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    BSODD VGN-FW520f

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Lykos, Aug 4, 2010.

  1. Lykos

    Lykos Notebook Consultant

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    Blue Screen Of Double Death.

    My dad bought a VGN-FW520 a little while ago and it has been running fine until the last couple of days. I am the tech savvy person in the family who is into all kinds of technologies and geeky things, and I've tried everything from swapping hard drives, swapping ram, updating bios, damn near taking it apart to get it to work.

    The problem is that it won't even let me boot into windows anymore, not even safe mode. I try to clear the partition and install a new OS and it blue screens on me there too. Windows recovery mode won't even load sometimes. The only thing that I can get into is the bios menu. Now, I've dealt with viruses glory (sister's computers/laptops), tech problems (dad's), and I build my own computer (just like many on here no doubt). Yet I've never came across a problem like this and even this narcissist knows when it is time to concede and ask others if they have experienced something like this.
     
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    H.A.L. 9000 Occam's Chainsaw

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    Can you get the stop code from the BSOD? That would help point in some kind of direction. A lot of times it's a GPU issue, but we need more technical information about the FW in question. Also can you list the build components.. CPU, GPU, amount of RAM... etc..
     
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    Lykos, Aug 5, 2010
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    IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL -- is usually a memory access or write error. You said you have tried swapping RAM... The specs show 4GB, so you took both OEM sticks out and tried one or more from another working notebook with the same DDR2 800MHz RAM? And you also said that you could get to the BIOS... was it stable while you were in the BIOS? This REALLY sounds like a RAM issue, if not that, a faulty MoBo is possible.
     
    H.A.L. 9000, Aug 6, 2010
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    IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL last time happened to me when i was using vista...
     
    Andrew08, Aug 6, 2010
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    Yep, swapped the ram and tried some from an old laptop sitting around. I've ordered another 2GB stick and I'll try it when it gets here. Thanks for the help, if it is a faulty mother board I'll just have him send it in to sony, nothing I can do without buying a whole new motherboard and he'd probably get it replaced for free [no need to waste money].

    The bios menu is the only thing that is left stable, but sometimes it won't even let me get there, it'll just hang on the Vaio boot screen.
     
    Lykos, Aug 7, 2010
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