Laptop Question

[rpeAMP]

Hey,

I have a Sony Vaio laptop. It has really been great the past year but I am starting to have some problems with it. Some of the keys don't work some of the time. There doesn't appear to be anything in the keys preventing them from working physically, they just don't seem to work. I've already eliminated software problems- I've formatted and tried several OSs.

Also, sometimes the screen will just "frizz out" and scramble. After about 20 minutes (sometimes longer) of this, it returns to normal. Sometimes if I put pressure on the back of the screen it fixes the problem but not always.

Any ideas? Sony is virtually unreachable about stuff like this.

[lito pospos]

Seem you have lost contact problem in your notebook, which most common in display panel,
Bring it to your nearest service center or if you can open it and take the risk,,,, re-seat the cable/board but extra careful one miss,,,,,, bye,,,, bye.

[gogoose]

i got an old compaq armada MMX, and still know the screen problem. I can easily fix it by closing the notebook. When i open it again the screen works properly.

Have you tried to clean the keys??

[rmanet]

laptops aren't your typical box that you can open up and mess around with unless you really know what you're doing - how old is it and did you buy it new? I'd push hard on any type of warranty, etc. you can argue.

and have you been careless (i.e) do you really thinks you've spilled anything or have a problems with the keyboard and/or is it always just a few certain keys?

the display is a different matter, are you saying that by pressing the back (the top of the case) that sometimes it fixes your display problem?

you don't have alot of options here - doesn't sound like software

lito is right, it's probably time to take it to a laptop repair shop (make sure it's what they do the most, not just any shop - ask them if they do the repairs onsite instead of sending it elsewhere, because I ran into that once, asked politley where they were sending it, and saved money by going there instead) -

problem then of course is, after they charge for the diagnostic, is the laptop worth the cost of the repair cuz it's never cheap