20 Most Recent Sony VGN-CR220E/L Notebook Questions & Answers

If you connect an external monitor to the video port on your laptop, power up the monitor first and then boor up the laptop and the video information will automatically display on the external monitor. This will indicate the on-board video is functioning OK and the problem is the video connection to the LCD screen. The video connector from the LCD screen may need reconnecting to the motherboard to restore video information on the LCD screen.

You need to bring it in to a repair shop as soon as possible. If it is leaking liquid, that liquid is toxic and shouldn't be left where kids or animals can accidentally get into it. It shouldn't cost too much to have the screen replaced at a local repair shop...

Laptop monitors are fragile, there really isn't a fix for this short of getting a new laptop

If you're requesting the driver you can find it at the following link: http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/swu-list.pl?mdl=VGN-CR220EL

It could be your baclight that provides the power to the lamp in your screen, it can be the lamp as well, or could be an electrical fault with your motherboard, wrong voltage output to the inverter / faulty cable between the mbo and the inverter board. If it is the screen you can easly get one of ebay, there is a model number on the back, starting usualy with two letters and three numbers (those are in fact your screen dimensions) and then sometimes other letters/numbers + leters and numbers in brackets, eg. LTN154XB-L01 or LP156WH2 (TL) (C1). Accordingly you can ebay or google your laptop model number and type inverter or read the part number of the inverter (small ractgular board fitted below the screen). Not sure how to help if that is any other fault.

Hi,

Since the Sony Vaio VGN-CR220E works except that the display is dark, then it would be safe to assume that it is only the LCD display part that is the issue. Often LCD display (of laptops) are working but only that you can not see the actual display. One way to verify is to shine a flashlight at an oblique angle to the screen, semblance or part of the desktop could be seen s what you have done. If the desktop could be seen (albeit very very dark background) then it could either be the CCF Lamps (cold cathode florescent) or the inverter that powers the lamps.

Often, the defective component would be the inverter. It is relatively easy to replace the inverted. It is sometimes more difficult and challenging cracking open the casing of the display panel of the laptop than replacing the inverter. Additionally, inverters are readily available online. It is also not surprising that inverters for other brands/models would also be used in your Sony Vaio VGN-CR220E .

Of course another possibility is that there is just a loose connection or a cold solder in the LCD panel display's circuit boards.

This would be a good place to start for inverter boards. This is a nice tutorial if you are considering a DIY.

Hope this be of initial help/idea. Pls post back how things turned up or should you need additional information.

Good luck and kind regards.

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The LCD screen is bad, or the video cable from the motherboard to the display is loose and needs to be reseated back in place. But before we call it ! hook an external monitor to the video output at the back of the laptop, If the monitor is good it is the laptop screen, If both show the same problem it is the video graphics card that is apart of the motherboard.

Could be a bad backlight lamp or a bad inverter board. Please refer to the following article for more details on how to diagnose & fix this problem:
http://www.fixya.com/support/r6430776-troubleshooting_laptop_power_failures

There is Video Driver update available in the Drivers/Updates page of the Computer model to fix this.

You can download the Update from this link

Please download and install the Update in the Computer. After installation, restart the Computer for the settings to take the effect. If the issue still persist, please try pressing the Fn/F6 Function Keys to change the Display brightness, as setting the Display brightness may cause the LCD to display dim.

Good luck..

If there is no display it is possible that you have a hardware issue. Remove the battery , keep aside and reinsert it. Power on and if the same issue comes up it is possible that the wire flexible strip to the display through the hinges is damaged. You will have to remove the screws to open and access the mother board, remove the display frame and checck the ccontinuity for confirmation. However if this seems OK then the display driverr is faulty.
If not familiar choose to get this done by a good tech, to estimate as this will be better than gettting the notebook tampered.
Decide wisely.

yes contact sony

The best solution is to replace the keyboard. Replacement keyboards are available on the Internet. I purchased mine from Yall Store.
Use this link to their WEB site :-
http://www.yallstore.com/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result&search_in_description=1&zenid=1lrjst3ncshlb4c7frn9bev3c3&keyword=keyboards

Hi,

With hundreds of operating system installs under my belt, I have yet to encounter a modern computer (under ten years old) that I couldn't install XP with sp2 onto. Is there any reason why you are concerned? As long as you have enough hard drive space and enough ram you should be fine. What you must remember is that you need to install the Sony drivers for your computer after the install of XP. Sony has a great support site, and if you do not have them on disk, they are easy to download from their site. They even have a tool that will scan your computer and provide you with a list of the drivers you need for your particular model. Just go to this page (copy the link into your browser's address bar if this link isn't active): http://esupport.sony.com/perl/select-system.pl?DIRECTOR=DRIVER&SR=nav:service_support:electronics:drivers_software:esup&ref=http%3A//www.sony.com/index.php

Just enter the model number and get yoru drivers. I would do this before you do your fresh install of XP. Of course, you will need to save the drivers on something other than your hard drive. It sounds like an obvious thing to do, but I just want to be thorough. OK then. Take care.

ftp://download.sony.com/US/pc/SOAOTH-41700000-US.EXE - install this

The Microsoft website will give details of how to upgrade and the costs involved, though buying the new operating system on hardware and performing a drive format and a clean new load could make more sense. A computer that previously ran Vista will probably be a few years old and therefore have a low specification so you could be disappointed with the performance when running Windows 10. I have a very old pc originally running Windows 95 that copes well with XP without perceptible loss of functionality for modest purposes, which makes no sense at all. On the other hand a relatively high-spec laptop I own needs a fair amount of patience running Windows 7. You have to try these things but the results aren't assured and it is a bit like making a wager with your cash. Might be more economic to buy an up to date machine.