New VAIO

[bajan]

Hi - newbie with a recently purchased VAIO VGN A317S.

It's a great laptop, but I've just noticed that the screen flashes off and on, despite the fact that it is connected to AC power.

Has anyone encountered a similar problem? Any comments would be appreciated (sorry my first post isn't a positive one).

[bajan]

I think this thread has helped my problem:

http://www.club-vaio.com/clubvaio/mvnforum/viewthread?thread=26934

[rich912]

Hi bajan and welcome to the forum.

Sorry to hear that you are experiencing problems with your notebook at such an early stage. As you have gathered from the other thread, it is most probably a hardware problem and needs to be looked at by Sony.

One model, and I can¿t remember which, has a software patch that corrects a similar problem to this but unfortunately it is not the A317S.
Best of luck with Sony Support ¿ let us know how you get on, as this sort of information is always of help to other users.

[Eugenepang]

hmm do you means when it start up? or after it had been on for awhile?..
mine will flick on and off at start up.. press on button, the screen is on with the vaio screen up then the screen off again for 1 sec then on again with the windows screen up...

[jammold]

Eugene: get yours looked at too. It should NOT do that.

[kee-lo_]

Agreed, too many VAIOs doing it now