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My new laptop is verklempt
Feb. 17th, 2008 11:19 pmUsing my two-month-old Sony VAIO laptop at a café today, checking my e-mail when I see a notification that some automatic updates have been installed and a restart is required. I click OK and wait as the machine shuts down. After a minute or so of no apparent activity, I press the power button to reboot.
And the machine goes through the normal loading process as far as the arrow cursor showing on screen, then shuts off and starts back at the beginning. Lather, rinse, repeat. Even holding down F8 and trying a restart in Safe Mode does not work. And of course, there is no install disc that came with the unit.
Tried making a Vista Recovery disk on the only working computer in the house, my Mac. No soap. So I either have to shell out for an extra copy of Vista just to get the repair features, or shell out to pay someone else to repair it.
$650 worth of computer is, for the moment, a rather expensive paperweight...which means not only no portable Internet, but no Skype to call the Songbird with as the headset only seems to work on the VAIO. All advice welcome.
And the machine goes through the normal loading process as far as the arrow cursor showing on screen, then shuts off and starts back at the beginning. Lather, rinse, repeat. Even holding down F8 and trying a restart in Safe Mode does not work. And of course, there is no install disc that came with the unit.
Tried making a Vista Recovery disk on the only working computer in the house, my Mac. No soap. So I either have to shell out for an extra copy of Vista just to get the repair features, or shell out to pay someone else to repair it.
$650 worth of computer is, for the moment, a rather expensive paperweight...which means not only no portable Internet, but no Skype to call the Songbird with as the headset only seems to work on the VAIO. All advice welcome.
