Hard drive or graphics?

[ennogs]

A friend of my mothers has given me a laptop to look at. It switches on but I cannot even get into the bios due to the screen. Would you say it is hard drive issue or a graphics issue?

The screen shows a thick black line in the middle and on either side of the thick black line are very thin lines in different colours.

Apologies for poor picture. I only had an old webcam to take the shot.

PC world kindly told my mothers friend she just needs to reinstall the OS with the discs that came with the laptop lol. Out of curtesy i did put the recovery disc in. Naturally it didn't work due to me being unable to see anything on the screen.

 

[ennogs]

Thanks for the replies. I just plugged my monitor into the side of the laptop. On the laptop I still get the same screen and on my monitor I get a message saying no signal input.

I don't really want to start opening the case as it is still under warrenty.

So would you now say it is the graphics at fault?

 

[ennogs]

Thanks