Toshiba laptop screen outage

[Vash The Stampede]

My Toshiba laptop screen has been jumping for a while and I was able to push on the screen and make it stop, but yesterday, I turned my laptop on and it wouldn't stop jumping, and then it went completely black and won't come back on, what is the reason for this and what can I do to fix it?

 

[frozenlead]

Jumping? Could you explain that in more detail?

Have you tried hooking your notebook up to an external monitor?

 

[Vash The Stampede]

jumping, like the screen was messing up and lines were covering it to the point i couldn't see anything. Yeah, i hooked it up to an external monitor, i got the xp splash screen, but it wouldnt boot any farther, just restart from there

 

[frozenlead]

Either a virus or a video malfunction. Try taking out your hard disk and booting to a live CD of a linux distro and see if the problem continues.

 

[maaddds7]

Either a virus or a video malfunction. Try taking out your hard disk and booting to a live CD of a linux distro and see if the problem continues.

i dont understand hat you mean by linux distro what is that the reason im asking my laptop screen is doing thesame thing it just started doing that yesterday and i dont know what to do