yuutomo
The Wonder Kitter
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Missoula, MT | reply to captokita
Re: VAIO no POST issue
you may want to remove ac power, battery, and then the button cell battery and let it sit for a bit then reverse order and see if you can get into the bios. |
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PeteC2
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| said by yuutomo  :you may want to remove ac power, battery, and then the button cell battery and let it sit for a bit then reverse order and see if you can get into the bios. Good suggestion. If re-setting the bios from scratch does not work, then at this stage it does sound like a motherboard issue.
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captokita
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join:2005-02-22
Calabash, NC
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Thanks for the ideas.
I'll have to find where the battery for the CMOS is so I can disconnect it. It's not easily accessible where I am with the laptop. (keyboard off, bottom covers off. I may have to pull the thing completely apart for that. (was really hoping not to have to do this, but it seems inevitable.
As for battery / power pack. Removed the battery completely. Using the stock adapter it came with. (I'm assuming, it's not a universal adapter. I'll try my universal to rule that out.
Thanks again, will post back results. |
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captokita
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join:2005-02-22
Calabash, NC
| Ok, update:
Tried universal adapter, same no post results. I've got the whole bottom of the unit off, and removed the CD drive, still can't see the CMOS battery......  Have removed basically anything and everything I can think of that would prevent it from booting, and still it will not.
Next? (still looking for the CMOS battery) I'll look for a schematic for this model, maybe that will help.... |
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captokita
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join:2005-02-22
Calabash, NC
| Update again - get this:
I basically disassembled the whole damn thing. Right down to bare components, and with each item removed, I would boot the unit, and get the same results - VAIO boot screen with nothing as soon as it comes up.
So could not find the CMOS battery on this thing. Looked and looked for wiring that would lead to one, but no luck.
Frustrated, I put everything back together again. Flipped it over, and turned it on. VAIO comes up, and GOES AWAY! It starts to boot, and fails with a "Windows could not start because" basically corrupted registry error.
So I don't know why, but it's started working again. I'll try to repair the registry and see if it will boot, but consider me still stumped...... |
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