topic SZ2VP/X HDD dies after BSOD in PCs & Accessories https://community.sony.ua/t5/pcs-accessories/sz2vp-x-hdd-dies-after-bsod/m-p/168857#M48116 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P> Hello All</P><P>I recently ran in to trouble with my notebook in the following way,</P><P>Was on a trian with my 3G dongle in a USB slot and happily playing on some game. As i approached my stop I shut the game down, removed the 3G dongle and then shut down my notebook in the normal way. I then received a blue screen of death and a physical memory dump....but unnoticed to me my PSU had become disconnected and the notebook power ran out during the memory dump.</P><P>The next day i started the note book, the vaio screen came up but then no operating system could be found. In the Bios no HDD is detected, but I cannot select anything like auto detect or SATA settings etc...my HDD may be kapput but I have a feeling that my bios is corrupt. I need to flash it and get the notebook back to default settings, I have recent bios on a flashstick but have never flashed a bios outside windows.</P><P>Any help greatly appreciated</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:52:53 GMT redmanna 2010-09-06T18:52:53Z SZ2VP/X HDD dies after BSOD https://community.sony.ua/t5/pcs-accessories/sz2vp-x-hdd-dies-after-bsod/m-p/168857#M48116 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P> Hello All</P><P>I recently ran in to trouble with my notebook in the following way,</P><P>Was on a trian with my 3G dongle in a USB slot and happily playing on some game. As i approached my stop I shut the game down, removed the 3G dongle and then shut down my notebook in the normal way. I then received a blue screen of death and a physical memory dump....but unnoticed to me my PSU had become disconnected and the notebook power ran out during the memory dump.</P><P>The next day i started the note book, the vaio screen came up but then no operating system could be found. In the Bios no HDD is detected, but I cannot select anything like auto detect or SATA settings etc...my HDD may be kapput but I have a feeling that my bios is corrupt. I need to flash it and get the notebook back to default settings, I have recent bios on a flashstick but have never flashed a bios outside windows.</P><P>Any help greatly appreciated</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:52:53 GMT https://community.sony.ua/t5/pcs-accessories/sz2vp-x-hdd-dies-after-bsod/m-p/168857#M48116 redmanna 2010-09-06T18:52:53Z