I have a Sony PCG-5G3L that will not boot to bios. It acts like its going to start but it just goes to a black (but backlit) screen. Everything works, all the buttons like num lock, scroll lock etc, but I can't even get to the bios to re-install windows.
I have trouble shot the RAM and it's fine. I have booted with the hard drive removed and still nothing.
It there a way to reset the BIOS or something? I've looked for the jumpers in the bottom but to no avail.
Sorry if this is in the wrong area. I honestly didn't know where to post it.
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Does anything show on the screen? It sounds like its either a corrupted bios or the eeprom on the mb is damaged.
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Nothing shows on the screen. I pulled out the keyboard looking for the bios jumper but i didn't find it. Nothing on the bottom by the RAM either.
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I'd guess its a bad mobo, possibly the igp is bad.
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I had a problem like that once on my vaio. try this:
unplug the ac power and remove the battery then hold the power button down for 15+ seconds.
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Basically I tried to update the Bios on my Laptop and i believe that the Upgrade somehow messed up, i am now left with a laptop with no Bios, Every time i boot i get no display what so ever but the laptop does actually switch on.
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i had once my vaio updated my vaio's bios with corupted bios.and so the laptop was almost dead.so i make a copy of a good bios for the same model then i removed the hard disk and buttery and tried to boot the maschine from a usb with good bios and it worked for me.
Just grab a bios for your maschine then make a bootable usb or floby and try to boot with the hard disk removed,try it.
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OK I made a bootable flash drive but the BIOS are an .exe file.
I extracted the exe and put the files on the root of my flash and started with no hard drive and no battery but nothing.
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electronicsguy Notebook Evangelist
Yup. It wont work unless you had set the boot up option initially itself, to allow boot from usb.
ofcourse if you can still boot from a bootable cd-rom (if you're machine has it then its possible).
unless you send it to service or take out the bios chip, reprogram it in a flash programmer with the correct bios, you're pretty much screwed in my opinion.
Laptop not booting to BIOS
Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by phooka, Jul 12, 2011.