Recent content by kellmike626

Yeah my laptop came from China, and not sure if its still supported there anymore, even though my laptop is less than 2 years old. Good luck to me getting something from Sony, so usually ebay or third party sellers are my only option (plus, don't want to pay $200+ for a new battery). Been...

The light usually blinks about 3-4 times per second, not twice. So now I'm pretty sure the battery came DOA. Still haven't heard back from the seller. Going to try to contact him again.

Regarding your temps...maybe try replacing the thermal compound on your CPU and heatsink, as well as GPU. Give it a good cleaning with some isopropyl alcohol, use a quality Thermal compound (I used Arctic Silver 5 on my HP Envy when I took it apart to re-paste it). That'll probably reduce your...

Okay, so cleaning the battery contacts with isopropyl alcohol didn't do the trick (I used 80%). I'm in contact with the seller of the battery at the moment to see if he can help me out with an exchange. So is there no chance this could be some kind of issue where sony might be blocking the...

Ill try cleaning the connections and see where that takes me...hopefully that'll fix it. My laptop is working perfectly fine otherwise, so I'm not going to be spending money on replacing it with a new one.

Long story short, battery conked on my Sony Vaio Laptop (Model VPCSD28EC) to the point where it won't hold a charge. This computer is originally from China, I'm in Canada. I bought a new battery (Model VGP-BPS24) from ebay for about $115 CAD, shipped. Listing showed it as Genuine, got it in a...