Hi first post and looking for some help !
I have a Sony Vaio Model PCG-8Y2L ( VGN-AR520E ) running Vista 32bit that has been working perfectly since I purchased.
A couple of days ago my son was playing a game on it and when I noticed all the font sizes had changed when he finished. I subsequently simply changed them back using the display settings and all worked ok again.
Later that day the machine froze and locked up requiring me to hard shut down and re-boot. Upon reboot it failed to fully boot and the screen resolution was poor with flecks of red and blue visible. It kept coming back to the same place and requiring me to do a safe boot - which I did and at that first point it was successful and thinking a little smart I did a system restore back to the day before and it completed. However upon reboot after the restore it has got worse !
I now am able to power up and elect any of the options around re-boot, normal, networking, safe mode etc but all end up back to the screen being black but the pointer working but nothing else.
If I attempt to run reboot normally then it just keeps going around and around on its own trying to re-boot.
Anyone got any thoughts or suggestions I can try. Happy to pass on as much detail as I can....
Many thanks in advance for any and all help offered !
K
I have a Sony Vaio Model PCG-8Y2L ( VGN-AR520E ) running Vista 32bit that has been working perfectly since I purchased.
A couple of days ago my son was playing a game on it and when I noticed all the font sizes had changed when he finished. I subsequently simply changed them back using the display settings and all worked ok again.
Later that day the machine froze and locked up requiring me to hard shut down and re-boot. Upon reboot it failed to fully boot and the screen resolution was poor with flecks of red and blue visible. It kept coming back to the same place and requiring me to do a safe boot - which I did and at that first point it was successful and thinking a little smart I did a system restore back to the day before and it completed. However upon reboot after the restore it has got worse !
I now am able to power up and elect any of the options around re-boot, normal, networking, safe mode etc but all end up back to the screen being black but the pointer working but nothing else.
If I attempt to run reboot normally then it just keeps going around and around on its own trying to re-boot.
Anyone got any thoughts or suggestions I can try. Happy to pass on as much detail as I can....
Many thanks in advance for any and all help offered !
K
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