My T41 has been acting very oddly lately. Sometimes the screen just randomly goes blank but is still lit. This also sometimes happens if I turn the laptop laterally a little. Sometimes, after pushing a bunch of buttons randomly, the desktop/workspace reappear but with random colored dots everywhere or a bunch of lines. Also, everything is sometimes frozen and things act wierd..windows don't open/ new links only open in new tabs, etc.

When the random pushing of buttons doesn't work, I'm forced to 'hard' shutdown. When I turn it off after an 'episode' like this, I don't hear the hardrive click off, just the fan turning off, which is why I suspect the hard drive might be a problem. After I turn it off, if i turn it on immediately it won't boot or nothing shows up on the screen. I have to wait a min or so. The harddrive is only a few months old after the original one failed. It's an oem drive (Hitachi?).

This is happening more frequently these days. I've had this thing for more than three years now and it's def not been just sitting on a desk.

Any ideas guys?