Sony VAIO Laptop only boots to Safe Mode
My Sony VAIO Laptop (PCG-C1VN) starts ok but then only boots in Save mode.
It is about 6 years old, has XP-Pro on it. It's had its growing pains, but was working fine for about a year.
Previous problems were usually the result of being handled roughly going back and forth to school each day, it would not be able to find the OS, then the Tech re-seated everything and it lived on for another day.
Now, without warning and it was in the house for a year just being used for internet browsing, it can't boot to normal mode.
It looks like it's starting up ok with Windows XP, then a blue screen of death flashes, then a black screen that says "Windows did not start successfully . . . Choose Safe mode, safe mode with networking, or safe mode with command prompt.
It still boots in safe mode, so something's still working ok.
How can I troubleshoot the boot problem?
Thanks.
It is about 6 years old, has XP-Pro on it. It's had its growing pains, but was working fine for about a year.
Previous problems were usually the result of being handled roughly going back and forth to school each day, it would not be able to find the OS, then the Tech re-seated everything and it lived on for another day.
Now, without warning and it was in the house for a year just being used for internet browsing, it can't boot to normal mode.
It looks like it's starting up ok with Windows XP, then a blue screen of death flashes, then a black screen that says "Windows did not start successfully . . . Choose Safe mode, safe mode with networking, or safe mode with command prompt.
It still boots in safe mode, so something's still working ok.
How can I troubleshoot the boot problem?
Thanks.
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The screen is real small, 12" I think, and in safe mode about 25% is chopped off each end (vertically)
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uh - I did what you said, and it . . . booted ok ! (?)
I re-started - and it was ok?
I'll leave this open until tomorrow and see if it's still working ok. But if it does come back to this problem, it's all set not to re-start, thanks.
I re-started - and it was ok?
I'll leave this open until tomorrow and see if it's still working ok. But if it does come back to this problem, it's all set not to re-start, thanks.
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There may have also just been a corrupt setting or something that was causing this, and simply disabling the "Automatic Restart" option somehow corrected the entry.
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Thanks for all the assists . . .
computerfixins - sounds good, I can re-seat myself.
Crash2100 - ok, hopefully that was it !
photo - that's a good idea, will do that tonight.
nobus - I never did that, so just looked it up and so get a new trick out of this post.
computerfixins - sounds good, I can re-seat myself.
Crash2100 - ok, hopefully that was it !
photo - that's a good idea, will do that tonight.
nobus - I never did that, so just looked it up and so get a new trick out of this post.
more info : http://www.updatexp.com/scannow-sfc.html
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Great - thanks !
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