I have happily owned my TR3A for almost exactly 2 years to the day.  After installing programs on it for 2 years I decided to reinstall from scratch yesterday, but afterwards, I realized that my LCD screen is messed up.

It looks like now there is a row and column that is the same color (light blue) across the display and is on no matter what.  I don’t know if it has anything to do with the reinstall I did, but I’m very upset.  It looks like maybe an entire row and an entire column is stuck on the same color, but even worse is that the row flickers.  I tried booting in VGA mode and its still like that, and I can even see when XP boots up that there is a dark line where the problem occurs.

Is it safe to assume that this thing is permanently disfigured?  I have babied this thing for 2 years and am extremely disappointed that this has happened.  Is there anything I can possibly do, or is it some microscopic transistor that has blown?