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    need help on sony vgn-a270 laptop

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by jskamm, Jun 4, 2008.

  1. jskamm

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    have sony vgn-a270 laptop, running xp. it was working fine last week now upon boot up get "reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device & press any key"

    logged into setup and checked boot order and its correct. reset the default values in setup and rebooted and still get same problem.

    also inserted a win98se cd into to cd/dvd player and was able to access the cd drive. also was able to get to a dos prompt and could not get to the c: drive/HD.

    after checking internet, it sounds as though the HD, the motherboard or there might be a ram problem.

    Can anyone help? My daughter claims she doesn't have the sony recovery disk and i can't figure out what to do. Is there anything i can do? if i have to replace the HD can someone assist me in removing the bottom panel of the laptop.

    I've gone to sony and they only have a users manual for my laptop and that doesn't show instructions for back panel removal.
     
    jskamm, Jun 4, 2008
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