20 Most Recent Sony VAIO VGN-FS742/W Notebook - Page 3 Questions & Answers

Pop the little cover plate from just above the keyboard. You might have to remove a couple of screws that are located in the battery compartment. Once you get the cover plate off, there are 3 or 4 screws holding the keyboard in. Remove screws, and carefully unplug the ribbon cable. Install new, and you are on your way.

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Before assuming the worse, let us assume it is a damaged DC jack. This can be replaced by expert personnel and it costs less than a motherboard replacement.

Try to remove the battery, remove AC adapter, and press and hold power button for 45 sec. reinsert battery, and Plug and try again, if that doesn't solve it, you may need to try to change memory first, (cheapest) or the motherboard or CPU.

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Ok what you need to do with that issue is let the laptop go into bios mode and then look for the boot options and see what is checked there. You may have it checked to startup with windows bios and if that's the case then you need to change it in bios mode. If you have any other questions please let me know!

please,i need the drivers for this model

It is always is. CMOS battery for replacement.

ya u can update it through vaio update option in your laptop...

Plug in the projector and then press the FN key and while holding it in, press the key with a monitor on it. Probably f4 or f5.

try an system restore from b4 the problem and then remove mcAfee, you can also remove some windows components and updates. when you got to the windows updates after removal it should re-install what it needs.

Well, according to http://www.clearanceclub.com/depot/quelle_showroom.cgi?sku=4768 your laptop has a 80GB Enhanced IDE drive, so you'd be looking for any 2.5' IDE laptop drive.
Any computer store will be able to sell you one.

That said, you mention your hard drive is fried, but you also say you want to take the old media files off it? Well, if the hard drive is fried, there is nothing coming off it because..well.. its fried.
But if the drive works you dont need a new one. But sounds like you do need to format and reinstall the Operating System.

That's a common problem, it's not hard to fix. You'll just have to swap it out. You might be able to find a guide somewhere online but if you just use common sense you should be able to just take the laptop apart and do a swap. Just pay close attention to HOW you got it apart. Ebay is the cheapest place for replacement parts and the K33 is one of the best Sony Laptops ever made btw.

try this: Download free program combofix and run. When finish you will see all bad files what he detected and fixed.

Take out your memory and reinsert it, sounds like your memory got knocked around

hmmm... need to see if this is from the router end or the problem is your laptop. phone company replaced the router-- did they stick around long enough to see you connect to it with your laptop?

how long has the connection worked properly between the wireless laptop and your basement router?

can you visit a starbucks or whatnot to see if you can surf with your latop (i.e. it's not your laptop wireless card)

can you get a friend to come over to try your router with their wireless laptop?

what if you stay just in teh basement -- does the connection drop at all?

Sorry the laptops fried, the best thing you can do now is remove the hard drive and get your data from it if it still works.
buy a new laptop and sell yours for spares on ebay

Kind regards

Yes it does come out at the top. I have seen this article and thought it might help you. The first 7 steps show how to remove the keyboard..
http://www.mikeshardware.com/howtos/sonyhdswap/

If you only erased it, you can simply use the keyboard shortcut CTRL+Z, if the deletion was permanent, there is nothing you can do.

Do you the Windows user suffer Error Code 0xc0000185 on your PC or laptop. Well, this is a blue screen of a ***** error note telling me that your boot configuration info is missing (Error Code 0xc0000185) This BSOD error code issues with a note - The Boot Configuration Data for your PC is missing some required information. Causes of Error Code 0xc0000185:- 1. Suffer a cable attachment joining to your system and the hard drive. 2. Defective or missing boot files. 3. The disk drive gets damaged. 4. Wrong disk drive. Solutions of Error Code 0xc0000185:- 1: Do sure that Wire is Correctly Connected [Only for PC] 2: Automated Repair 3: Check Hard Disk for Errors 4: Repair your System to Fix Error 0xc0000185 Full Solution - Error Code 0xc0000185

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