# Notebook doesn't start

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/notebook-doesnt-start/66025>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [October 1, 2004, 4:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/notebook-doesnt-start/66025 "2004-10-01T16:35:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![hsadan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7bcc69/32.png) [@hsadan](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hsadan)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 4:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/notebook-doesnt-start/66025/1 "2004-10-01T16:35:57Z")

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Help. My dad’s Sony Vaio suddenly busted or something!

Now when switched on, it shows the Sony logo for a couple of seconds, then a blinking underscore (\_), then it restarts and shows the Sony logo again, and keeps repeating the process.

any ideas how I could fix this? i doubt the cds given will work, because it doesn’t even get to booting. also, I need to salvage the files inside ☹

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 4:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/notebook-doesnt-start/66025/2 "2004-10-01T16:41:36Z")

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hmm… borrow a friends laptop and shove the hard drive inside? I think they’re compatible…

Ring up sony if it really isn’t booting (ie no way to boot off a floppy or cdrom) - they’re the only people who could fix a problem like that 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 4:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/notebook-doesnt-start/66025/3 "2004-10-01T16:58:49Z")

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ah ok, thanks for the idea. i’ll try that tomorrow (it’s past midnight now)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 8:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/notebook-doesnt-start/66025/4 "2004-10-01T20:48:54Z")

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when it’s “booting up” try to get into the bios.

try hitting delete, all the F-keys, shift + F10, or escape.

if you do manage to get into the bios, set your computer to boot from cd first and pop in a recovery disk.

-teet