Red Screen and Red fringing on Satellite X205

I have a 2 yr old, 17" Toshiba Satellite X 205 that has begun having problems with red fringing and a red screen on boot up. The screen also goes red when my slide show runs...leaving the slide show running but the screen background will be red (sort of bordering the pictures).

It appears that things, that should be black are now a bright red. The red screen goes away once the password display comes up.

I can still see email without problem but websites and some picture viewing has mild to severe red fringing. This has been going on for a few months and in my slim margin of computer knowledge, I feel that it is either the integrated motherboard/graphics card or the screen. Neither being a worthwhile fix.

Anyone else have experience or knowledge of this problem or have any ideas?

Laptop runs cool and I've experienced no other problems with it. I've started looking for another laptop but really hate to have to do that.

Thank for any help or comments.

Shirley

 

You can try Fresh install or take it to ur nearest toshiba center if this can help you?

 

I guess that you are saying to reformat? I've never done this before. I have all my photos saved to an external drive but not sure how to save email and documents, etc. I assume that everything will be gone with a reformat?
Any sites telling me how to do this?

I had ruled out taking it in for repair as I felt that would be too costly for a 2 year old system.

Thanks