topic Re: fx101 power on problem in PCs & Accessories

fx101 power on problem

jameslaurence — Mon, 30 Aug 2004 21:29:23 GMT

hello all,
im looking for some help with my vaio fx101please.
i have a problem where by when i press the on button the notebook doesnt come on.
i get all indicator lights coming on and then go off imidietly, the machine sounds like its gona start up but dosent.
it does this with both mains and battery.
i have checked the battery and even borrowed some one elses, and still have the same problem

can anyone give me an idea to a soloution to fix this?

if all else fails, where do i get out of warenty repairs?

thanx for your help

james

Re: fx101 power on problem

kee-lo_ — Tue, 31 Aug 2004 14:03:17 GMT

Sounds like the thing's died.
Have a look through your Thompson directory.

Re: fx101 power on problem

jameslaurence — Sat, 04 Sep 2004 18:56:50 GMT

for anyone whos interested, i changed the cmos (bios) battery in my laptop, and so far its booting all the time, so at present it seems to have fixed my problem.

the only one little problem i have now if anyone can help, when i changed the battery or while having problems i lost all the bios settings, and when i powered up it reverted to default and it apears its only seeing once of my ram moduals (512mb) and theres 2 installed.
can anyone sugest any soloutions?

Re: fx101 power on problem

robpaxton — Sat, 04 Sep 2004 19:02:35 GMT

It's probably not a BIOS setting. Have you tried removing and reseating the memory modules?

Re: fx101 power on problem

jameslaurence — Sat, 04 Sep 2004 19:08:21 GMT

thanx rob

i did that and it worked

Re: fx101 power on problem

robpaxton — Sat, 04 Sep 2004 19:10:29 GMT

Lucky guess - happy to hear you are up and running

Re: fx101 power on problem

kee-lo_ — Sat, 04 Sep 2004 19:15:42 GMT

Hey that's really good news :smileygrin:
Glad it's all fixed.

Re: fx101 power on problem

jameslaurence — Sat, 04 Sep 2004 21:09:32 GMT

it was only by talking to people at work.
i took the notebook to a few local 'service centres' who wanted £50+ to give an estimate, also tried calling sony vaio and was put off when it said on the recorded message i first got, something about out of warenty technical help will be charged at £20 a call 'please have your credit or debit card ready'
i found after warenty repairs to be very few and far between and the ones i did find were hinting at an uneconmical repair.

Re: fx101 power on problem

kee-lo_ — Sat, 04 Sep 2004 21:55:47 GMT

Thats very good. :smileygrin: