The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Sony Vaio Issue.

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Sinico1234, Jul 5, 2009.

  1. Sinico1234

    Sinico1234 Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    30
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Hey people.
    Just got back from Uni to find my family have completely destroyed our home laptop. I did a fresh XP install and everything seemed fine. Last step was installing the graphics drivers. I was then asked to restart, then on startup blue screen and reboot. Cycle continues until i turn it off and hard restart. Then on startup i get new hardware found in the taskbar saying 'ACPI Uniprocessor'. Then i'm asked to restart again with the reason 'System Settings Change' 'Windows has finished installing new devices'. BUT it does this everytime i boot up the laptop. Very confused. It didn't do this before the graphic drivers were installed.

    Laptop Spec:

    SONY VAIO VGN-FS315E
    http://vaio.sony.co.uk/view/ShowProduct.action?product=VGN-FS315E&productFilters=retired&site=voe_en_GB_cons&pageType=Overview&category=VN+FS+Series

    Any help is appreciated and if anyone needs anymore information then just ask.

    Thanks,
    Ian
     
    Sinico1234, Jul 5, 2009
    #1
  2. qhn

    qhn Notebook User

    Reputations:
    1,654
    Messages:
    5,955
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    205
    Try start it up under Safe Mode, remove the graphic driver and try again. Got your XP up to date?

    cheers ...
     
    qhn, Jul 5, 2009
    #2
  3. Sinico1234

    Sinico1234 Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    30
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Hi just restarted. Things have got worse but now the problem is known. Got a blue screen which read.

    'A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer

    The BIOS in this system is not fully ACPI compliant'

    This ties in with the wierd things happening before.
    Sadly i have no clue how to solve this, the blue screen gives me some ways.
    But my laptop just gives me a black screen when i turn it on.

    And yeah XP is all up to date.
     
    Sinico1234, Jul 5, 2009
    #3
  4. Sinico1234

    Sinico1234 Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    30
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Sinico1234, Jul 5, 2009
    #4
  5. Altdotweb

    Altdotweb Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    18
    Messages:
    22
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Did you install the most recent chipset drivers before installing anything else?
     
    Altdotweb, Jul 5, 2009
    #5
  6. Sinico1234

    Sinico1234 Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    30
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    I didn't install them first but i installed them before the video ones which i did last. I've managed to get my PC on now btw =]
     
    Sinico1234, Jul 5, 2009
    #6
  7. Sinico1234

    Sinico1234 Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    30
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    OK just tried the update from Sony. And it said my BIOS was up to date and doesn't need an update.
     
    Sinico1234, Jul 5, 2009
    #7
  8. qhn

    qhn Notebook User

    Reputations:
    1,654
    Messages:
    5,955
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    205
    qhn, Jul 7, 2009
    #8