Ok here is the deal...my friend has a sony vaio laptop...they said it was a pcg5x20..I am not sure...well what happened was they shut down the computer and didnt let it shutdown all the way and closed the comp...well when they tried to boot the comp a day later the screen doesnt come up...the computer boots up and if they load a cd in it will play...so the question is..did the comp somehow go into standby mode or somethin? I have never delt with a laptop so this is out of my league...I had them pull the battery for 10 mins and that didnt do anything...any help would be appreciated.

So anybody know what is wrong?

mine just stopped working as well, but i know the reason, the screen sprung a leak.... would anyone happen to know whats in a laptop screen so I know whether i am gunna die or not from touching it...

The light the is inside of the laptop probably burnt out. That would really suck. Try this: have them turn it on and shine a flashlight or other high intensity light on it. If you can see the desktop faintly, its probably the light. With my old laptop you could always see the desktop and whatever software i was running if you held it at the rightr angle with a light on it. If you cant see it, your screen might have died or something. Check out ebay for replacements.

well, in dim light, i could see the desktop a little bit.... but there was also all this liquid that had like i greasy feel to it all around the laptop...

Okay... I've worked on a few laptops...

First thing you can try: Take that bad-boy apart... the display connects to the logic board via a little ribbon cable. Make sure it's plugged in snug.

Second (and the most likely). The graphics portions of Logic boards are fairly weak. I replaced a crapload of laptops that the graphics chip died on (most of the standard OEM laptops still have the graphics on the board... it goes down, the enitre board is shot 'cause you can't replace just that one thing unless you can find a replacement chip... and that's easier said than done, and you'd need to be pretty handy with a soldering iron).

Now then, if you're looking to find out if something else is wrong, you should have a monitor "out" that you can plug into to test it out...

Good luck with it!

This might help... took this pic back in my computer repair days.

That's the inside of an old IBM Thinkpad, but the thing I circled in red was where the display plugged in.

Good luck.

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Well they told me they plugged the laptop into a monitor and it didnt work...I will have them check what you guys suggested but I think it just burnt out on them.

IF there is greasy liquid around the screen then the screen is cracked somwhere and the Liquid Crystal solution has leaked out, thus it is useless. Someone must have dropped or squashed your laptop at some point in time. Good luck spending $1000+ to get it repaired. My VAIO PCG-F630 had that happen once and it costs $1300 to replace the screen.

uhhh there is greasy liquid around mine, and my laptop has just been sitting on a desk, no one has gone near it....

edit: is the liquid crystal solution dangerous to humans?

btw, maybe my cat took a swing at it

Swan, I wouldn't suggest tasting it...

AMD: Yeah, when-ever a laptop came in with ONLY the display messed up, it kind of sucked to tell them it'd cost $1200.00 to fix their $900.00 laptop...

Even going through a part salvager, our cost (repair place) was something like 800+shipping, and we had to send them the screen being replaced or it was an additional $400.00 charge.

well that severly sucks, i was just fixin it up for my mom so she could use it in the kitchen to pay bills and stuff... I had it all hooked into the wireless network... then this happens god dang...

edit: btw, its a somewhat old Compaq laptop with 60mb of RAM, and a AMD K6 600Mhz

First off the laptop model number you gave us is bogus. I cant find it on any search engine.

Binde83,

It would be best if you started your own thread with your laptop problem. If i didnt stumble onto this thread i wouldnt have seen your call for help. This way you'll get more exposure to your problem and someone may have the answer your looking for.........

Also when you create your own new thread....dont forget to add the make and model.

Just like cars all latops arent the same......