Sony Vaio vpceb4x0e black screen on boot

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I have a Sony Vaio which I updated to Windows 10 around a month ago. Suddenly a few days ago, the graphics card drivers began to crash often, whilst watching videos or whilst playing a game.
I contacted Intel and AMD, but both didn't know what to do, advising me to contact Sony Support, who also haven't been helpful at all.
Since then, the laptop would boot but only a black screen would show up. I took the laptop apart, cleared out the fan with compressed air (as well as the rest of the motherboard etc) and put it back together. Suddenly it worked.
I used it for around 3 hours, saving documents to make sure they don't get lost if it happens again.
After those 3 hours I watched a video and the same thing happened: the laptop now won't show anything on boot, even with the HDD removed, and even when it boots off of a USB Flash Drive with Ubuntu Linux on it.
I then unplugged it and took out the battery, pressed and held the power button down for around a minute like some Internet forums said to do but nothing happened still.
I've also cleaned the RAM but I have no more RAM around the house to replace it with.
All help and support would be very much appreciated because I have done everything I know or have been able to find and nothing's happened. I don't mind wiping the entire HDD by the way: all important documents have been saved.
(Placed in display but I don't know if it's a display issue or a graphics card one, maybe even something to do with a corrupt BIOS. Not sure.)

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[viveknayyar007]

Hello julianaakkh

It looks like you need not to worry about the HDD as it begins functioning only after the laptop starts successfully and passes the Power On Self Test (POST) phase.

Since you have tried most of the things, I was wondering if you are comfortable in opening its back panel again and clearing out the CMOS? You can do so by taking the CMOS battery out and powering on the laptop or leaving it alone for 30 to 45 minutes without the battery.

Just in case, CMOS battery is round and looks like the ones used in wrist watches, but is bigger in size.

Once the laptop starts, you may want to go to the BIOS and configure it to use the Intel Graphics Card and see if the issue is resolved.

Feel free to revert if more assistance is needed.

 

[Guest]

Hello julianaakkh

It looks like you need not to worry about the HDD as it begins functioning only after the laptop starts successfully and passes the Power On Self Test (POST) phase.

Since you have tried most of the things, I was wondering if you are comfortable in opening its back panel again and clearing out the CMOS? You can do so by taking the CMOS battery out and powering on the laptop or leaving it alone for 30 to 45 minutes without the battery.

Just in case, CMOS battery is round and looks like the ones used in wrist watches, but is bigger in size.

Once the laptop starts, you may want to go to the BIOS and configure it to use the Intel Graphics Card and see if the issue is resolved.

Feel free to revert if more assistance is needed.

Thanks for the reply. I did some looking around, and I found out that the CMOS battery is located behind the motherboard.
I don't know how to take out the motherboard and don't want to damage anything, so I'd rather not.,. any other ideas??
A reminder it seemed like the graphics card drivers were crashing after a month of installing Windows 10.
Thanks again =)