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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq
I was thinking more shove it in an oven >_>
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Had to look that up...interesting
Took the laptop apart , checked all the connections/ribbons and had a little push down on all the chips. Same thing happened when moving the lid or too much pressure on the case, the times I could actually get it to boot.
Took one of the memory sticks and it booted fine every time and no amount of moving the screen or wiggling cables would get it to freeze. Inserted the memory stick again and problem was back
After trying every combination of memory sticks and positions it seems the problem only occurs if there is memory in a particular slot (one furthest from the motherboard), rather than one of the sticks being at fault. Did the magic press all around but nothing made any difference. Can't see any breaks or splits on the connector or board (but there must be a thin one somewhere), so for now i'll just get a single 4GB (seen some for sale for about £30) stick to get him going. Sony told him they had no idea what the problem was and that he would have to buy a new motherboard for £250 to see if that changed anything and if not they would then have to chance the screen. It's only an i3 2.4ghz so would be better off getting a new laptop for that price.