topic VGN-AR41S blank screen and 3 beeps? Please help urgently! in PCs & Accessories https://community.sony.dk/t5/pcs-accessories/vgn-ar41s-blank-screen-and-3-beeps-please-help-urgently/m-p/342595#M21812 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>My Vaio lap top stopped working and presented a blank screen. I can turn it off by pressing the on switch and holding it down. When I turn it on again, it makes 1 long beep followed by 2 short beeps and presents a blank screen. I have looked for help and I am pointed towards problems with the NViDIA graphics or display. Is there anything I can do to access my files and to fix this? Many thanks if you can help.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:33:04 GMT JanisDen 2012-07-11T09:33:04Z VGN-AR41S blank screen and 3 beeps? Please help urgently! https://community.sony.dk/t5/pcs-accessories/vgn-ar41s-blank-screen-and-3-beeps-please-help-urgently/m-p/342595#M21812 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>My Vaio lap top stopped working and presented a blank screen. I can turn it off by pressing the on switch and holding it down. When I turn it on again, it makes 1 long beep followed by 2 short beeps and presents a blank screen. I have looked for help and I am pointed towards problems with the NViDIA graphics or display. Is there anything I can do to access my files and to fix this? Many thanks if you can help.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:33:04 GMT https://community.sony.dk/t5/pcs-accessories/vgn-ar41s-blank-screen-and-3-beeps-please-help-urgently/m-p/342595#M21812 JanisDen 2012-07-11T09:33:04Z Re: VGN-AR41S blank screen and 3 beeps? Please help urgently! https://community.sony.dk/t5/pcs-accessories/vgn-ar41s-blank-screen-and-3-beeps-please-help-urgently/m-p/342596#M21813 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;">Hi JanisDen and welcome.</SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;">The Beep Code suggests a Video problem with the nVidia 8600M GT graphics chip.</SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;">You can get a repairer to look for a poor connection but it is likely that this is a known fault that has plagued nVidia GPUs from that era caused by overheating.<BR /></SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;">Unfortunately, your model is not one of those that Sony recognise as having a chip coming from a defective batch, so a free repair is not available. You are probably outside the 4 year extended guarantee period anyway.&nbsp;&nbsp; If you Google for "Reballing", you will find several repairers offering a repair service but I don't think a permanent repair is guaranteed without replacing the motherboard.<BR /></SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;">I presume you see nothing on the screen - not even the Vaio Logo spash screen?</SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;">Recovering your data from the hard drives will also be complex as you have 2 hard drives which are written to at the same time with a stripe of data going to drive 1 and the next stripe to drive 2.&nbsp; Both discs are in RAID 0 configuration and you will need a computer with an Intel Raid controller to decrypt data on the drives.</SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;">Sorry I can't give you any good news - have a word with a repairer for an estimate of the cost of repair and likelyhood of a satisfactory outcome and take it from there.</SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"><img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://community.sony.dk/html/@8A5BDCECEE2E5AB683F2BDAA500F2036/images/smilies/035.png" alt=":slight_frown:" title=":slight_frown:" /><BR /></SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"><BR /></SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:02:18 GMT https://community.sony.dk/t5/pcs-accessories/vgn-ar41s-blank-screen-and-3-beeps-please-help-urgently/m-p/342596#M21813 Blencogo 2012-07-11T19:02:18Z