Vaio laptop

having problems with Sony vaio laptop, approx 18 months old,basically dead as a dodo apart from the vaio logo appearing on the start up screen, someone suggested re installing the windows media centre disc, but the laptop came pre loaded and i did not actually get any discs with it, i should point out that i bought it from a sony centre and at the time assumed this was the norm, does anyone know if there is some sort of recovery gizmo installed that would allow me to reset the whole thing. any help is appreciated

Hi,

Press F8 as soon as it passes POST and Splash, and then Restore Factory Settings.

Even the POST is not taking place in your laptop which means that gives me feeling that some hardware issue much be there. I will advice you to take your laptop to Sony's service centre and if it is under warranty, get it done from them.