Satellite Pro M10 displays the characters currupt at startup

I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro M10 that collapsed. When the system boots, the Toshiba logo seems to have a few points here and there. When displaying messages on the screen during startup, the characters seem corropted. For example, the message "Insert system disk", I and T of the insertion of the word seems to be half upper ASCII characters. The system S is the "less than or equal to sign." and the k of the scratch disk is {.} I already did the following:

-tried to start with one of my two memory card and I tried the two memory cards.
-swapped my memory card.
-reloaded windows and Linux

I have dropped it once but worked OK for a month after I dropped it. I deleted the operating system, but now seems to have problems to load a CD operatig system (CD works OK). Anyone have an idea what is wrong?

Thank you
Peter Loo

Hello

You suggested that the cell phone dropped twice.
Well, you can try to connect the external monitor to the laptop to see if it s a screen failure or malfunction of the graphics card.

You have problems with the installation of the OS? Maybe there's something wrong with the disk and the HARD disk. But maybe only loses connection is responsible for the problems. Check the pins.

It is possible that the screen and other devices was damage due to falling down.

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