Disaster struck this morning. My trusty 5 yr old vaio gave up the ghost.
About a year ago the hdmi slot ceased working, I tired everything to reinstate it, but the computer just didn’t acknowledge I had one. I resorted to hooking it up to the tv with the vga.
About a month ago I would find the screen blank when I got up in the morning, restarting would bring it back.
This morning no amount of restarting brings it back. I can hear it whirring, so I assume it’s booting up, just no screen at all.
I also changed the screen after cracking it about 6 months ago.
Any ideas from the tech gurus? Chip maybe come loose? New motherboard required? Anything I should try to fix it before dismantling it?
Mine did that earlier in the week. Opened mine up and found my Hdrive had proper cooked with a tempered casing of nice bluey yellow… Fan has been going mental trying to cool it for a year and it did get so hot parts were untouchable. I cured the fault by purchasing one of the New touchscreen Sony viao, it’s very nice to use once you get the hang of it and I would recommend it. 500 quid and there is apparently 100 quid cash back but I ain’t looked at that yet takes some days to become valid or summat.
What I tend to do is look on ebay for the same model and just swap the hard drive over. You might find something sold for parts that has what you want to work working, maybe even the HDMI.
Yup thats mine ,it was an HP that the fan went flat out on constantly … like it was a harrier jet in vertical take off mode ,and it would still keep your coffee hot . When I opened it up it had very obviously been cooking itself to death .
Mine is run by AMD
I opened her up this morning and realised my fan isn’t spinning up. Further investigation showed the thermal paste on processor and graphics chip was very runny. The HD is spinning up. I’m thinking the lack of fan has toasted both chips?
I’ve seen this:
Identical model, I don’t care about his dodgy battery or broken caps key, although I do wonder why he didn’t fix those issues himself and bung another fifty quid on the price?
I could exchange the good bits (battery and keyboard) from my current laptop
It’s possible that that it shut its self down to prevent thermal runaway. If you can get a replacement fan, I have some silver based thermal paste you can borrow and some thermal material for other laptop components.
You can pop round at some point to grab it. If you need a loan laptop let me know.
Thanks Kev, I’m currently working from the flickering screen of my HP Tx2000, painfully slow but it will keep me going for a couple of days.
I wondered about the thermal cutout, so I scraped some of the good paste back across the mating surfaces and had a go at booting up. Nothing. I would have at least expected a boot screen.
Given that the HDMI went, then the screen died regularly overnight…In fact, the last time I tried rebooting it after I got up to dead screen it temporarily showed me a grey dogtooth pattern :crazy:
I’m thiinking that replacement on ebay might solve all my graphics problems, including the lack of hdmi.
yup, Mrs Scorch’s finest paint brushes were employed.
Also, it’s one of those set ups that has a copper pipe running to the main processor, where it is clamped down. It just hangs over the top of the graphics chip. I am 99% sure that picking up the laptop by one corner has flexed the base enough to bend that copper by a out 2mm, making a 3mm gap over the graphics chip in between. I’ve give it a bit of tweak so it sits properly 1mm over the chip.
I found some heat sink paste in the back of my kitchen drawer, so gave them both a good blob.
Dry solder joint came straight up on the multimeter.
I think that over time the gap that opened up between heat sink and chip eventually broke the thermal seal which is when my hdmi went south.
It would run vga because it’s computationally inexpensive by comparison.
It ran like that for a while, with a pool of superheated thermal paste sizzling between chip and heat-sink, until the fan packed up. With all forms of cooling gone, it kicked out the vga and display too.
Really pleased to have the hdmi back, you can’t begin to imagine the lengths I went to trying to solve that one. :crazy:
I was going to buy that £129 quid deal from ebay, thankfully it had already been bought Good karma.