Hi there.  I hope someone can help!!  I had my TR in sleep for a period of time and had a CD in the computer from the last time I was using it.  Well I left it in that stage for about a week and my battery died.  I didn’t know if my battery was dead or not but I went to wake it up and the computer briefly light up the power and wireless lights and then died.  At that point I figured that the battery had died so I waited till I re-plugged it back in before I turned the TR back on.  Once I did, and touched the power button, what I get is the power, wireless lights, the hard drive very briefly clicks and I NEVER get a screen to turn on. I have pulled batteries, pulled ram, stuck a paperclip in the rest hole at the button (I hope it’s a reset hole!! ) and I am basically STUCK!!  I also have tried booting off the CD and when I put in a CD the CD revs up and then back down. I cannot go into Bios by pressing F2, I get no sounds, HD movements, screen or anything!  Is there a MASTER REST or something to get this guy to come back to life???

Any help would be appreciated…

Thanks.

exact symptoms like my TR1 when it crashed for good.. unable to boot, no LCD display, everything just freeze, can’t access the bios either.

Sent the unit to Sony for repair, they replaced the motherboard and HDD.

FYI

Well, the unit has been charging for the last day and I now have a full battery but the same exact symptoms.  :-(  It seems that it is DEAD!!  I just can’t believe letting the battery die down would do such harm!

Any other suggestions if any would be great!

did it really cause my letting the batter ran out? or other causes like heat?

I don’t know how heat could have done it since it was off and not in the car for the last week.

I am completly lost on why this could have happened.  Well I guess I will have to send it back to Sony. I hope they don’t replace the HD, I had just put some info on the system that I didn’t have a chance to backup.

Good luck, let us know what Sony says happened so we all don’t do the same thing.

Erik

Mine is taking a long time to load up also.

[quote author=“macmaster”]I don’t know how heat could have done it since it was off and not in the car for the last week.

I am completly lost on why this could have happened.  Well I guess I will have to send it back to Sony. I hope they don’t replace the HD, I had just put some info on the system that I didn’t have a chance to backup.

Sony will format your hard drive no matter what the problem is.  I sent my laptop in for a problem with the part where the cord attaches to the laptop and they reformatted my hard drive. 

Try leaving it on with just those lights, I sometimes leave my laptop on for 10 minutes with just those lights and then it finally comes on.  Try to backup as much as possible too!!

Well I appreciate the suggestions. Unfortunately I have left the computer on OVER NIGHT and all I had was just those lights and still no system boot. :-(  Also in regards to backup, since I have no way of getting the internal 1.8” HD to connect to anything else I am not able to back anything up.  :-(  Especially with a computer that just does NOT want to boot anything!

So I have taken a different approach, I just purchased Sony’s ONSITE 3 year warranty.  and I am going to wait a week and process a claim. And instead of having to send in my laptop to someone that will PROBABLY format my HD, I will have someone come to the office and try to replace the parts that are causing the problem. and hopefully I can convince that formatting the HD is NOT the solution. (I think it has something to do with the logic board)

Now the other BIG question.  I have the FAMOUS internal BT module upgrade installed that worked like a charm until last week when the TR died.  Should I remove it BEFORE the service guy comes over or leave it in and hope they don’t bitch…. I’m thinking f removing it to not create any possible issues.

[quote author=“porsche911turbo”][quote author=“macmaster”]I don’t know how heat could have done it since it was off and not in the car for the last week.

I am completly lost on why this could have happened.  Well I guess I will have to send it back to Sony. I hope they don’t replace the HD, I had just put some info on the system that I didn’t have a chance to backup.

Sony will format your hard drive no matter what the problem is.  I sent my laptop in for a problem with the part where the cord attaches to the laptop and they reformatted my hard drive. 

Try leaving it on with just those lights, I sometimes leave my laptop on for 10 minutes with just those lights and then it finally comes on.  Try to backup as much as possible too!!

[quote author=“macmaster”]

Now the other BIG question.  I have the FAMOUS internal BT module upgrade installed that worked like a charm until last week when the TR died.  Should I remove it BEFORE the service guy comes over or leave it in and hope they don’t bitch…. I’m thinking f removing it to not create any possible issues.

DEFINITELY! Remove it before they touch your unit.  If not Sony might claim u did an illegal upgrade which causes damage to your TR!

Just fix it back after they repaired you TR

[quote author=“alvino”][quote author=“macmaster”]

Now the other BIG question.  I have the FAMOUS internal BT module upgrade installed that worked like a charm until last week when the TR died.  Should I remove it BEFORE the service guy comes over or leave it in and hope they don’t bitch…. I’m thinking f removing it to not create any possible issues.

DEFINITELY! Remove it before they touch your unit.  If not Sony might claim u did an illegal upgrade which causes damage to your TR!

Just fix it back after they repaired you TR

Yeah don’t leave it in for that reason or the fact that if they think its not repairable they might send you a different one…

Erik

Sorry I forgot to log-in ... it was me with the above story with TR5 ...

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