Sony Vaio Bios Corrupt

Hi,
I have a sony Vaio PCG-382M.
When it boots up it has vertical blue lines through the sony vaio screen.
It then continues to a screen covered in a's with little hats.
Xp will then start to load up but it fails and restarts.

Pics attached - any ideas?

 

can you actually enter the BIOS ?

on a Vaio i believe you press F2 or F3 at power on screen & look at manual for ideas, failing that try flashing the BIOS

 

Going nto the setup was no help - restoring defaults etc

How do you flash the bios?

 

if you can successfuly enter the BIOS it unlikley it's corrupt, it is more likley that the lappy has a virus, when did you last do a complete virus scan ?

 

Don't know as it is not my computer.

As now won't load vista how do I scan it?

Cheers

Kit

 

there are loadsa AV bootable CDs to downlod out there, like this or if you prefer a particular AV software package, see if they provide a boot CD

 

aint gonna be your bios dude because its sucessfully posts then asks for operating system, must be virus's. if no luck with the bootable virus scan. full format will be needed.

Virus has most likely corrupted your operating system. good job it aint the virus chernobyl you wud defo know about it. your bios would be flashed and your in the s*** then.