I searched TechRepublic and see similar experience but not the same solutions. I have Sony Vaio PCG-FXA36, and it will not start: pressing power button gets LEDs to light momentarily, then in 2 sec they go out and nothing starts. Dull flash on monitor is sometimes visible for about 1/2 second. I have tried the power-off/battery out reset per Sony instruction, no change. NOTE: 3 times in this condition I got it to start after about 100 tries; now it seems it won’t go again no matter how many tries. When I got it going those 3 other times, if I turned it off, it started right up; but then when I left it off overnight, next day the problem returned. When it did start , error message said “Error 210 stuck key 2C” but then the computer ran perfectly. CMOS Battery has not ever been changed. The NB has been in storage a long before these events; but reagrdless of the main battery it will not start. Looking for other things to try before I give up amd send it to professional (expensive, probably not worth-it) repair facility.
