Honestly, I hope that's not the case. Were this a desktop, it would be easy for me to replace the defective part, but since this is a laptop, I have no idea how to perform such a repair. Honestly, it would be one of the weirdest hardware problems I've ever encountered. Normally when you see a hardware problem you see definitive and obvious problems, but this is a lot more subtle. Only a few things are messing up, and even that, not so badly. I'll try updating drivers, though.