Brazzy Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 About 4 months ago my prized vaio laptop developed a problem which rendered it useless to me. Suddenly when I pressed the start button the BIOS splash screen or whatever you call it, lol, had strips of red lines consisting of red dots running through it vertically. Then when it started, right before the vista logo would pop up, the screen would just go blank and it seemed as though windows was running but I had no GUI. What a bummer. I tried to restore it but it still had the same issue so I ended up getting a newer computer and set this one aside for future education. Recently, I dusted it off, got out the restore disks I created when it was new and started to boot up to my external CD/DVD drive. I tried complete restore several times and had the same problem but I kept trying to do a complete restore. Erased the disc with 0's twice still the same issue. There are 2 hard drives in this computer so I took out them and switched them just to see what would happen. I had 2, 2GB RAM cards in it which I had bought to upgrade the RAM so I put the originals back in, just to see what happens, lol. I finally got a good restore and started to remove Norton 360, Live Update, etc. etc. and started the Windows Update which seemed to go fine up until Service Pack 1, lol, when bammmmm the dreaded vertical red dot stripes on the BIOS screen again, back to square 1. Make a long story short, I didn't give up and it's now a good running, back to original Vaio AR630E. I never had to buy any hardware for this laptop yet and it's still going strong, lol. Moral of the story is, "Give it a break but don't give it up". P.S.: In case your thinking it, I don't believe in Jinx's, lol. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillBee Posted October 9, 2015 Share Posted October 9, 2015 Way to go Brazzster!!! +1 for being Da Man! \m/ B!ll \m/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brazzy Posted October 9, 2015 Author Share Posted October 9, 2015 Way to go Brazzster!!! +1 for being Da Man! \m/ B!ll \m/ Hey BillBeezzter!!!! Thanks Man! I'm still toying with this Ol Vaio, lol. This laptop has 2 hard drives so I'm installing a second version (config) on the other hard drive so I can toy around with different settings, lol, 'till I break the software again. The first time (4 months ago) I must have had a bad video card driver. I don't know for sure though, how can I.???? hahahahaha I hear Windows Vista is very buggy but what do I know as an end user :) I'll toy with it 'till I have a real problem such as hardware. Rock On! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brazzy Posted October 13, 2015 Author Share Posted October 13, 2015 Hey BillBee!, I had to use Data Erase 3 times (about 3 hrs) in order to get the Complete Recovery to take hold, lol. The 'puter works great now, like new. Before I just erased it once and then did the recovery but I had all kinds of weird symbols on the screen and different colors and designs pop up during startup and the OS just didn't work right, lol. I guess I had some really bad corruption on the disc, hahahaha. I guess I should've done the NSA Erase process :). Any it works great now and still has the original hard drives. Just for lollipops and giggles I ordered a Solid State Drive for it to see how that goes. Rock On! with DeepDown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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