N500 BIOS help/walkt​hru needed

Question

Hi all
When I switch on my laptop, I am presented with a very pale blue/pink screen with lots of faded vertical greyish lines.
After a moment the screen then turns black, with the exception of the left hand inch or so which has about 6 or 8 red/green vertical lines.
Obviously something's not right! My question is - what? The screen itself? The board? Any ideas would be welcome.
Also, during the power on it only seems to acces the HDD momentarily before stopping, it doesn't seem to be loading the OS. Would this point to a mobo failure instead of a screen failure?
Thanks in advance,
Chris
Also - there are no system beeps when I switch on.
And - the fn keys work to change the brightness on the display.
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@ chris5,
I merged your posts because they are basically dealing with the same problem - one is a continuation of the other.
Duck3 wrote:
 Never mind, you get in but are "blind" correct?
I think it would help chris5 if someone, with the same BIOS, could check and then post the key strokes to enable the boot display to be VGA.
For example, (and this will not be correct), start system > after 4 secs press F1 to enter BIOS > default is the config menu > press enter > press down 3 times to enter Display menu > default is xyz > press down 1 time > press enter etc. etc.
Basically all the keystrokes required to set the VGA as the default boot display. I don't have an 3000 N100 or N500 at hand, otherwise I'd post the steps required.
Hope you all understand the idea and hope it helps
Andy  ______________________________________
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