Question : Problem: My Lenovo T61p Thinkpad screen constantly flickers on and off. Is it a hardware problem or a driver issue?

Recenlty my Lenovo T61p Thinkpad has developed a very bad screen issue. The Screen constantly flickers on and off. I can't tell if this is a hardware issue or a software issue. How can I tell?

I have not done anything to the drivers. I have been using the stock Lenovo drivers for the NVidia Quadro FX 570m for months and then this happened.

Please help!

Answer : Problem: My Lenovo T61p Thinkpad screen constantly flickers on and off. Is it a hardware problem or a driver issue?

Download the Knoppix Live CD http://www.knoppix.org/

Make the CD and boot from it.  If the problems still occur it's a hardware problem.  If they don't it's probably a software problem.