Computer Help

[Gr8pape]

I am a pretty computer savvy guy but I sure don't claim to know everything, and I also know when to ask for help, and I  need some help.

I am about to go back to school for my airframe and powerplant license and a friend of mie gave me his old Sony Vaio laptop it powers up but that is it. No bios screen, no home screen,  no XP sceen nothing, also no HD sound revving up.

Any clues?

Sony Vaio
Model PCG-7A2L
has 2 Model #'s VGN-FS620W

Any help is greatly appreciated tips on how to figure out what is wrong with it, thanks.

[SIK1]

Problem #1, it's a Sony. Why did your friend give this to you? Was he having trouble with it, and was getting a new one?

From what you have said my first guess would be power supply.

Does it beep. or make any other sounds?

Does it have any known problems? When you say it powers up what exactly is powering up?

[Gr8pape]

Like I said I am not completely ignorant on these things, but it powers up no beep three light on the top by the power switch, 2 lights on the front charge,power.

It was free so not like I am complaining, it was given to him y his brother in-law he said it needed work but he never got around to it, so he gave it to me.

[The Fugitive]

First thing I would do is open it up and clean it out. Then unplug and re-plug each and every plug , board and ribbon I could get to. Fire it back off and see what happens.

[SPKmes]

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[68ZooM]

Could be the screen, see if theres a vga plugin you can hook a external monitor up to, see if that helps

[Ruler2]

Could be the screen, see if theres a vga plugin you can hook a external monitor up to, see if that helps

That's exactly what I was thinking.

[WMLute]

No post beep is your first clue.

Try removing the Ram and seeing if you get a post beep.
(or even remove one stick of Ram, try to boot, then try the other stick)

If that doesn't do the trick try changing the CMOS battery and see if you get a post beep.

If that doesn't work it could be the Mobo, CPU, Power Supply, or Video card.

Only way to check is to swap 'em out with another one that you know works.

[AirFlyer]

No post beep is your first clue.

Try removing the Ram and seeing if you get a post beep.
(or even remove one stick of Ram, try to boot, then try the other stick)

If that doesn't do the trick try changing the CMOS battery and see if you get a post beep.

If that doesn't work it could be the Mobo, CPU, Power Supply, or Video card.

Only way to check is to swap 'em out with another one that you know works.

Being a laptop a lot of this becomes difficult to impossible as a consumer user.

IMO I would try 68Zooms, The Fugitives, then WMLutes suggestions in that order.

[froger]

sry bro,
   best advise i can give is use it for target practice and run as fast as you can down
to the apple store and get you a mac book pro.
   trouble free, never a virus and it does all the stuff a pc will do but better.

i know....not much help but thats all i got for ya 


froger

[Max]

Sounds just like a problem I had on my desktop once...solved it by resetting CMOS.

Good luck

[Gr8pape]

I have tried all of those little tricks already, with the exception of puling the battery for the CMOS, I can't get the motherboard out to get to the battery. Thanks for all the suggestions though.

[gpwurzel]

This may be the daftest question I've asked (in a while anyway), but does it actually have an OS installed?


Wurzel

[Gr8pape]

This may be the daftest question I've asked (in a while anyway), but does it actually have an OS installed?


Wurzel

yes, but even without a OS it should still post, and I can't even get that.

[68ZooM]

its a video problem (display) you might have to open it up, the video card is most likely bad, you should of been able to hook up a external monitor and seen something if the video card was worlking.