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BIOS PSWD

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 16:47:46 GMT

If you are both serious enough about this to spend money this Company claims to be able to do it?

http://www.laptoprepair.co.uk/sony-laptop-repair-specialists.html

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Re: SZ2HP how do i work the built in wireless?

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 22:05:25 GMT

Confusion, Confusion
Simply want to use my pc and my laptop at the same time from one router I KNOW IT IS POSSIBLE.............

It is possible and accomplished by most Vaio owners if you have a wireless setup!

It is a shortfall on your part, not that everyone else can be wrong if you have a wireless network..

There is no no secret code or equipment,.

Continue using your neighbours internet connection - It works!

Goodnight & God bless you.

Re: Updating Intel PRO/Wireless 2200 broke my wireless.

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 15:29:17 GMT

Solution.

If I roll by driver back from 9.0.4.17 to 9.0.1.9, it works fine.

Re: keyboard

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 22:07:23 GMT

EDIT: Too quick for me again William!

5 minutes

Re: keyboard

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 21:57:24 GMT

Hi & Welcome,

If shift 2 gives you an "@" instead of a speech mark it would seem your keyboard layout is set on US rather than UK.

Start/Control Panel/Regional & Language Options.

Re: Recovery question!

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 20:44:07 GMT

Home made recovery sets often appear satisfactory until its time to use them in earnest especially if you have deleted the hidden recovery partition.

Personally I would retain the hidden recovery partition as added insurance for a successful recovery.

Re: SZ2HP how do i work the built in wireless?

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 20:13:59 GMT

If it can connect and work with a neighbours it would suggest that the Vaio is not seeing your wireless setup for some reason.

Check yor wireless router settings, because at the momement as you say, your network is not visible to your laptop for some reason.

Re: How To Change CMOS-Battery for Sony Vaio Z1M ?

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 20:08:57 GMT

I would think the clue is "Fixed Disk Has Failed".

You can obviously get it going if you keep trying at the moment.

Back up important data and be prepared to replace the Hard Disk not the CMOS battery.

Re: Is the AR11S being replaced with the AR21S?

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 14:54:20 GMT

Thre will always be a newer, better model coming out whichever Vaio you ultimately choose.

Conversely, you will never buy one if you are waiting for the next model to come out.

You may even get a considerable discount on the outgoing model

Re: Display darkens on boot

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 22:22:55 GMT

To let it be diagnosed is also a bit expensive. What about checking it myself? Just to see if the all the cables are connected.

Nice bike btw.

Thanks for the bike comment!

I weould not think any cables have become disconnected but perhaps there is an intermiitent "break" in the connector between your motherboard and screen or perhaps it is backlight related.

Either way you could spend money replacing parts that are not broken.

Do you have a local laptop repair centre that could help, as I agree out of warranty Sony repairs will be expensive.

Re: What can I put in my PC card slot ? no firewire or extra usb..

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 20:56:36 GMT

I know i can use it for like a fire wire port or extra usb but are there other things outhere what will boost up my laptop...

Sounds as if you are looking for ANYTHING, just in order that you have something stuck in your card slot.

I agree

Re: Display darkens on boot

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 20:38:29 GMT

If , as you say, it happens when in the Bios, I would agree its not a Windows problem and is hardware related.

It may be as simple as a ribbon cable replacement, but it will need to be diagnosed.

Its not Bios related and as you say Bios upgrades are best avoided.

Re: Hard Drive Replacement Question

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 19:06:30 GMT

You can use any make or size (Gb) of IDE HDD as long as the Bios and Windows supports much larger sizes.

If you have XP with SP2, I think you should be fine.

Have a look on Ebuyer.co.uk amd compare sizes for the best Gb/£. When I purchased a HDD about 12 months ago I went for 160Gb as that was the best size for the £'s.

