Good morning /g/. Troubleshooting a computer for family and looking

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Good morning /g/. Troubleshooting a computer for family and looking for advice/confirmation of my belief of what's wrong.

Background on the computer:
>given to family member by their work site's tech office for use in a specialized 'augmented rality sandbox' thing.
>has to meet certain specifications according to the brains over at UC Davis
>Davis recommends the following:
I5 or I7 clocked at least aroud 3GHz
GTX 1060 or better
Current release of 64-bit version of Linux Mint with Mate desktop
Vendor supplied graphics drivers
20gb hard drive
and 2gb ram minimum.
>seems simple enough.
>finally get the desktop this morning.
>see pic related


Well.. this is going to be interesting. And I will share it all with you as it unfolds.

Anyway, the main issue is, about 7 months ago there was a lightning storm that caused a power surge, and prior to that the computer worked, they were simply working out the kinks in the hardware of the sandbox... after that the computer wouldn't boot properly and would black screen, or sometimes get stuck on the mint leaf. And the Tech department has so far not even bothered to work on the computer.. so it got handed off to me.

>Request:
Get it to boot up properly.

>my initial diagnosis:
Hard drive's probably broke.