Recent content by course2kid

Scottray, Thanks for the quick reply. Right after I posted, I once again disassembled my laptop and, after a lot of fiddling around, I decided to swap out the power button. It's a four wire device with some LEDs and a microswitch on a very small PCB. It plugs into the "Media Board" which, in...

I have a Sony Vaio VGN-FW170J laptop with a weird problem. One day it will be operating flawlessly and the next day it won't turn on. This is definitely not a powerjack or AC adapter issue - the motherboard always has the 19 VDC input as verified by DVM. Here is the weird part... when the...

I'm at my wits end- My Sony Vaio VGN-FW170J won't turn on at all. None of the LEDS light up (power switch, power, hard drive, Wireless). I checked the power jack at the mother board and it's getting 19.5 VDC to the board. As suggested on some YouTube videos, I sequentially disconnected...