Troubleshooting help

[TeaAitchSea420]

My mums asked me to fix her old laptop, it’s a Sony vaio model pcg 7131M, but I’m not too sure what’s actually wrong, the screen has weird lines on it but only on the vaio screen not on the boot screen part. and it says I need to either start windows normally or repair , when I click repair it tried to repair the disk but it must of failed because I went away and come back it turned off I turned it back on to get the same screen. My question is should I replace the hard drive or motherboard? Neither is going to be expensive jus want to know where to start. 

[George Vella]

Before you replace anything check if the hard drive is clicking. About the weird lines on the screen, it may be that the screen is slightly damaged or that the graphics card (if it has another one apart from the igpu) is damaged.

[LogicalDrm]

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[TeaAitchSea420]

On 12/20/2020 at 6:44 PM, George Vella said:

Before you replace anything check if the hard drive is clicking. About the weird lines on the screen, it may be that the screen is slightly damaged or that the graphics card (if it has another one apart from the igpu) is damaged.

What do you mean by clicking ?

[TeaAitchSea420]

Would it be possible to get an ssd with windows 10 pre installed on it on an older machine?

[George Vella]

On 12/23/2020 at 11:11 PM, TeaAitchSea420 said:

What do you mean by clicking ?

Sorry late, but if you listen to a hdd closley and hear slight clicking, it may be time to retire the drive