When i press the power button, nothing shows up

[Guest]

My computer SONY Vaio PCV-RS420 (2 years old) has been acting strange lately,
it keeps restarting. Someone here told me i should just disable automatic
restart during error and i did. Errors and restarts took place frequently (as
many as 8 in a 20 minute span). I finally decided to reinstall windows,
reformatting the drive along with it. While i was installing windows, errors
still took place.

My CPU has a powersurge/power maintenance(uninterrupted power supply).. so i
dont think it is a low power problem. I have also tried switching the RAM
and the same thing happens. Yesterday i was updating BIOS on my computer and
an error took place right in the middle of it.

After that, i pressed the ON/POWER button to turn it back on and nothing
showed up on my screen. The light on my monitor is orange instead of
yellow-green.. almost as if its not getting anything from the CPU. The light
showing drive activity isnt even lit except for the first 20 seconds after
pressing the power button.

I also tried switching the 1:2 to 2:3 thing close to the power supply inside
the CPU (the 3-prongs sticking up.. two of them bundled together in order to
reset BIOS) but still nothing worked.. can anyone help? Is my motherboard
dead?? Thank you for any help.

 

[seth]

i would contact sony at this point.
if the system crashed during a bios update, it's probably hosed

 

[Guest]

What was the error message you got when flashing the BIOS? Did you use the
correct BIOS?
http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/swu-download.pl?mdl=PCVRS420&upd_id=1711&os_id=7
In order to CLEAR the CMOS (> I also tried switching the 1:2 to 2:3 thing
close to the power supply) Yes you must move the switch as described. Did you
POWER OFF the PC before changing the PIN positions? If you do have the
correct BIOS update on diskette, then try this power down PC insert disk into
A:, remove the (1:2 to 2:3 thing) as you know it completly from board and
power on PC, some systems will force a flash.
Other causes for no power:
bad power supply
bad motherboard
bad processor

"My CPU has a powersurge/power maintenance(uninterrupted power supply)" UPS
is a batery backup in case of power failure. The only problem is that when
people go to the store and purchase these they do not bother reading the
warning that the batery IS NOT hooked up in the unit, you must hook this up
yourself. If you did not do this when purchased you do not have a batery
backup (UPS) please consult your user manual for the batery backup. FLIP UPS
UPSIDE DOWN UNSCREW THE BOTTOM PLATE AND PULL THE BATERY OUT.