No I'm not kidding. I've got the PCG-GRX316MP and when I press the power button, the led's light up as normal, the cd drive does it's usual little twitch and then nothing. The led power light remains on, but the screen is blank (no viao logo appears, the screen doesn't appear to powerup).
Whilst it's "on" if I tap the bottom of the case all over, hold down the power key till it turns off again, and then turn it back on, it powers up as normal. (sometimes it takes a few goes at doing this though). Once it has booted up it runs just fine, unless you have to restart and sometimes you have to go through the whole process again.
The thing that really annoys me is that the vaio laptop I had before this one (different model), did exactly the same thing! And neither have been dropped, abused or anything like that. I even sent the old one off to sony to be repaired, it came back fine for about a week and started doing it all over again.
Not only that but both laptops had upgraded RAM, however they both started to see only one of the slots, (ram is fine as I've swapped them over, tried them on their own, and both modules work but only in one slot).
Any help would be greatly appreciated, but I won't be buying another Vaio again, which is a shame because other than these problems I love the computers.
James
P.S. I don't particularly want to send it off to sony either if I can help it, as they take ages, the laptop is now about 6 months out of warranty, and last time I sent the other laptop to them, they didn't send back one of my ram modules, and it was still faulty!
