I have a Razer Blade 15’’ Advanced Model (RZ09-0421PED3-R341) and the screen simply won’t turn on. 

First, it just acts weird (occasionally) like a bunch of stripes across the screen. 

Then stripes across the whole screen like a glitch. 

Then it simply wont turn on. 

I dual-booted the laptop so I could switch between my ubuntu installation and the out-of-the-box windows installation. 

The GRUB page sometimes appears, sometimes it doesn’t i.e. screen still works, only sometimes. Most of the time doesn’t turn on at all. When it does, it’s all weird looking. 

Anyhow, since it will boot into Linux first, and the GRUB page only sometimes appears, I had to turn the computer on and off a couple of times before I could finally log into the Windows OS.

Then I connect to a second screen, and the second screen is recognized as the second screen in the display settings, and connected to the GPU driver. The laptop screen is recognized as the first, connected to Intel Iris Xe Graphics but it says it isn’t “Active”.

Is this a hardware problem or still a software problem? I will try to reset the OS using a recovery stick soon but just wanna be sure if this is not a hardware issue before I waste too much time.