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[ILUG] Advice on laptop BIOS failure

[ILUG] Advice on laptop BIOS failure

Patrick Tuite patrick.tuite at windmilllane.com
Fri Dec 9 18:08:00 GMT 2005


Apologies for the careless spelling.

On Friday 09 December 2005 18:04, Patrick Tuite wrote:
> I once tried to replace a hard drive on a sony vaio 505fx, a 4GB with a
> 10GB and it would not work. Looked to me like it would not accept the
> bigger capacity drive. Latest BIOS was installed. I don't know if that
> could be you're trouble.
>
> Patrick
>
> On Friday 09 December 2005 17:41, conor at discuskeeping.com wrote:
> > Quoting Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie>:
> > > I'm wondering if any of the ILUG geeks can suggest a solution
> > > to a problem I'm having with my ancient Sony Picturebook (C1VFK).
> > > The hard disk on this recently went wrong,
> > > but after replacing it I no longer get the SONY logo -
> > > the screen lights up when the powert-button is pressed,
> > > but nothing else happens.
> >
> > Remove the HDD, does it POST?
> >
> > Conor.



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