X200 screen "melting" when booting up

My X200 (~1 year old) with W7 64x. The screen started to act up a bit and gave me terrible panic. Last week, when waking up from sleep, the screen appeared "melting"-- not only flickering but also looked like the pixels were "dripping". It went back to normal after one forced shutdown and reboot. This morning, when I tried to boot up, the screen appeared the same way, flickering severely, "melty", and then turned black. When I moved the mouse, the pixels seemed to react to it by changing the patterns of flickering and the overall color looked pixelated as if in safe mode. The software itself seemed to boot up normally, just not showing right. Tried forced shutdown three times but still booted up "melty". I came home with heart sunk to my stomach, tried to boot again and it was normal! Now I can't even send it back to Lenovo because they may not be able to reproduce the problems and just send it back. Other threads on this board reported vertical bands or flickering horizontally at the edges of windows. Mine flickered in all directions with no particular patterns.
I did notice this happened after I carried the laptop to other location. Is it a loose connection problem (hard ware) or a upgrade/downgrade of driver will take care of this problem? HELP!
Thanks!

if it is occurring in the bios menu, then the most likely culprit is the LCD or GPU or some other parts of the motherboard. But most likely it is the LCD.
This mean you would have to send the laptop into the depot for a repair.
Regards,
Jin Li
May this year, be the year of 'DO'!
I am a volunteer, and not a paid staff of Lenovo or Microsoft

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