ThinkPad W530: Blank Screen/Weird Colorful screen on Lid Open

Please see the picture below. This error happens randomly when I close my lid, and/or move my laptop fast from one place to the other. I get either the error screen below or a blank screen. Both the error screen below and blank screen require me to hold the power button down and reboot my W530.
Has anyone ever experienced this error? What is the cause of this issue? Does anyone know of a fix that won't void my warrantee?
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I'm having the exact same problem with my one month old W530 (from the beginning). I didn't know that the blank screen problem was associated with the horizontal colored lines problem until I found your posting. (I thought it was a Power Mangement problem.)
I've had two on-site service calls, one replaced the mother board and the other replaced the screen. Neither helped a wit. During the second service call the failure happened righ in front of the technicians. Did not trigger anything from them, though.
I am currently going through the process of having Lenovo sent me a replacement for this lemon.
If I were going to to take further steps to fix it, the next thing I would try is to replace the cable connecting the screen to the motherboard. The second service call actually intended to do that as well, but they brought the wrong cable.

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