Pavilion boot help

we have a pavilion zv5000 and upon trying to start today we get nothing except some horizontal line flash up then a screen with hundreds of white dots arranged in squares, tried a hard reset , tried to enter bios but nothing is working or changing what happens.
Please any advice?
Martin

Try re-seating the memory modules, remove and re-insert them a few times to clean the contacts.
It could be some serious hardware failure that would need to be diagnosed by a professional also.

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