What is the Cause of Screen Displacement?

[TheTosh]

Hey there.
My Mac has been playing up a bit.
When im using it the screen will distort.
And when i go to restart the screen is displaced and it Kernel Panics (see pic)

What could be the issue behind this? I have formatted my Hard drive and reinstalled with snow leopard (Funny it happened few weeks after i first installed SL).

And it still does the samething, But I sure its affected by the heat of my mac somewhat. If i have SMC Fan Control on it cools it and doesn't do it as much.

Help much thanked for.

Thanks TheTosh

 

[prodigee]

Take it to the Apple Store. That looks like your graphics card has failed, should be covered by warranty. (Even though you have a pre-unibody Apple covers failed 8600m's). Assuming that is what you have..

 

[TheTosh]

Take it to the Apple Store. That looks like your graphics card has failed, should be covered by warranty. (Even though you have a pre-unibody Apple covers failed 8600m's). Assuming that is what you have..

I have.
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT:

Chipset Model: GeForce 8600M GT
Type: GPU
Bus: PCIe
PCIe Lane Width: x4
VRAM (Total): 128 MB
Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0407
Revision ID: 0x00a1
ROM Revision: 3175
Displays:

So Yes i have a 8600.

 

[J&JPolangin]

...at least you know its covered, take it in for a check...