[ILUG] Advice on laptop BIOS failure

[conor at discuskeeping.com]

Quoting Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie>:

> I'm wondering if any of the ILUG geeks can suggest a solution
> to a problem I'm having with my ancient Sony Picturebook (C1VFK).
> The hard disk on this recently went wrong,
> but after replacing it I no longer get the SONY logo -
> the screen lights up when the powert-button is pressed,
> but nothing else happens.

Remove the HDD, does it POST?

Conor.