Hardware error?

Hi Guys,

I own a sony vaio laptop VGN-FZ21M which is 2 years old.

Since about a week ago it was running fine having formatted 2-3 times since i bought it but all of a sudden it stopped working. Whenever i push the one button to power it up, i get weird signs all over the screen and it crashes all the time! I get the BSOD (blue screen of death) saying there is a hardware fault and that it cannot start, yet after starting it in safe mode, i can then just restart the laptop and boot windows normally. I had a feeling it was the bios so i set off to find a way to reset it and this is what i did. I pulled apart the laptop and proceeded to find the mother board battery (or CMOS battery) and disconnected it for a good 30 minutes, then i reassembled the laptop with my fingers crossed and still with no luck. I formatted the computer with a clean partition and installed windows 7 with still no luck. I swapped out the hard drive and tried again, with again no luck. I replaced the ram with a set from a friends laptop with again no luck!

Does anyone know what the problem is or have any ideas why this is happening?

I payed about $3000 AUD for the laptop and its only 2 years old so im not looking to chuck it out just yet.

Ive attached fotos to show what the computer looks like when i power up.

Any help would be much appreciated

 

My guess is bad RAM (or graphics RAM).

Two years is the lifespan for laptops that many companies work with.
(Desktops last for three years, and servers four.)
I know, it's consumerism at its worst.

 

Hmmm, only thing is that it runs normally 50% of the time, and ive got a second laptop that is 5 years old running intel celeron and xp which has never had problems.... its a dell :S