Black Screen Appear during Operating System normal usage

Hi!
I have a Compaq Presario CQ50-102LA, the problem that I have is that when I try to use the operating sytem a black screen appears(sometimes the sreen is blue or red or green)
I thought that the problem was with my Operating System, but I tried installing Ubuntu, Win Xp and Win7 and the problems persists..
I made the hard disk and memory tests from the BIOS and it was OK.
I also tried disconnecting the wireless card and the CD/DVD drive bit didn't work...
I don't know what else to do.. I'll really appreciate if you could help me!!
Thanks

Follow up on previous post..
If it says that there is no hard drive detected, it means that it cannot find any hard drive connected on the computer to install the OS to.
So first, test your Hard drive if it is detected in SetUp or BIOS, by tapping F10 on boot up. You'll have a HD test utility under diagnostic.
If it shows that "No IDE device found"
   Reseat the HD, check this website to know how to reseat your HD
    http://h20181.www2.hp.com/plmcontent/NACSC/SML/
If it shows in the test that its detectecting the HD and doing the HD test. Try different installation disk, or might need the original Recovery Disk for the notebook.
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    1618 iDVD 4.60 29 171.23 MB 668.35 MB
    1616 iMovie HD 0.90 15 41.88 MB 462.51 MB
    215 ScreenShot Plus 0.70 3 40.87 MB 633.54 MB
    214 SimpleKeys 0.70 3 39.14 MB 540.78 MB
    211 Classic Menu 0.80 3 38.34 MB 549.96 MB
    1628 Activity Monitor 4.90 8 34.01 MB 379.87 MB
    1178 QuickTime Player 0.00 7 24.70 MB 422.63 MB
    209 Finder 0.00 5 14.96 MB 393.39 MB
    217 Microsoft Database Daemon 0.00 3 10.27 MB 366.40 MB
    220 kbd_backgroundapp 0.00 3 8.81 MB 381.08 MB
    235 GrowlHelperApp 0.00 6 7.84 MB 361.86 MB
    207 SystemUIServer 0.00 4 6.76 MB 372.38 MB
    216 Stickies 0.00 2 6.13 MB 359.60 MB
    358 Preview 0.00 5 6.01 MB 357.77 MB
    360 TextEdit 0.00 3 5.72 MB 358.05 MB
    87 loginwindow 0.00 4 5.62 MB 370.95 MB
    221 TWAINBridge 0.00 3 5.55 MB 354.20 MB
    86 ATSServer 0.00 2 5.01 MB 86.32 MB
    212 Desktility 0.00 2 4.48 MB 364.63 MB
    204 Dock 0.00 3 4.40 MB 365.48 MB
    178 mds 0.00 8 4.09 MB 44.51 MB
    213 UniversalAccessApp 0.30 2 3.92 MB 350.93 MB
    218 MouseWorks Background 0.00 2 3.86 MB 350.1299
    System Events 0.00 2 3.24 MB 346.
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