Matt, I will try your suggestions when the problem crops up again. The computer has booted up fine the last two or three days. If it does its...
My wife is Japanese. We just bought a Sony Vaio laptop for her here in California. But she wants a Japanese-language operating system. Is there...
Thanks for the suggestion, Arie. We have four user accounts on this computer. I added a new one, but that did not help the problem. Still slow...
I got the same message about a mouse when it was going bad.
Unfortunately, it looks like the problem of the computer getting stuck on the Windows screen is a chronic one. Every few days when we boot the...
It sounds to me like an inverter problem. But it could be the LCD screen, the backlight bulb, or the motherboard. All can cause similar...
Good luck with that dark screen. That's rough. It does sound like your inverter is bad. My laptop did exactly the same thing when its...
Replacing the backlight usually requires soldering, but not replacing the inverter. And checking the video cable connection just requires...
From what you have said of the symptoms you are seeing, I'm pretty sure the image on an external monitor would be fine. But it would be nice to...
Did you try hooking the laptop up to a desktop monitor?
Just to confirm, it's not just a problem with the backlight going on and off, right? The displayed content also has problems? When I had a...
Thanks for help with problem of computer not booting up The problem was that the motherboard had gone bad. So I replaced the motherboard. The...
Thanks, Matt, for the suggestions. I looked at the Device Manager and everything was fine. I then did a clean boot, as you suggested, and it did...
Finally fixed my hardware problem with a computer that was covered in a thread on the hardware forum. Now the hardware works, but after using the...
One more question about my motherboard problem. I noticed the smell of something warm on the motherboard when I was testing it. I traced that...
I'd like to hear how this turned out.
Thanks for your comments, Rockster. I probably am at the point where I should seek expert assistance. Hard to tell what the problem is....
Oh no! I thought I had everything fixed, with my new motherboard. But after working for a while, the computer has the same problem. Black...
Local recycling facilities do indeed exist. (I live in the Silicon Valley area, and we love to do those kind of things.) I'm not sure how...
One last question before I let this thread go into archives. I've now got a defective motherboard on hand. What should I do with it? Throw it...
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