Vertical display smearing on 2010 Macbook Air after Yosemite install

Just installed Yosemite on my husband's Late 2010 13" Macbook Air (2GB RAM/1.86 Mhz processor). Seemed to run fine at first, then we started seeing vertical lines and smears that were worse on scrolling after running the first batch of system updates. With no GPU issues on this machine to date, I decided to remove everything unnecessary and do a clean reinstall. This helped the problem significantly, but it is still occurring to some degree. My gut tells me it's a driver issue since this machine has had no issues to date, and the problem started within 20 minutes of a Yosemite load. Before I revert to Mavericks or visit the Genius bar, wanted to see if anyone else has seen this issue. Thanks in advance.

Try resetting PRAM.
Reset PRAM. http://support.apple.com/kb/PH18761?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

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Hi PlotinusVeritas,
Thanks for the quick reply
I did wonder if it was the battery but the usb mouse's left click stops working once the trackpad is touched seems kinda weird... Kind of gave up troubleshooting, guess I'll have to contact an Apple store for repair
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http://storeimages.apple.com/1867/as-images.apple.com/is/image/AppleInc/MC914_AV 7?wid=1200&hei=1200&fmt=jpeg&qlt=95&op_sharpen=0&resMode=bicub&op_usm=0.5,0.5,0, 0&iccEmbed=0&layer=comp
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panic(cpu 1 caller 0xffffff80194b8945): Kernel trap at 0xffffff80194acf91, type 13=general protection, registers:
CR0: 0x000000008001003b, CR2: 0x00000001000cb8e4, CR3: 0x000000001c0bc000, CR4: 0x0000000000000660
RAX: 0xffffff8019ac9d40, RBX: 0xffffff80250ba008, RCX: 0xffffff8024390340, RDX: 0x0000000000000080
RSP: 0xffffff8091c1bdc8, RBP: 0xffffff8091c1be10, RSI: 0x000000002f9677b0, RDI: 0xdeadbeefdeadbf07
R8: 0x0000000000000000, R9: 0x0000000000000000, R10: 0x0000000000000000, R11: 0x0000000000000000
R12: 0x0000000000000080, R13: 0xffffff80250ba008, R14: 0xdeadbeefdeadbf07, R15: 0xdeadbeefdeadbeef
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0xffffff8091c1bcc0 : 0xffffff80194acf91
0xffffff8091c1be10 : 0xffffff8019433eca
0xffffff8091c1be20 : 0xffffff80195637da
0xffffff8091c1be40 : 0xffffff8019546284
0xffffff8091c1bf70 : 0xffffff801977259b
0xffffff8091c1bfb0 : 0xffffff80194b3257
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Tell my wife that!
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