VAIO Laptop Starts - Screen Doesn't Seem To Power Flash
Apr 11, 2005
My Sony VAIO starts. It's plugged in normally. The power lights flash, it checks the CD-RW drive, and then remains on with the main power light on and the fan on, but the screen remains black and nothing else happens. Windows XP doesn't load. No Sony logo, no "Operating system not found," nothing. It's like it's had a lobotomy.I haven't installed anything new, and the notebook has just been sitting around unplugged for a few days. The last thing I used it for was to burn a CD with Windows Media Player. The only change I can think of is that my USB tablet isn't plugged in.
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Jun 12, 2010
While running about a week ago, the monitor simply quit displaying anything. Now, when I boot up the laptop, it shows the BOIS icons and the Windows XP splash screen, but when it should show the logon screen (I have two user accounts on the box) the monitor goes blank. I know the laptop is still running because after a couple of minutes the screen saver music starts to play, so it must be a monitor-specific issue.I've gone into setup and reset the boot sequence to no effect, took out the battery and rebooted to no effect and now am at the end of my limited hardware diagnostic abilities.
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Aug 12, 2010
my laptop screen is broken and i added a monitor to startup on , only problem is it loads ok in safe mode and only goes to loading in normal mode and slows down cosiderably
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Feb 9, 2009
I have a problem with my laptop & it is really starting to do my head in. I got my vaio about 2 years ago, it was second hand, so came with no CDs. nIt has been running fine with no problems until this morning.It is constantly restarting, with a blue screen that flashes up momentarily.I saw something that someone mentioned about it being to do with the wireless, so I've switched that off, and it has stopped restarting. As soon as I switch it back on though, it goes back in to constantly restarting.I can't even seem to get into the menu to start with safe mode. I've tried to restore the system to when it was working fine, but this hasn't helped.
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Oct 15, 2010
My son has a Sony VAIO laptop running Windows XP SP3 which originally had Windows/NT on it. There are several issues with this machine including how it slows down to a crawl and kills Firefox so that it must be rebooted. I want to know this: there are several folders in the C:WINDOWS directory as follows
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Jun 30, 2008
The Vaio is about 3/4 years old now, and I just did a reinstallation of Windows XP to clean things up a bit. Before the reinstall, I managed to track down this page on the Sony Asia website (http://www.sony-asia.com/support/dow...subpage=detail), and downloaded all of the listed drivers onto a memory stick. Having formatted the disk and installed Windows, I installed the drivers in the order listed on the website. They all worked perfectly, except for the Realtek audio driver.No sound was played by the computer, and when viewing the sound preferences under the Control Panel, I was informed that there is No Audio Device.
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Oct 27, 2009
I have a Sony Vio model PCG-3E2L. I tried installing xp on my sony computer that had vista on it. It continually blue screened during the very beginning of the install process. So, I decided to remove vista. I could not get vista to uninstall so I finally ran an older bootable windows like 98 or me which got me to dos. In dos I deleted and reset partitions. I did not format as format was not on the disk I used. Now, with a fresh hard drive I figured that xp would install but it won't. The computer boots by cd but again it continually blue screens at the beginning of the install process b/f it asks any questions but after loading drivers.
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Jun 4, 2008
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Oct 7, 2008
My laptop with windows xp software starts normally with the desktop and icons appearing on the screen. However, no programs will start and after about eight or nine clicks with the mouse the laptop emits a 'BEEP' sound and from then on it doesnt do anything at all, even the cursor dissapears.
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Jan 5, 2008
I'm curious. Is it possible to take my current copy of XP that came with my computer, uninstall it / remove it onto a flash drive / cd (even transfer it to my laptop) and then use it on a new computer that I'm going to get? They are charging $80-100 for a copy of XP and this could significantly reduce my price. I would also need to know how to install it on this new computer if this is possible, which is unlikely.
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Aug 27, 2006
My laptop used to shut itself down after 15 minutes and go into hibernation. Now it doesn't.I went to the control panel under power schemes and hibernation is enabled after 30 minutes, but the system keeps powering itself up.
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Apr 10, 2006
I seem to be having problems as of late with my computer. for the past 10-15 days when I startup my computer sometimes Windows will load and other times it won't. I don't even get the privledge of the blue screen of death, but rather then brown green screen saying Windows failed to start. Usually it takes 3-4 tries before Windows successfully loads, but it seems to be getting progressively worse. I haven't installed any new software or modifiied any configuration details within the last 30days. I even tried a system restore point of about a month ago and I continue to have this problem.
I threw in my XP cd for a re-install but it says my version of windows is newer then the one on the cd, and after thinking about it, if this is a serious problem, having to re-install windows, all of my drivers for my 3rd party hardware and then update everything might not be worth the effort if I can just get a new computer. I have been pondering for a while of purchasing a mac for my next round of computer purchases so if it comes down to that, hardware and software costs from my current system are not a major issue. So is my computer just slowly dying like a used car, or what might be the problem?
