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vaio-user

First of all I am a complete non tekkie.

Secondly, woke up this morning (Sunday) and switched on the laptop (VGN-S2VP bought last Xmas). Worked fine last night. Suddenly this morning - shock, horror. The screen has gone most peculiar. I can enter into the system. But everything is faded out and a sickly shade of grey. I can hardly see the icons etc. I have also tried to do a bak up of my files on a CD - very difficult to do with this screen display but I've managed to do some stages before it tells me it's unable to finish and the new disk may not be usable. Can anyone make any suggestions as to what has happened? I'm trying to stay calm ...:smileycry:

vaio-user

Apologies for the repeat posting. I just went into view my posting and for some reason I seem to have replicated it. Didn't mean to do this at all.

kee-lo_

No problem.

If you have a monitor somewhere hook it up to that, or a TV.
Then try and do your backups
Then arrange a pickup, as it sounds like your inverter is dying

vaio-user

Thanks so much for you answer Kee-Lo! Next question I have two TVs. How do I actually hook it up to the TV? (I'm really not a tekkie ...) Otherwise I have a five year old iBook. And what is the inverter? Sounds baaaad I do appreciate your time and help.

kee-lo_

You need a camcorder cable, one end with 3.5mm jack 3 poles to 3 phonos.

The inverter is the device which converts the code to an image

vaio-user

Thanks again for your response! Would the inverter affect the writing to cd? I tried to do it, looking at the dimmed screen but it kept telling me it couldn't finish and that (two) disks which were new might now be unusuable. Does the inverter also affect the CD drive?

kee-lo_

No, it doesn't affect CD writing

vaio-user

So do you have any idea what's stopping it writing to the CD? I can send emails if you peer at the screen hard enough. So that's all working. It's just come all so suddenly. Appreciate your response. PS just noticed a typo in the heading. It's actually a VGN-S2XP.

kee-lo_

That's quite a new machine.

Are you using the Windows CD writing program or drag n drop?

vaio-user

Yes, I've only had it since last December which is why I might sound slightly peeved :smileythinking: It was a real shock, since I was working well into the night before and had no inkling that something was wrong, to wake up the next morning, switch it on and it was a ghost of the machine it was the night before! Actually when I played a dvd laser lens cleaner in the the drive, the test movie looked like it was all a negative. Is it possible I changed the settings by mistake and all it needs is a little tweak? I'm ever hopeful ... I've been using the windows writer. I'm really bemused by all this but thanks for your many answers. I do appreciate your help. What do you think? Do you think it is the inverter?