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 VGN-FS742/W / pcg7d2l boots but screen remains blank and black

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by anthonybolivar, Jan 10, 2010.

  1. anthonybolivar

    anthonybolivar Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    1
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    My Sony Vaio VGN-FS742/W / pcg7d2l turns on when I press the power button but the screen remains blank and black it shows no signs of power to the screen, no flicker nothing at all. I connected the laptop to an external lcd monitor to see if maybe the laptop screen was busted and nothing i connected to the external monitor and it doesnt work and i pressed the function + lcd hot key and it still doesnt work. I tried booting with a windows xp cd and still nothing i tried everything. what could be the problem? when i turn on the laptop it doesnt make much noise and I cant feel the fan but i do hear the hard drive when i put my ear to it. anyone have any ideas what could be wrong?!??!