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Sony Vaio FR-415B - boot problem

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by g.a.p

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Hi my laptop will not start, on pressing the power on button, I get a green power on light followed immediately by the hdd led lighting amber momentarily at the same time that the floppy drive fires up.. the laptop crashes at this point going completely dead.. this happens each time I press the power on key. the whole cycle lasts not mor than a second and at no time is there any visual or audible error codes.

floppy drive faulty? maybe the cpu?

p.s. inserting a disk in the drive has no effect other than you here it try to spin up.

please help

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by g.a.p

have take the cpu out along with the fan assembly and the symptoms are the same... suggests a dead cpu, right?

forgot to mention that the fans do not fire up

by the scummy one

this would have been better posted in the questions forum.

Ok, some things to try. remove the battery, plug in AC. Does it still do it?

If docked, undock, same problem??

If undocked, does docking correct it?

Likely the problem is a power issue. If at no time the fans spin, then power is likely not getting to them. It is more likely the motherboard than the proc.

by g.a.p

I hadn't installed the CPU correctly.. did it properly and everything functions as it should.. phew

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