I have a Sony Vaio SVE14A390X. Over the years I have completely done many factory restores on the laptop whenever I had issues. A few times lately I had to enter Safe Mode then fix errors.
However, about a week ago, I attempted to boot the computer and it wouldn't boot. It would give me the Blue Screen with the "frown face" and tell me there are errors but the system will try to fix and restart. Then I would get a black Vaio Windows screen telling me it was attempting advanced recovery. After that, it would just stay black screen...I left it on overnight once and still had the blank black screen in the morning.
I would turn off the laptop and then press the Assist button and attempted to enter the Windows Recovery mode (F10) to set up to boot into Safe Mode. However when I pressed F10 or chose that option, I would only get a black screen.
I tried various settings in the BIOS to no avail.
I have a set of discs I created when I got the laptop but the computer doesn't want to seem to boot from the discs.
I can't get a command prompt to be able to press F8 to enter the legacy change and boot into Safe Mode.
At this point, I am lost.
Is there a way to boot into Safe Mode without going through the Command Prompt option? I have tried every way possible as suggested on the internet...
Is there a way to access the Recovery system other than the ways I have already tried?
My main issues are:
1. Cannot boot normally
2. If using the Assist button, I get a black screen if I choose the Recovery Options (F10)
3. I cannot access Safe Mode, as I cannot open a Command Prompt
4. BIOS changes don't seem to affect anything
5. Will not boot discs
I am running Windows 8 and the computer is probably 4-5 years old. In all that time I never had a problem I couldn't fix on my own but as I said, I have tried everything I can think of, as well as all possible suggestions on the Internet (which basically tell me to enter Recovery Mode or start in Safe Mode - neither of which I can do....)
If anyone has any suggestions, please message me and let me know!!!! I don't want to lose all my data but if I have to I am willing as long as I can get the computer to function again.
Thanks in advance...