Big Problem with Laptop

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  1. Posts : 90
    windows 7 premium 64 bit
       #11

    probably some kind of discofrukuration, i had to pull the battery out of mine also, one of my memory modules died, the screen had blue lines in it and all sorts of mun go, glad you got it working...
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  2. Posts : 120
    Windows 7 64bit
    Thread Starter
       #12

    False alarm it has stopped working again. I cant Believe it. It looked so promising

    Whilst it was going through its recovery process with the recovery disk the screen was flickering a bit here and there. Untill those flickers turned into periods of darkness.

    It did a software reinstall off recovery disk and at the end the screen was almost black but when I looked closely u could see the outline of the software completed dialog box inside.

    I think I then tried to shut it down but just ended up pulling the plug. After hat I tried to restart it but it's dead like before.

    Any ideas. Should I throw it in the bin?

    Thanks
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  3. Posts : 90
    windows 7 premium 64 bit
       #13

    its got to be the memory...

    funny for you have problems with the screen being to dark i just got my dell back having the same problem, they replaced the motherboard

    pull the battery again and if you have more the one memory module check them by putting them in and starting one by one
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  4. Posts : 69
    Win 7 64 bit
       #14

    Did you have the power cord plugged-in (to prevent interruptions by an exhausted battery) while in recovery mode?

    Paul
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  5. Posts : 120
    Windows 7 64bit
    Thread Starter
       #15

    Power was plugged in. Appeared to finish restore. Then it wanted to do software restore. Was doing that started flickering then went black.
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  6. Posts : 69
    Win 7 64 bit
       #16

    Repeat pulling off the battery, and reboot.

    Is the dvd - Sony's recovery disk, or is it one you made when Viao was new?
    Is reinstalling XP a possibility?

    The windows dvd can serve as a boot disk, have you tried this route?

    Paul
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  7. Posts : 120
    Windows 7 64bit
    Thread Starter
       #17

    Howdy

    This is what happens. Laptop connected to mains power-no life. I then disconnect battery and then click it back in again.

    Laptop starts, starts recovery process (Vaio recovery disk in drive). All seems to progress well for a little while.

    Next screen starts flickering randomly. Eventually screen goes black. No response

    Any Ideas

    Thanks
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  8. Posts : 11,269
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit
       #18

    Sounds like your BIOS may be corrupted, although it could be a memory issue, as well. Based on what you have done, my bet is the BIOS. Do the following:

    1. Shut down and turn off the computer.
    2. Unplug the computer from the wall or surge protector then remove the battery.
    3. Hold down the power button for 30 seconds to clear the software connections between the BIOS and hardware and clear any corruption in the temporary memory.
    4. Plug the battery back into the laptop and then plug the computer back into the wall.
    5. Turn it on to reinitialize the software connections between the BIOS and hardware
    6. Go into your BIOS and load default settings to clear the CMOS memory.
    7. Save Settings and exit the BIOS.
    8. repeat steps 1-5 to reinitialize the now reset BIOS with hardware.

    Let us know if this does the trick for allowing you to run your recovery.

    Edit: If the above does not work, I think the issue is with your CMOS battery. An 8 year old CMOS battery is right on the edge of their lifespan. If the CMOS battery is dying, you will see many boot issues due to the memory containing the BIOS becoming easily corrupted.

    As I said before, this sounds like it may be a memory issue, but the memory issue that seems most likely is the CMOS memory.
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  9. Posts : 90
    windows 7 premium 64 bit
       #19

    same problem i had it was one of the memory sticks, how much memory do you have
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  10. Posts : 2,963
    Windows 7 Professional SP1 64-bit
       #20

    A corrupted BIOS sounds likely. Another possiblility, and what happened to my brothers laptop (also a sony, 8-10 years old) that displayed similar symptoms, was a failing motherboard.
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