Laptop Dropped Purposely! Need Opinion?

Hello~ I have a Sony Vaio Model pcg-8m2L This is my friends laptop and in a fight with his girlfriend, out of anger he threw it on the floor. He told me if I can fix it I can keep it. The monitor is I'm sure not fixable. I have plugged in a desktop monitor and when I startup It tries to start but freezes with windons xp on the monitor. Does this sound like the hard drive is not loading? Can I rule out the motherboard because its trying to load up?

 

Have you tried booting in SAFE MODE? Press F8 while loading, then select SAFE MODE. If it boots up in safe mode, your half-way there.

 

It won't let me boot in safe mode.Its freezes before it gets that far.

 

What I would do is try reinstalling everything. Put in the recovery cd of the laptop, boot from it, and try a new installation. If that does not work, then you can start looking at hardware problems and start you diagnosis from there.

 

I dont have the recovery cd But I will try booting off windows xp cd for a fresh install and see if anything happens?? Even though its freezing with windows xp trying to boot can it be fair to say mother board is trying and sounds like hard drive is not?

 

Hi it can be that the components inside the laptop may have been loose when it was dropped. You might wanna check the inside see if any cable is loose, try to reseat the memory, hard drive...

 

Ok I Booted up and windows xp window shows up with no problems and the loading bars show that it is loading then it goes blank..but all the light on the pc blink like its working fine..so IM wondering can it just be the video card is no good since the monitor is broken and does have wires exposed? Hey Thanks for everyone help.

 

That's gonna be sweet if you can get it running.

If you know the monitor is fine, but the mobo is dead, buy a replacement mobo on eBay and just swap in all your current parts into the new mobo. Get a new (and possibly larger) hard drive and you are in business.

 

Nope... The monitor is NOT work IM plugging a desktop monitor in the back of the laptop so IM wondering if it is now the video card thats NOT working since the monitor is broken with wires exposed. all the lights on the laptop blink like its working fine, I even put a movie in the drive and I saw the light on the drive light up and felt the dvd spinning.

 

Hey all I got it Running I formatted and seems to be running fine..Are all kinds of monitors combatible? can I use any brand name monitor on this sony?

 

any fink is fine.

 

OK Thank You... I am assuming a fink is a monitor

 

Are you talking about a replacement LCD? Any external monitor will be fine with the notebook, but replacing the LCD is more specific--particularly with the fit.