Recent content by wildbunnyarts

Thank you @smorizio for taking the time to reply. It turned out to be a hard drive failure. I took it to bits, reseated and checked the board and gave it a nice clean and dust but nothing changed. I then tried a different hard drive and it is working again. I didn't think that it was the gpu...

In all my years of dealing with computers, I've never seen this particular occurrence. I switch it on and get the Toshiba logo screen, which it pauses on for maybe a little longer than usual and then I get a blue screen with columns of different coloured dark lines. Then, it switches off...