Hello, I am not sure if anyone can help but heres my problem. I have a sony vaio laptop which I was running windows XP home edition. I had gotten a virus that would cause the computer to just shut down sometimes. So what I did was try use the system recovery to do a full drive c reformat. While reformatting the computer just shut off and now when I turn it back on it goes to a blue screen and says that it cant load the video driver??? It wont even let me press F8 or F6 to enter the setup while the computer is starting up. So my question is.... Is there any type of disk that I can download off the internet that I will be able to just re-install the drivers and just basically re-install windows XP? I dont have any discs that came with the computer. Can anyone help?
Here's a suggestion if you have a floppy drive. PCWorld has a link to a windowsXP boot disc with all the tools you need. It takes 6 floppys, and after you create them you will be able to continue. You should be able to load windows, and a generic driver will work until you get the vidoe driver from Sony. Search "WindowsXP Boot Disc" at PCWorld.com.
I suggest that you go to an internet cafe and see if you can download a recovery disk from Sony, with any luck it should automatically boot from the disk, if it doesn't and you say you can't get into the BIOS, then I don't think you can do anythign apart from buy a new HDD.
i think u have to format ur laptop & get the driver fro ur laptop fromat ur c: & u will find the driver in driver guide site
you need a windows xp disc to reformat it. it really sounds like it was shutting down from overheating possibly? why did you think it was a virus? clean out the vents with compressed air and put an xp disc in it.
It sounds to me like it is a hardware issue, but if you want to try and reinstall windows get a windows xp CD and put it in the drive and then it should try to boot from the CD, if not you will need to press F12 to select your boot device or go into the BIOS and put the CD drive as your first boot device.
rhino56....you may be right, my battery was not holding a normal charge and the computer would occasionally get pretty hot. But I definitely do have a software issue now since i screwed with it. I plan on getting a windows XP disc from a friend soon and trying to fix everything. I will also clean out the vents on the laptop.
If the machine shutdown during an installation, chances are something else is going on with it...probably a harware issue. Have you performed a harware diagnostics test?
Ok since the last time i posted, i got everything reformatted, but now when i start the laptop, it just says contact the manufacturer and turns off..... It loads all the way up until its about to show the desktop then it shows error and shuts down. Any ideas?
it says lsass.exe failed... Then sometimes it goes to a safe mode screen but i cant select the options and the timer just runs down and it restarts again.
- Enter into the BIOS and reset the BIOS. - Your pc come with a hidden partition maybe ? Try to press F10 on the VAIO logo so you can access the VAIO Recovery Center. - Also before you gonna do that, unplug everything (include the battery) and press the power button for about 30 secs - this is called ''static discharge'' - If nothing from above work check the installed ram by removing one module at the time so try to boot with only one at the time.
try some p2p on a different machine and looks a good rating torent - usually with recommendations or readme file. Your godo to go
Or just be careful. I am on windows, no virus scanner, I use firefox and am careful about what I download - I have not had a virus in many many years, just only download from trustable sources.