> Next, when it booted up, just when the laptop is begging to boot (before
> loading the operating system), the screen displayed several vertical lines
> as showed in this pics I took:
> http://www.geocities.com/garrapeta/borrame/1.JPG,
> http://www.geocities.com/garrapeta/borrame/2.JPG.

I had a similar problem once, only with horizontal lines - it turned out to
be the video card.