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Hi, my Sony Vaio CS190 has a bad memory socket. I came with 2G in slot 1 and 1G in slot 2. Recently it had started shutting down on its own whenever it felt like it. It would usually reboot okay. However, yesterday it wouldn't boot, it would try and stop. Green light on, hard drive light...

I had this same problem. It turned out to be the second memory slot. If you have more than one memory card installed try booting with only one installed. They are interchangeable and so are the slots so try with one memory card in one slot and if that doesn't work try it in the other slot...