Recent content by pjfarr

I just noticed something I didn't before. When the laptop lid is up, the laptop screen is on and garbled. When I press the "Sleep" button the laptop screen suddenly clears up and shows a perfect picture in the 2 seconds before it goes off into sleep mode.

Thanks for your response. I could boot into the BIOS, but the screen was garbled there too and I couldn't tell what was what and so just booted into Windows (Vista, BTW). The Windows "Welcome Music" played through the TV's speakers. The key combo on the VAIO is Fn+F8 to go into external...

My father-in-law gave us his old VAIO laptop because the screen was garbled and he didn't want to pay to fix it. We hooked it up to our LCD TV (via VGA — I think...that's the cable with the blue connectors, right?) and the picture was perfect (not garbled like on the laptop's screen). So we've...