topic Beeps and black screen in PCs & Accessories https://community.sony.se/t5/pcs-accessories/beeps-and-black-screen/m-p/298067#M28718 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi</P><P></P><P>I have a sony vaio VGN-FZ31M laptop that has given up on me, when I try and turn it on I get a bleeping noise and the screen is just black.</P><P></P><P>I have been looking on a few forums and tried everything, removed the RAM and tried to turn it on, removed the battery and reseated the hard drive I still keep getting the same problem.</P><P></P><P>Is there anything else you can recomend?</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:56:01 GMT Stiff0 2012-02-17T16:56:01Z Beeps and black screen https://community.sony.se/t5/pcs-accessories/beeps-and-black-screen/m-p/298067#M28718 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi</P><P></P><P>I have a sony vaio VGN-FZ31M laptop that has given up on me, when I try and turn it on I get a bleeping noise and the screen is just black.</P><P></P><P>I have been looking on a few forums and tried everything, removed the RAM and tried to turn it on, removed the battery and reseated the hard drive I still keep getting the same problem.</P><P></P><P>Is there anything else you can recomend?</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:56:01 GMT https://community.sony.se/t5/pcs-accessories/beeps-and-black-screen/m-p/298067#M28718 Stiff0 2012-02-17T16:56:01Z Beeps and black screen https://community.sony.se/t5/pcs-accessories/beeps-and-black-screen/m-p/298068#M28719 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;">Hi Stiff0.</SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;">How many bleeps do you hear?&nbsp; The BIOS gives a code of what the hardware problem is.</SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;">I suspect you may have a video chip problem.&nbsp; If your Vaio is less than 4 years old you may find this of interest: -</SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"><IMG alt="nVidiaFault.jpg" class="jive-image-thumbnail jive-image" onclick="" src="http://community-stage.sony.co.uk/legacyfs/online/76797_nVidiaFault.jpg" width="450" /></SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"><img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://community.sony.se/html/@13A2E6A3774A8B47B4EC6F04089539E1/images/smilies/063.png" alt=":thinking:" title=":thinking:" /><BR /></SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:54:39 GMT https://community.sony.se/t5/pcs-accessories/beeps-and-black-screen/m-p/298068#M28719 Blencogo 2012-02-17T18:54:39Z