topic VAIO gate - crashes & takes out Laptop in PCs & Accessories https://community.sony.si/t5/pcs-accessories/vaio-gate-crashes-takes-out-laptop/m-p/46180#M49686 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi ,<BR />I bought a Viao VGN-Z51WG in December, it came with Win 7 and all was ok, then recently the Vaio gate at the top of my screen started to vanish after a couple of hours of the laptop being on.<BR /><BR />When this happens, I could not restart it by clicking on the menu link, in addition it completely messes up my screen.<BR /><BR />i.e. when I am typing an email in Outlook, it starts to put blank 'splotches' on the screen and then the words I am typing appear on the top of the screen, whilst the email remains in the middle of the screen. <BR /><BR />The only way round this is to reboot my laptop, which is a pain, unfortunately I bought the laptop in T5 Heathrow so returning it is proving problematic...<BR /><BR />Any help or thoughts would be appreciated.<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:14:09 GMT chinashaw 2010-02-09T18:14:09Z VAIO gate - crashes & takes out Laptop https://community.sony.si/t5/pcs-accessories/vaio-gate-crashes-takes-out-laptop/m-p/46180#M49686 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi ,<BR />I bought a Viao VGN-Z51WG in December, it came with Win 7 and all was ok, then recently the Vaio gate at the top of my screen started to vanish after a couple of hours of the laptop being on.<BR /><BR />When this happens, I could not restart it by clicking on the menu link, in addition it completely messes up my screen.<BR /><BR />i.e. when I am typing an email in Outlook, it starts to put blank 'splotches' on the screen and then the words I am typing appear on the top of the screen, whilst the email remains in the middle of the screen. <BR /><BR />The only way round this is to reboot my laptop, which is a pain, unfortunately I bought the laptop in T5 Heathrow so returning it is proving problematic...<BR /><BR />Any help or thoughts would be appreciated.<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:14:09 GMT https://community.sony.si/t5/pcs-accessories/vaio-gate-crashes-takes-out-laptop/m-p/46180#M49686 chinashaw 2010-02-09T18:14:09Z