I have a Gateway laptop. It does not power on completely. It starts up with the black screen with an F8 option & safe mode options. If I press enter to start my system with the windows vista program blue lines will appear on my screen, then go completely black, but the power light is still on and the fan is on. I think I may need to replace the hard drive. Can you tell me what the problem maybe?
This is either an operating system failure or hard drive failure. Start by reloading a fresh operating system (Vista) with your recovery or operating system disc. If you have any problems during or after the install, then it's the hard drive and will need to be replaced.
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