topic Re: Screen went black in PCs & Accessories

Screen went black

bmccruz — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 21:53:42 GMT

Hello i have a vaio FE11s for about 3 months but today when i was surfing the web my screen went dark and all i can see was the mouse icon. After hibernating and start again everything was fine... any ideia about what it was? ... was pretty strange

Thanks

Re: Screen went black

bmccruz — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 22:09:42 GMT

after i posted this thread i open opera browser again and puff black screen again...

Re: Screen went black

masterix — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 23:25:13 GMT

Hi bmccruz,

Something similar happened to me two times when I was changing settings in vaio power management. After applying changes my screen went black (no even mouse pointer) and computer stopped responding --> hard shut down and restart --> like nothing happened so I didn't bother too much.

No idea what happened...

All I think is that some bad experiences I've had with my A417M for £1300 shouldn't happened... or isn't vaio what I thought it is?

If somebody know, please let us know...

Thanks

Re: Screen went black

kee-lo_ — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 10:53:30 GMT

This is due to Java, you need to reinstall Java

Re: Screen went black

fabio81 — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:48:14 GMT

This is due to Java, you need to reinstall Java

I reinstalled Java toooooooooooooo many times and it simply doesn't work!

Re: Screen went black

masterix — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 22:16:54 GMT

This is due to Java, you need to reinstall Java


I reinstalled Java toooooooooooooo many times and it simply doesn't work!

The same here

Re: Screen went black

Blencogo — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 23:16:20 GMT

Contact Vaio-Link e-support.

Re: Screen went black

fabio81 — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:08:37 GMT

Contact Vaio-Link e-support.

As I said in the other post... e-support does not work!
The automatic credentials sender says it will send me userid+password within 15 minutes, but no mail has arrived yet (since yesterday afternoon).

Re: Screen went black

saeed83 — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 16:03:34 GMT

am having the same problem with my VGNBX194 VP

i send my laptop back to Sony Style Europe and they were unable to find any problems

are u still facing the same problem or wht ??

Re: Screen went black

Blencogo — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:04:43 GMT

As I said in the other post... e-support does not work!

That is the problem when you splatter posts on the same subject all over the place.

Have you tried contacting Vaio-Link by telephone?

Re: Screen went black

HateBreeder — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:18:48 GMT

Maybe the vga went too hot!
What's your vga temperature?
It may be a virus.....scan your computer!
You may need to reinstall chipset drivers of your vga!
It could be many things......but you should ask for professional opinion!
Call sony service!

Re: Screen went black

fabio81 — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:07:59 GMT

That is the problem when you splatter posts on the same subject all over the place.

The real problem with this forum is that it's so badly organized that posts are easily missed and so you should post several times.

Moreover, I opened NO new posts... I always replayed in other posts and since there are several posts talking about the same problem I replied in all the pertinent ones!

Please, stop considering me a splatter/spammer!

There are thousands of useless posts on this forum, while I am posting for a real and severe problem which impacts working activities as well!

Now the real stuff! I managed to get my credential for the e-support, but the answer was not encouraging: they cannot do anything with 3rd party software and suggested to use the latest updates (I'm currently using).

I believe the problem is withing Sony nVidia drivers...

Re: Screen went black

fabio81 — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:17:08 GMT

Maybe the vga went too hot!
What's your vga temperature?
It may be a virus.....scan your computer!
You may need to reinstall chipset drivers of your vga!
It could be many things......but you should ask for professional opinion!
Call sony service!

Thank you! It's not a problem of temperature (it happens only with Java applications). I think it's not a virus (I checked the system) and a lot of users have the same problem in the same conditions.

I will try to reinstall video driver. I've already contacted the service.

Thanks again!

Re: Screen went black

madmattt999 — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 07:19:35 GMT

i have a FS 215 M my screen went black as well. I dont know exactly what it was, but i believe it was a virus, so i erased the OS and put another one on. Never had it again

Re: Screen went black

ilaureyns — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 08:15:46 GMT

Hello i use a VGN-FE11S and i had lots of times a black screen but that's because i use a lot of times very graphical programs . And when it goes black it's for two reasons :
a) the java that you're useing isn't good so when you start any java application it gets black , i recomment you do the following thing go to sun.com and download the JRE 1.6 beta version sometimes you can't uninstall the JRE1.5 version or it gives problems , it's a problem of JAVA a bug or something

b) if your screen just flashes like for 1 second black and then returns back to the normal screen it's because of the interrupts , maybe it's to much to process it from the CPU or there is a conflict between the two cpu's i don't know , ask the engineers who developed it

Re: Screen went black

fabio81 — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 08:40:05 GMT

i have a FS 215 M my screen went black as well. I dont know exactly what it was, but i believe it was a virus, so i erased the OS and put another one on. Never had it again

Maybe, after erasing the OS you did not install Java, so the problem does not occur anymore... but I need Java for my work!

the java that you're useing isn't good so when you start any java application it gets black , i recomment you do the following thing go to sun.com and download the JRE 1.6 beta version sometimes you can't uninstall the JRE1.5 version or it gives problems , it's a problem of JAVA a bug or something

The first suitable solution! Thank you very much! I'll try the 1.6 beta a.s.a.p.!

Re: Screen went black

fabio81 — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 09:37:26 GMT

I've tried Java 1.6 beta 2 JDK + JRE and it works fine!

Thank you very much, ilaureyns!