I took apart my vaio laptop (I have had experience with Vaio Laptops) and put it back together twice trying to figure out why the screen is blank and also the indicator (LED indicator) that looks like a cup does not lite up. Everything else works. The screen for the laptop is fine, its just that the laptop is 3 to 5 years old. The only reason I took it apart is because the ram had 512MB worth of ram and it only indicated that it has 256MB. I noticed it awhile ago, but it pissed me off so I took it apart and put it back together, I found out the reason the ram wasn't working. The ram needed to have something being forced on it with the lid closed, so it will reconize it. Any suggestions.
goose001 0 Newbie Poster
JorgeM 958 Problem Solver Team Colleague Featured Poster
I am not familiar with that specific laptop, but I would assume that there would be a ribbon cable that comes from the monitor to connect to the laptop's motherboard. Have you checked that cable to make sure it is plugged in properly?
caperjack 875 I hate 20 Questions Team Colleague
as fo the ram ,if the clips that hold in are boken you could fold a pice of Cerial Box type paper to fill the gap and put the lid back on ,not sure why you took it apart to look attthe ram ,most laptops have a cover on the bottom to view ,remove the ram ,what is the exact model of you Vaio
vaio laptop
egohoney 0 Newbie Poster
I am not familiar with that specific laptop, but I would assume that there would be a ribbon cable that comes from the monitor to connect to the laptop's motherboard. Have you checked that cable to make sure it is plugged in properly?
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goose001 0 Newbie Poster
yes, PCG-FXA49 Vaio laptop. And yes I checked the ribbion cable yes fine. But theres a black cable with a round thing that can have a little screw to hold it and that turns the cup/bottle image on to the color (LED) orange. But, I don't know whewre to connect it?
goose001 0 Newbie Poster
Also, the model I had, the ram is under the cpu fan, so everything was coverd so I took it apart. I found the problem it was that something needed to be applied to the ram to keep it held down.
goose001 0 Newbie Poster
the model I have.
JorgeM 958 Problem Solver Team Colleague Featured Poster
So you resovled your issue, it was that the RAM modules were not properly seated, correct?
goose001 0 Newbie Poster
yes, then I put the laptop back together and the screen was black but everything was on and the screen had the LED's running.
goose001 0 Newbie Poster
but no image on the screen.
goose001 0 Newbie Poster
Everything worked (Hard Drive, CD/Drive, but the screen was black.
goose001 0 Newbie Poster
Will a pic help?
goose001 0 Newbie Poster
ajaysinghinyng 0 Newbie Poster
chekc the ram and inbuilt speaker.
or check display cable,.,,,
ajaysinghinyng 0 Newbie Poster
or check your cpu also.
display matter more by cpu.
adityatandon 23 Junior Poster in Training
Happened to me on my HP Laptop once before.. I finally had to throw that beautiful piece... And i did exactly the same thing.. But in my case, while inserting the RAM i managed to bend a part in the seat... Tried fixing it with a screw driver, ended up breaking it :P Then i finally took it to the HP guys, they were charging me almost half the price I paid for the lappy, so decided to chuck it and buy myself a new one...
My Advice : Get it to a SONY Outlet, let them fix it up for u.. I'm pretty sure it'll still turn out to be cheaper coz the probability that someone wud screw something up in such intricate machinery is very large...
deo2_mansehra 0 Newbie Poster
Hay Bro,
Check your RAM if here is beeping with, then it is RAM or Processor prob plz check..
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