Fixing SONY Laptops, including HDD and CMOS.

[MegalosSkylaki]

Anybody ever worked inside a SONY laptop or knows about it?
I asked the Repair person at a Staples and was told they don't take in SONY laptops because they require a special flatter screw driver which is hard to get.

Can ordinary computer tools improvise?

I need to change a Harddrive and maybe the CMOS battery needs to be replaced after the lappy was sitting idle for three years.

Can a laptop CMOS battery go dysfunctional in that period of time?

MegalosSkylaki

[Taxmancometh]

I'm not sure about the other question, but the CMOS battery should be fine. I have a laptop that's at least 10 years old and the CMOS battery is fine. Amazingly.

[MegalosSkylaki]

That is what I think. I have often worked with computers that were real old or laptops that were scarcely used and no CMOS problem as I know. Of course maybe this one started out as a dud. The simplest test is to check the time but but I can get the User to accept the password.

Maybe there is a Hard drive glitch which may even be hardware and not software. Still I had problems when i first booted after 3 years of disuse that i got an error message I had never seen that the OS had to be corrected (not the usual upgrades that accumate in tie with all OS's) and a grey screen and maybe there is a glitch with the password so it's not so remote a posibility.

Neither HDD or a CMOS is prohibetively expensive to replace and I can upgrade fron a 320 gb/5400rpm to a 500gb/7200rpm in the bargain--unless I have to go to proprietary SONY to get it fixed. Last time I bought a SONY I had problems with the Company who insisted an AMD cpu was made by Intel.

DOOG

[MegalosSkylaki]

I'm not sure about the other question, but the CMOS battery should be fine. I have a laptop that's at least 10 years old and the CMOS battery is fine. Amazingly.

I've been wondering if there still could be a problem with the CMOS/BIOS configuration and loadup, may some glitch that doesn't allow it to to boot up properly and gives me a grey screen before it goes to user and won't respond to what may be a correct password and then I noticed this still up in MOTHERBOARDS:

Thanks everyone for all your help but it hit me this morning when I woke up and realized the drivers for the motherboard would be reinstalled automatically if I powered down, removed the power cord and battery from my lappy for a while and then rebooted. It worked like a charm! Im back in business!!!!

-- USB MICE NOT RECOGNIZED

When the CAAT awakes I'll try it.

Errr...nobody out there ever had to open and repair a SONY laptop ?

DOOG