Posting from roommate's computer

The LCD display of my computer is fried.

Before anyone says anything, I will explain. Earlier this evening, I put in my recovery OS disc to reformat the hard drive; resetting it to factory settings. I backed up all my stuff on my external before I did so - I was expecting to do this on Saturday but I never got around to it.

The reformat was a complete success, and it was really fast, too. I had a fresh computer with nothing but Vista on it. I started installing iTunes and all my other essential programs on it, and the Windows Update was going on in the background.

Around two hours ago, I left to pick up my parents from the airport. They had spent the last week and a half in Alaska, on a cruise. I came back about half an hour ago to a shut-down computer, which I figured was the result of the installation of things forcing a restart.

I turned it on, and there were strange vertical lines across the display while the Everex bootup and then the Windows bootup started. Then the screen went white, then faded to black with multicolored vertical lines down the screen. And when I say faded, I mean the kind of slow from one point then outward faded when an LCD loses power.

That should have NOTHING to do with reformatting the hard drive. It won't even go to the bootup screen anymore (that I can tell); the LCD is fried. On a notebook, I don't think that's something that can be replaced. I may need to buy a new computer sooner than I planned - I was thinking of getting one in October, when I'll have an extra paycheck.


EDIT: Gen (or anyone else), the two I'm looking at right now are these:

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