superkdogg
Senior member
I have a rig from a friend of mine. It's a Sony Vaio from BB with a 2.8 Northwood, 512 MB Ram, an 865/75 Intel Chipset and what appears to be an Asus 32 MB GF4MX video card.
The machine started right up and was working just fine for about 1/2 hr. and I actually emailed her saying that it wasn't acting up. Then right after that it spontaneously shut down. I mean it just clicked off and all the fans stopped and it was dead. This is the same problem that she was having with it. Since I had the cover off, I immediately started feeling for heat and trying to smell something either burning up or just smelling wrong. (Pretty scientific, I know.) Anyhow, no luck.
Thing is that when I try to start it back up, it's a no-go. All the fans power up and the HDD light starts blinking, but it doesn't post. The fans stay spinning at max speed indefinitely too, which is weird.
I have tried reseating the ram so far and that doesn't help. I need to grab a screwdriver to check the video card, and I'll probably also take a look at the PSU, although I am pretty sure that Sony would have enough brains not to cut corners on the PSU.
Does anybody know of any suggestions other than these? I'm leaning toward motherboard going to hell at this point, but I'm open to any input and suggestions from you all.
Also, as a sidenote, this started about 2-3 weeks ago and when it did, my friend went to BB to tell them about it. They said heat and that the case needed to be cleaned out. I'm not sure who did the cleaning or how they did it, but the sunofagun's as clean as can be now-which worries me because I am imagining paper towels and windex (I doubt that was the case, but scary nonetheless). Anyway-can anybody give me some suggestions? It's been sitting here, not posting for 45 minutes now but when I first plugged it in it ran fine for about 35 minutes. Lil help please??
The machine started right up and was working just fine for about 1/2 hr. and I actually emailed her saying that it wasn't acting up. Then right after that it spontaneously shut down. I mean it just clicked off and all the fans stopped and it was dead. This is the same problem that she was having with it. Since I had the cover off, I immediately started feeling for heat and trying to smell something either burning up or just smelling wrong. (Pretty scientific, I know.) Anyhow, no luck.
Thing is that when I try to start it back up, it's a no-go. All the fans power up and the HDD light starts blinking, but it doesn't post. The fans stay spinning at max speed indefinitely too, which is weird.
I have tried reseating the ram so far and that doesn't help. I need to grab a screwdriver to check the video card, and I'll probably also take a look at the PSU, although I am pretty sure that Sony would have enough brains not to cut corners on the PSU.
Does anybody know of any suggestions other than these? I'm leaning toward motherboard going to hell at this point, but I'm open to any input and suggestions from you all.
Also, as a sidenote, this started about 2-3 weeks ago and when it did, my friend went to BB to tell them about it. They said heat and that the case needed to be cleaned out. I'm not sure who did the cleaning or how they did it, but the sunofagun's as clean as can be now-which worries me because I am imagining paper towels and windex (I doubt that was the case, but scary nonetheless). Anyway-can anybody give me some suggestions? It's been sitting here, not posting for 45 minutes now but when I first plugged it in it ran fine for about 35 minutes. Lil help please??