Re: Additional RAM for Vaio SZ2XP

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 20:20:18 GMT

There is:

SONY MEMORY - Rip off prices

CRUCIAL - Cheaper, & well respected

KINGSTON - I prefer Crucial myself

OTHERS - What are you going to get & will it work?

I would be happy with the amount I had saved by going to Crucial rather than going even cheaper elsewhere.

The choice is yours.

Re: k key sticking intermittantly vgn-bx195vp

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 20:38:04 GMT

if it wasnt a laptop i would definiately follow that suggestion. :-)

What do you have to lose, if it doesn't work its a new keyboard.

Re: Cannot detect hard disks

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 19:31:31 GMT

Okay,

Thank you for the fast and helpful support, i'll purchase the recovery disks and reply if I have any further problems.

Chris

Good Move, despite the expense.

SATA and RAID are simple but complex, but I am sure the proper recovery disks will install without problem and sort it all out.

Re: k key sticking intermittantly vgn-bx195vp

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 19:27:29 GMT

If that doesn't work you might find that the contacts are under a silicone dome beneath the key which is glued to the keyboard PCB.

My resolution was to buy a new keyboard.

Re: Club Vaio forum registration

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 18:52:29 GMT

Only first time registrants can get a subscription to club vaio.
Second hand users can never get access.

Hmm that seems a bit harsh, surely new or second hand members should have the opportunity to join the vaio users forum..

They are after all still a vaio user..

I agree but currently CV is tied around new vaio registrations.

Perhaps it should be an area of change, as you say not everyone buys a new Vaio.

Re: Club Vaio forum registration

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 18:44:27 GMT

My partner did and was very happy - It was new and sealed.

K-315Z.

Always sounds like it is taking off and recently (out of warranty of course) the CD/DVD tray wont eject without resorting to a paperclip, good old Sony.

Re: RAM upgrades for PCG-K295HP

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 18:03:02 GMT

Your Graphics chip uses shared memory so increasing the RAM to max can only do good.

Depending on how cutting edge the games you want to play are and their graphics requirements only upgrading the RAM will give you the answer.

Hopefully its relatively cheap to find out and I would recommend CRUCIAL

Re: My Vaio PCG - fx705 broke down - mainboard

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 08:22:23 GMT

I don't know where you got a quote from but THIS PLACE may be cheaper even with shipping from the USA.

If still too expensive the part numbers may give you some idea of how common the motherboard is to the FX series.

BTW the majority of model numbers are American so your model may/may not be listed. If not and you are unsure email them.

Re: DVD Regionality!

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 19:33:47 GMT

The thing that's always puzzled me about DVD regions is how do the companies justify it? What benefit is there to the consumer?

I am sure there is no benefit to the consumer.

Films (and then ultimately DVD's) are usually released around the world at different times.

Hence I used to to buy USA versions of DVD's that had not yet been released in the UK.

I have loads of USA DVD's but can only play them on my 6 year old SONY DVD player - which cost £500+ when DVD players first surfaced. I paid over £100 to get it chipped!

Now you can buy a DVD player almost anywhere for £30.

I was originally astounded by the quality of DVD's and was one of the first to buy a DVD player.

Re: Parts for PCG-FX701????

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 10:47:13 GMT

Hi Aidan, you hit the nail on the head in your reply on another thread.

Nexttronics is a good source of parts with worlwide shipping.

As to what the equivelant US model is? All I can suggest is you look through this list. You may find that the parts you require are common to a range of models.

FX Models

If still in doubt email Nexttronics, they are very helpful.

Re: Sony VGN-A215Z

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 22:23:41 GMT

Hi scientist

Please do not double post as this causes confusion and wastes peoples time...

Please see other thread

Or even TREBLE post.

