Sony Laptop not booting.
 

:( My Mate runs the local Boxing club and he has a laptop for their affairs.
Recently, it refuses to boot up. If you push the on button , the lights come on and go straight off again.
It does the same whether you have the battery in or just try to boot from the mains.
It`a a Sony Vaio PCG-FX101, personally i think the Motherboard has had it.!
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, The boxing club are self sufficient so they don`t have a great deal of money to spend.
Thanks for all replies.
Neil.

Re: Sony Laptop not booting.
 

bud, does the lappy go into bios at all or is it even dead by then?

perhaps something to try is to get a service manual for the laptop and see if you can reset the cmos?

but I think you might be right on the mobo part mate...sounds like the mobo has had its last fight.

Re: Sony Laptop not booting.
 

Hi Doc, Just the green lappy lights come on briefly and then go out again. If i hold the button down, they do the same thing over and over.:( I`ve been building and repairing pc`s for about 10 years now but not had much to do with laptops i must admit. Do they have a psu like Desktop pc`s have or not.?
And no, it does not even reach the bios screen.

Re: Sony Laptop not booting.
 

dead mobo it sounds to me then bud :(

laptop has a psu but not as a pc and if not even a single light stays on for longer then 5 secs then its bad news.

soz mate

Re: Sony Laptop not booting.
 

if the mobo is dead you can retrieve the data from the HD by buying an HD enclousre (about £10)