I Have a sony vaio laptop, It was working perfectly until last week when it told me
“windows has finished installing new devices, the software that supports your device requires that you restart your computer. You must restart your computer before the new settings will take effect. do you want to restart your computer now?”
When I clicked yes, the computer restarted, and would not resart, I could not access the options (i.e – Boot sequence settings etc)
I then tried the sony recovery tool and the same problems happened, so i contacted a local computer shop and they told me that I would be worth trying a fresh install of windows xp home as the sony recovery is not very good. I tried this, downloaded all of the sony utillties and drivers and the same thing happened again. The only way that I can start the system is to place a little pressure on the right hand side towards the front of the laptop and it boots up, when you get into windows it says “found new hardware – acpi uniprocessor pc” and another icon comes up saying the same as it did before. I have managed to restart the laptop by using pressure, but it still asks for me to restart???? by the way, if I don’t place pressure on the front it either bluescreens (without error codes) or tells me the application fails to initialise properly. Any help on this would be greatly appriciated.
