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Pete L
Reallystruggling here posting in Safe Mode. I have a four year old
Sony Vaio VGN-FE38GP laptop. A couple of days ago the screen went
black suddenly and an Ctrl-Alt-Del would not work. I did a re-boot by
just holding down the on/off button. On re-boot WinXP Pro started to
load but on screen were parallel vertical bands of what looks like
interference. They were greenish colour. Loading stopped after the
welcome screen and it just went black with the greenish bands down the
screen. I then manged to re-load in Safe Mode. I checked for any
hardware messages in system info and there was nothing. I then tried a
system restore to a few days ago but it made no difference. I got a
man in to check it over. He undid the machine and checked all the
connections to the screen. He had a good look for anything likely and
he also checked my startup to see if there were any virus like things
there. He was on the point of giving up when everything came back to
normal on re-boot and he shot out the door quickly! After an hour the
same problem returned. Does anybody here have an ida what is going on?
It seems like a hardware problem but I really do not know what to do
next. I can only do this in safe mode and am using Firefox. This
screen is normal but I can see the green banding at the top. Help
appreciated!
Sony Vaio VGN-FE38GP laptop. A couple of days ago the screen went
black suddenly and an Ctrl-Alt-Del would not work. I did a re-boot by
just holding down the on/off button. On re-boot WinXP Pro started to
load but on screen were parallel vertical bands of what looks like
interference. They were greenish colour. Loading stopped after the
welcome screen and it just went black with the greenish bands down the
screen. I then manged to re-load in Safe Mode. I checked for any
hardware messages in system info and there was nothing. I then tried a
system restore to a few days ago but it made no difference. I got a
man in to check it over. He undid the machine and checked all the
connections to the screen. He had a good look for anything likely and
he also checked my startup to see if there were any virus like things
there. He was on the point of giving up when everything came back to
normal on re-boot and he shot out the door quickly! After an hour the
same problem returned. Does anybody here have an ida what is going on?
It seems like a hardware problem but I really do not know what to do
next. I can only do this in safe mode and am using Firefox. This
screen is normal but I can see the green banding at the top. Help
appreciated!