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[TheBoy]

Cue theboy with an offer to educate it with Sammy. (what it deserves, in fairness.)

Offer accepted, though will have to use Percy Pickaxe.....

[Ian_D]

We had a customer in a few months back, laptop was a pain to get into, and the hard drive was tiny!

We have another sony in at the moment thats buggered! Turns on, and everything’s fine... the 3-4 mins later, the back light starts flickering like mad....

'Replace the inverter then' i hear you say... Tried that, no joy.

The thing that makes it even stranger, when you turn the laptop off, it will not POST (fans and power leds etc come on) unless you first remove the battery + power, and leave it for a min  :-/ It will turn off and on fine, providing the screen hasn't started flickering. Really odd.

[TheBoy]

We had a customer in a few months back, laptop was a pain to get into, and the hard drive was tiny!

We have another sony in at the moment thats buggered! Turns on, and everything’s fine... the 3-4 mins later, the back light starts flickering like mad....

'Replace the inverter then' i hear you say... Tried that, no joy.

The thing that makes it even stranger, when you turn the laptop off, it will not POST (fans and power leds etc come on) unless you first remove the battery + power, and leave it for a min  :-/ It will turn off and on fine, providing the screen hasn't started flickering. Really odd.

'tis Sony. Bin it. 'nuff said.

[handy]

While we are on the subject of laptop's,  Has anyone a tablet laptop for sale.   Im after one for my daughter ASAP for uni next week??

[Ken T]

We had a customer in a few months back, laptop was a pain to get into, and the hard drive was tiny!

We have another sony in at the moment thats buggered! Turns on, and everything[ch8217]s fine... the 3-4 mins later, the back light starts flickering like mad....

'Replace the inverter then' i hear you say... Tried that, no joy.

The thing that makes it even stranger, when you turn the laptop off, it will not POST (fans and power leds etc come on) unless you first remove the battery + power, and leave it for a min  :-/ It will turn off and on fine, providing the screen hasn't started flickering. Really odd.

I'm glad you've got it and not me !

I am working on a small sony at the moment, and instead of one board it has about 5 smal ones, an absolute pain to try and get to work out of the case.

So as well as fixing Omega's with his Tech 2, I see TB provides a Sony fixing service with his pickaxe. May have to recomend this to the customer !

Ken

[handy]

While we are on the subject of laptop's,  Has anyone a tablet laptop for sale.   Im after one for my daughter ASAP for uni next week??

Anyone sellin a panasonic toughbook ??

[Kevin Wood]

.. and right on cue, my Sony laptop now drops the WLAN connection after about an hour of OOF surfing and thereafter about every 5 minutes.  

No problem with Mrs. KW's laptop or anything else on the network. :-/

Kevin

[Ken T]

See TB, he has the answer  

I've got to face that damn small Sony first thing tomorrow  

Ken