Vertical gray lines

MacBookPro 2007 (3.1) having grey lines going across my screen. See below:
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b188/ccbchunks/IMG_2729.jpg
Anyone have any suggestions?
B

It looks like you have a Mac with the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 M GT graphics chip, so you might have this problem:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2377
If you have access to an Apple Store, there is a special test they can run for this. The good news is that if this is your problem, Apple will fix it for free.
Good luck!

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