MY friend just ran out of warranty of her toshiba satellite 17" widescreen laptop & she finds that her LCD display is having problems showing bands, it started with just 1 band but now in past 15 days they are 3. Toshiba service centre quoted INR 42000/- (India) replacing the LCD screen........................I feel thats crazy, better to buy new laptop in that amount.

This is how these bands look like & they show up right from the 1st boot screen, while loading XP & then thereafter.
http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/2...otbandstg0.jpg

Surprisingly they dont show when I took a screenshot & posted.
http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/8...enshot1zq6.jpg

So the 1st image you see is actually a simulated image to show you the problem.

What can I do to troubleshoot this, is it really the LCD problem? Do they surely need to replace that? The laptop uses ATI mobility Radeon 9000 IGP graphic card, I updated the driver & also tried to use external monitor, that works fine & as an extended desktop, I tried using that external monitor as "primary" desktop but could not do that, not sure if that tells much about the problem.

Need help...........Thanks