I have a friend that asked me to fix his Pavilion A6500. It was booting to the blue screen of death. I ran Diagnostics and found that the Ram was bad and had an error with the Hard drive. I went and bought new ram and already had a new hard drive. Installed the Ram but the computer now was displaying Red Vertical lines on the monitor. I attached the monitor back to my other computer and it displayed fine, so I knew that it was not the monitor. I then installed the new hard drive. Put in the Restore disk and it started to install until the vertical Red lines displayed again. It freezes and will not install. I have never seen this before with any other system. Anyone have any ideas. My only thought with trouble shooting is that maybe it might be the mother board. If anyone has any ideas or has had the same problem I would really appreciate the assistance.
Submitted by Robert.