These laptops are built to fail? video included!

A few days ago my lenovo started video display distorted... then it would BSoD and when I rebooted, it said to be fine for some time then to do it again... I did twice before when I rebooted it that no video wouldn't gone out at all, even not on a monitor outside, of course, I have more fat , I swear to you that nothing ever breaks while its IN warentee. I have a nice extensvie computer bottom repair, so I decided to conduct an autopsy... my discoveries where alittle annoying. It seems the heat sink for the graphics card on this computer is simply glued on... There is no screws or anything to hold it... Needless to say that my radiator was not in touch with my graphics processor, because God knows how long... im student living off the residuals from the software I write in my spare time and have not the $400 to replace the motherboard, nor can I really afford to make much more money out of my main development... computer I didn't mind not to shell out the extra money to buy a lenovo cuz I thought that I was getting quality, but this is rediculious.

in any case here is a vid from youtube of the problem

http://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=JtAA-RhhrxI

What should I do now?

try to put some physical pressure on the ATI graphics card and then start the laptop you see properly on the screen?

What you describe sounds like the ATI GPU has a problem, I've seen some example of W500 and T500 who had this problem (where either you get no display on the screen, or the distorted display, etc.).

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