Re: Upgrading Graphics Card: VGC-V3S

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 22:10:52 GMT

Yeah and Sony don't do it on purpose so that you have to buy a new lap top/ computer every year so that they make more money? I find that hard to believe that this is not the case as I have heard many people complain about their sony vaios. So don't insult me just because you feel the need to defend a huge money sucking corporation. I have always liked sony but I find the fact that you cannot upgrade something as simple as a graphics card ridiculous and had sony clearly stated that you could not upgrade the graphics card then I would not complain and I am obviously not the only one to not realise this as two other people on such a small forum have found this problem. So thanks for being absolutely no help at all when you supposed to be a VAIO "expert".

I am sorry you feel this way, but did you research before purchase?

Its like a laptop, you get what you pay for with limited upgradeability.

So please don't blame me, the graphics cannot be upgraded.

Re: Upgrading Graphics Card: VGC-V3S

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 19:14:18 GMT

I am sorry, but you can't blame Sony with their all in one package.

Its down to your short sightedness regarding future requirements.

More fool you if you are not happy with the upgradeable factor.

Re: Running memory 1:1 on SZ2HP/B

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 15:56:16 GMT

I was in exactly the same situation about three years ago with a GRX notebook. The Sony installed memory was not running at its full potential.

The USA Vaio site offered a Bios update which cured this but the European site did not.

It involved swapping BIOS ROM files with those on a European floppy Bios update, so that the machine would allow an update after model checking.

Not for the faint hearted!

However, in this instance YOU have chosen to put faster RAM in your machine, not Sony. Therefore it is very very unlikely that Sony will add your wish to future Bios revisions.

Your only hope is that they will bring out a new model with faster RAM in the same Model Series. If they do you may be able to graft the Bios ROM files onto an update for your model and take advantage of the RAM you have fitted.

But its all hypothetical and very risky.

Re: Upgrade CPU or HDD on PCG-TR5MP ?

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 15:48:21 GMT

I have one too.

You can upgrade the HDD to a larger one, but make sure you buy the same make as the existing one as there are TWO different manufacturers of 1.8" HDD's and they each use different ribbon connectors, 80Gb is currently the biggest.

The CPU is soldered to the Mobo, so a CPU upgrade is just not possible.

Re: Booting from SD Card slot for new Vaios

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 15:41:23 GMT

I haven't tried it yet, but acronis can make a bootable sony memo stick using its "Bootable Media Builder".

Its all very well making a Bootable Memory stick, but how are you going to get your Vaio notebook to boot from it.

You can't I am afraid!

Re: Has SATA got its own connector?

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 15:38:51 GMT

ATA (or IDE Drives) have completely different connectors to SATA and the drives are NOT interchangeable.

Sony: Message List

BIOS PSWD

Re: SZ2HP how do i work the built in wireless?

Re: Updating Intel PRO/Wireless 2200 broke my wireless.

Re: keyboard

Re: keyboard

Re: Recovery question!

Re: SZ2HP how do i work the built in wireless?

Re: How To Change CMOS-Battery for Sony Vaio Z1M ?

Re: Is the AR11S being replaced with the AR21S?

Re: Display darkens on boot

Re: What can I put in my PC card slot ? no firewire or extra usb..

Re: Display darkens on boot

Re: Hard Drive Replacement Question

Re: Additional RAM for Vaio SZ2XP

Re: k key sticking intermittantly vgn-bx195vp

Re: Cannot detect hard disks

Re: k key sticking intermittantly vgn-bx195vp

Re: Club Vaio forum registration

Re: Club Vaio forum registration

Re: RAM upgrades for PCG-K295HP

Re: My Vaio PCG - fx705 broke down - mainboard

Re: DVD Regionality!

Re: Parts for PCG-FX701????

Re: Sony VGN-A215Z

Re: Upgrading Graphics Card: VGC-V3S

Re: Upgrading Graphics Card: VGC-V3S

Re: Running memory 1:1 on SZ2HP/B

Re: Upgrade CPU or HDD on PCG-TR5MP ?

Re: ***Booting from SD Card slot for new Vaios***

Re: Has SATA got its own connector?

Re: Booting from SD Card slot for new Vaios