Hi There,

I have an Alienware m9700 laptop.

I recently upgraded the o/s from XP to Win 7 with no problems.

It had been running well until I launched IE 8. Almost immediately the entire went white. I then shut the machine down, restarted it and the screen was fine for a few seconds. The screen now had a 3" white stripe running vertically down the middle of the screen. Now when I reboot, the white stripe appears during the Alienware splash screen.

I'm inclined to think that this problem was not caused by IE 8, but I could be wrong....