White Stripe on Hewlett Packard LCD Monitor (At Least It's Not BSOD)

I have a HP DV8000 laptop (8040us specifically I believe) with a 17" screen. About a month ago I took it out of the laptop case and started it up, I noticed a White stripe about 1 inch wide about 2 inches from the right side of the screen which ran vertically the entire length of the monitor. In this white stripe nothing is displayed, otherwise performance is unhindered. I restarted the computer and noticed that as the WindowsXP load screen processes the bars at the bottom of the screen go from alternating white blocks to a solid white bar. When the blocks are filing in in the white bar section colored lines red, blue and green (surprise) appear vertically the entire height of the screen, and these lines are probably 1 pixel wide. Once windows opens however the stripe is entirely White again.

I removed the cover around the screen to see if any wires were obviously loose. None were and unplugging and replugging the inverter in had no effect, although I did notice one of the monitor hinges had been broken at some point. Past this I didn't trust myself to take the keyboard off to examine further.

Screen Images on an auxiliary montior (both VGA and S-Video) Appear normal. Do any of you have insight as to whether this is a software (I updated video drivers), hardware (Sorry it's broke get a new one), or connection (take it to someone who isn't scared of a soldering iron and flexible cables) issue? Right now I can use the computer as I just drag windows into the unaffected part of the (thank god its widescreen!) monitor. But it is rather annoying, and I had never heard of a partial failure of a monitor. Thanks for any help!

-T