My friend's stopped functioning properly. This is the only information I was able to retrieve (Sony Vaio PCG-K33 Intel PENTIUM 4) about the laptop. Whenever he starts his laptop its shows the logo and then it blinks like its on to go to Windown XP logo loading but the screen just turns off to black yet the laptop is loading and fully functioning. He purchased the laptop about two months ago LOCALLY from someone else and didn't KNOW that BIOS Setup has a password set which he doesn't know, but I think its accessible if password was available. If pressing F8 then the options of entering Safe Mode, Networking mode, etc. comes up but whenever I pick one the screen turns off again. No new software or hardware installed.

Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

- Ultimatumhi there,
the problem you have here is a dud screen which sadly is expensive to replace ,there is a sure fire way to find out thou,do you have a monitor you can hook up to laptop?,if so try it and restart,as for the password you mention these are normally left blank so just tap ENTER there and you should be away.
good luck and let us know how it,s going.Quote from: treslek on February 14, 2008, 04:10:41 PM

hi there,
the problem you have here is a dud screen which sadly is expensive to replace ,there is a sure fire way to find out thou,do you have a monitor you can hook up to laptop?,if so try it and restart,as for the password you mention these are normally left blank so just tap enter there and you should be away.
good luck and let us know how it,s going.

P.S. If in fact the laptop has been BIOS protected by a password and the seller does not have the password contact the manuf. and be prepared to pull out your wallet.