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    sony vaio vgn-fs115s

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by pickster001, Nov 16, 2011.

  1. pickster001

    pickster001 Newbie

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    i bought a sony vaio fs115s second hand from ebay , the hdd had been taken out so i replaced it with a spare hdd i had already , now the fun starts i can turn on the power and it all seems fine works great i managed to get xp up and running the problem i have is when i have to restart it it will not get past the first sony screen , i have found that if i leave the battery out and leave it for an hour then start it just off mains power it will start fine run fine all as it should but everytime i come to restart same problem , can anyone give me any ideas how to cure it pls
     
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    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    Was that a clean installation of Windows XP, or was it already on the spare hdd?
     
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    pickster001 Newbie

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    hi thx for the reply

    yes it was a clean installation , the thing was as you prolly know xp copies the files and does a restart from which it didnt untill i left it for another hour then it installed and another hour later it booted into xp
     
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