Asus Eee PC 1000HE screen freezing and slowly fading white randomly?

Greetings,

I am typing this on my Asus 1000HE eee PC, which I've had for just over a year now and have loved. However last night the screen randomly froze and began slowly turning white, and then eventually began turning infrared sort of, and being generally weird like that. It is only a screen problem because while this happened my music kept playing, and when I eventually hit the manual power-off button the "shutting down music" (whatever that's called) still played. Now every time I turn my computer on I have about 5 minutes of normal computing before this happens, in fact it's happened a few times since I've registered to this forum and began typing this! Apparently if I hit the sleep button though and turn the screen off even for a few seconds it goes back to normal, but then fades out in a matter of minutes again each time. This trick has allowed me to at least type this, but I have several term papers due in two weeks and I don't know how easily a person could write essays with this sort of computer malfunction!!!

If possible I'd like to get some kind of diagnosis on what's going on with my little computer before I go to a shop, or better yet I'd rather not have to go to a shop at all because I am in the poor-university-student income bracket and can't really afford to get this thing fixed very easily at all!

Does anybody have any idea what might be wrong or how to fix it?

Thank you!

 

Might be the graphics card dying . Is it an integrated one or seperate ?

My Clevo M980NU had almost the same thing, and it was the graphic card that was faulty.

 

Did you ever find out what was wrong with your computer? Mine is doing the same and I have no idea what to do :/ thank you!

 

I sadly did not! Luckily I was given a new computer for Christmas though so I've been using that since. Sorry man! If you do figure it out though feel free to post about it in this thread so I'll get an update! Good luck, sir.