Green and purple screen when lifting the laptop?

Green and purple screen when lifting the laptop?

One year old Lenovo thinkpad edge E330 that has been used to program in .net and browsing. had first time problem with this laptop Wednesday 4th of march 2015, when I tilted the laptop which i had in my knee the screen turned green/ purple and was all pixalated into blurring colors. Could not see the screen except the blurred green-purple fizz and could not shut down laptop with the start button by pressing it. Pulled the battery out and restarted it on a flat surface. re installed the OS same day.

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Keep the laptop off of your lap. They are called laptops because of their size (as wide as your lap) and not because you can sit them on your on your lap for any extended time. This series of Lenovo laptops are very sensitive to the heat generated by the cpu and the graphics processor. If you look at the bottom of the laptop you will see that the cooling fan is in a location that is directly on your leg, when the laptop is on your lap, thus no air can be circulated to the cpu and gpu cooler. This can result in serious overheating and cause weird things to happen. You might want to consider removing or have someone remove the heatsink, clean it up and replace the coolant grease where applicable. Also blow the dust from the fan and the heatsink fins. Just remember that heat is the worst enemy of a computer