So I got home from work yesterday and pulled the laptop out of sleep mode and ran a few web browses just fine was chatting with friends on aim ... left the house to do some shopping and come back few hours later and the thing was off.  Figured maybe somehow the battery ran out of juice so I plug it in and hit the power button and the power LED and Battery LED light up but nothing comes on at all.  Remove the battery and try again with the same results.  I can get the lights to come off by disconnecting battery and power but when I try to power it up weather its plugged in or on the battery the poewr and battery leds light with no reaction other than that.  Anyone have a suggestion as to what I can look into replaceing?

Have you tried the reset button?  I believe it’s located near the windows sticker on the bottom.

Remove all power including the battery and press very gently on the reset.  Then reapply power and see if that works.

[quote author=“AndyMac”]Have you tried the reset button?  I believe it’s located near the windows sticker on the bottom.

Remove all power including the battery and press very gently on the reset.  Then reapply power and see if that works.

yes or else you should just call sony up. How much time has it been since you’ve got this lappy ?

Didnt know the laptop had a reset button guess Ill look for it when I get home, and unfortuneatly I bought it used but I believe its about 6 months old give or take a month so not sure if they will be any help to me or not.  Was so late last night when I got in I just said my few curse words and hit the sack so didnt look at it too much last night.

same here…just found out after reading this post. Any idea if pressing it would also wipe out the BIOS password? If it does, there’s not much point in having a BIOS password

I am glad it worked for you!  Don’t know what caused it.  I have had my TR3A for six months without that problem.

[quote author=“AndyMac”]Have you tried the reset button?  I believe it’s located near the windows sticker on the bottom.

Remove all power including the battery and press very gently on the reset.  Then reapply power and see if that works.

I was wondering what that indent was for, lol.

HELP!!!! I have the same problem ... or similar!
my TR5 switches on but wouldn’t boot from the disk or the recovery DVD
The restet button did not work for me. Any idea before I bring it to Sony?
Thanks a lot for your help

What’s the error message you get when booting up from the hard drive and recovery DVD?

sorry ... it was me ... forgot to log-in. Just want to add that the HD light goes on for about two seconds and then goes off. The green power led is on and tha yello battery light also, that’s all! I guess it’s a power management Hardware problem.

I ran in to similar problems a while ago, I tried the reset button and it didn’t work for me too. So I decided there must be something causing it to now load. I took out the memory and reinsert it back, and bam it worked again. Try that, if that doens’t help try opening the comp and reconnect everything.

this shit happened to me today :(

while in bootsequence the screen remains black with following “operating system not found”

anyone having an idea?

ps: also tried to boot up with the recovery cds, but then it says “hdd cannot be found”

:(  :(  :(

the hdd might be dead

ill try to plug the hdd to an pc and well see what happens

it always happens unexpected :(