you into the Rescue and Recovery, from which select restore to factory setting.
Alternatively, burn yourself a set of recovery media from Start -> Program -> Thinkvantage -> Create Recovery Media -> Recovery disks. And use that disk to restore your laptop to factory state. <- Even if you don't use this step, it is a good idea to burn a set of recvoery disks.  
Regards,
Jin Li
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