Laptop won't boot - but power lights showing...

jimmys | 21:05 Sat 28th Feb 2009 | Computers

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Hi, I have a Sony VAIO VGN-NR21J/S, which worked with no problems until a few weeks ago.

Now, about 50% of the time, maybe more, the computer won't boot properly.

I turn it on with the power button, the battery power light and the standby light (green and orange) both light up, but nothing else happens.

If I take the battery out and then put it back again, it seems (more often than not, but not always) to solve the problem and the laptop boots up.

I don't know if it's a coincidence, but I installed AVG around the same time as this problem started. Previously, I'd had Avast (nothing off-the-shelf like Norton etc).

It's really frustrating, this not knowing what to do with it. Thanks Jim