I recently installed 12.04 onto this little Sony, taking everything but the small recovery partition for its original Vista OS, and everything went well.
Yesterday, I noticed when I turned it on, the screen was blank on the right, with vertical lines on the left - the colors of the vertical lines match the logon screen, during boot-up, but then the logon screen appeared, I entered my password, and everything worked well.
I installed Dropbox, synced it with my other 12.04 machine, then installed dropbox, and synced it. At this point, the battery was starting to get low, so I placed the sony onto it's docking port, where the power cord was plugged in, and the screen went blank on the left, with vertical lines on the right.
As I couldn't get the machine to do anything, and was therefore unable to shutdown properly, so I removed it from the docking platform, to let the battery run down, as I have it set to shut down due to low battery.
This morning, I energized the machine, and found the same issue.
- I have tried starting on the battery, with the plugged in docking port, with the power cord plugged directly into the computer, and each of the previous methods with the battery removed, to no avail.
- I have tried to get into the bios with the FN + F1, F2, F3 and F4 with no joy.
- I tried powering on while pressing ESC - no joy.
- I read something to do with video speed/stamina switch, which sounded like a physical switch, but have been unable to find anything specific to this computer.
I am hoping that some of you who are smarter than me, may have the answer. Thanks for reading, and thanks for any insight you may be able to provide. -Chris