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Nov 13, 2007
I was unable to turn my Toshiba laptop on this morning. It was working fine last night when I logged off. The power and battery lights are on and I've checked all connections but still no luck.
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Mar 25, 2007
when I press the power button (and I've tried turning it on off of the battery, battery and outlet power, and just the outlet power), the light turns on, I can hear the regular whirring, but then the power button starts to flash, as if it's in standby mode? I've tried pushing a few buttons on the keyboard, tried pushing the escape button, tried pressing even the wireless LAN button that's at the top... nothing. When I press the power button, nothing happens unless I hold it down for five seconds, then it just turns itself off again.
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Oct 15, 2007
I have recently deleted my XP partition and attempted reinstalling XP due to degrading performance. Yes I took that way out. While installing, or often before, the power randomly cuts off with no warning at random places. Last time I did this I just had to keep trying all night until one time it worked long enough to install.
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Oct 6, 2005
my laptop will not boot without being plugged into the wall
here is what happens.
Booting from battery: loads fine up to windows xp loading screen then freezes..
booting plugged into wall: Goes absolutely fine
also the laptop will run off the battery AFTER being booted up with the wall socket.
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Aug 29, 2007
I've changed the settings under power management so when i press the power button or close the lid the laptop should hibernate. When i do either of these the screen just stays on preparing to hibernate.really annoying cos i have then have to restart my laptop.
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Oct 18, 2006
My dads pc was fine then all of the sudden it just restarted.And it came up to the options:restart in safe mode estart in safemode with networking estart in safe mode with networking Last known working config Normal But when he tries any of them.. None of them work The windows loading screen will come up flash a blue screen super fast (cannot read it no matter how hard i try) then go back to boot option screen.
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Aug 13, 2008
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Jul 17, 2010
Hi the other day i tried to turn on my computer but it never reached the log in page, which meant I could not use the computer as I normally have to type in my password to go to my desktop screen. I don't know what to do. By the way this is not that laptop. What it does is, it starts up normally where it goes to the bit where is goes windows xp and then under there is a bar with a small bar sliding inside it, but then instead of going to the blue log in page it just becomes blank and restarts. Please help my currently I have to use this not so good laptop and I just can't live without the other laptop.
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Mar 19, 2005
One week ago, the virus W32.Skybot.Worm infected my computes, so I cleaned it and Norton send mis archive to Quarantine. When I star my computer, the system say me it can be loaded the archive mpdat.exe. Some friends told me that I need to restart the system, but I don�t like to do it. Let it be another way to resolve this problem. Also I like to know what is the funtion of this archive.
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May 25, 2010
i have a laptop from acer that does not show the desktop items i wanted to no how can i get them back on there without deleting everything.
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Apr 29, 2007
I am planing to reformat my laptop and I am going to partition it so that I have one maybe 5 GB windows partition and another partition for everything else. When I say everything else I mean Program files, documents and settings, everything not in the windows folder basically. I want to do this so that if I were to defragment the windows for faster booting it wouldn't take too long. Also if i were to reformat then all i have to do is reinstall windows on this partition without loosing anything. Anyways so I figured in order for me to do that i would have to mount Program files and Documents And Settings from my 2nd partition to the folder c:program files and c:documents and settings.I would have to do this before i see any gui of windows I suppose. (Not sure if the welcome screen looks at logins based in documents and settings or not) but either way i would need it to be mounted and ready for use by windows.
So how would i execute a script before windows starts? Also how do i use mountvol to do this (no matter what parameters i try nothing happends(doesn't even give me an error just gives me the "help" display))I for some reason cannot mount a folder to another folder on another drive but i'm thinking i can use the subst utility to mount a folder to a drive and then use diskpart to mount that drive to a folder but i don't want to use diskpart so much because it needs me create a separate script file for me to run it with a script, so i want to use mountvol which supposedly does the same (according to microsofts website)
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Mar 30, 2008
I have windows XP I constanly have problems trying to download anything; 1st a little box will flash on the screen ;It flashes so fast I cant read it; Then about 5 minutes later the download will appear; But if I try to download anything large the computer will say downloading but then after a long time a screen appears and says time for this download has expired;??? Now I am running a registry cleaner and evryday it finds at least 50 errors. I am old and try to understand but I am having no luck. On the windows clean up tool there are about 50 items and some one told me there should only be 1 item that is running in that box.
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May 17, 2007
I have a friend who is using windows xp.When they boot the computer up.They encounter a black screen with some wording.He tells me that the wording is to do with ms dos.Then the screen goes black,with just the cusor showing in the top hand left corner.
I have an idea of what the problem is,and think that someone has gone into his settings and asked the machine to boot up in dos.
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Nov 4, 2008
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I currently installed XP Professional on my computer. Now everytime i boot my computer up it comes up in system bios. It tells me "Please select the operating system to start. So I choose XP Professional, then instead of coming up in the normal windows screen I have this little start up screen in the middle of the monitor. The color is all jacked up and so is the images.
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