I have laptop which turns 10 next month. I want to change its HDD 500 Gb to SSD . I asked on Sony Support , but they said " its not recommended to do changes with storage as the company has shut down its operations in India " . He didn't bother to explain the technical reason. Is there really...
I have a Vaio VJC141F11X which is a year old.
I had problems with it and sent it to Sony for repair under guarantee. When it came back (new screen) it had a problem with the battery - it didn't register the battery status.
I sent it back to Sony and got it back again today. Same issue...
I own a Sony Vaio SVF14AC1QL, after about a year of me having it the laptop would turn off immediately when unplugged. The battery said something along the lines of "0%, not charging." I ordered a new battery and changed it out, and now the battery says "70%" but won't go any higher. The bigger...
I am having problems fixing my mother's VAIO laptop.
The original hard drive has finally died. I bought a new one and fitted it in.
Now I can't get either USB or DVD to boot in order to install win10 on the new drive.
My brother knows how to do this but won't tell me. He's in that rebellious...
I have a laptop with high specs including 12GB Ram, i7-4500U CPU @1.8GHz and SSD as well as a NVidia GT735M.
But I cannot run any game properly. It keeps lagging between the game. What should I do?
Periodically my computer screen has a notice on a purple background in the upper right part of the monitor that states "Create Recovery Media for your VAIO PC ...." The only way I have been successful in removing it is to reboot my PC. How can I prevent this message from appearing and when it...
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I installed Win 10 in my Vaio and it was on Win 7 when we purchased. After installing Win 10 now the recovery drive is showing 0 Byte and I want to recover it to old Win 7 which was actual win of laptop when we purchased. Please help.
it goes off as soon as the supply is cut. it has been happening for a week now and it does not start until i plug into power supply. please give some suggestion
Hello there when I am starting my Vaio laptop it's always shows the Vaio logo and not booting up at all .
Well I can actually enter into bios and it works fine.
I took the laptop to a service center they asked me that it has a graphics related issues!!! Seriously!!!!
I want to fix this laptop...
When I type on this Vaio Laptop, all of a sudden, the letters jump to another, typed LINE or they even jump into some other items already typed. Never had this Problem before
my sony vaio laptop had an overheating problem that i fixed by taking out 2 of the fan cables to let it run at full speed, but now when i have a game or to many mozilla firefox tabs open it shuts down like someone unplugged it with no battery in.
temp never goes over 50C when it shuts down
I...
I have a VAIO laptop, and whenever I try to play Fortnite on it, it runs well for 15 minutes or so, following which it suddenly shuts down and is overheated.... Could using a CPU fan solve the problem?
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I hope you can help me with my Vaio VPCY15AB laptop problem. I already read the troubleshooting post but i wasn't able to identify the source of the problem.
A few weeks ago, my laptop started to freeze or shutting down while I was watching videos. Then, I was able to start it again...
I have a Vaio vpcf13wfx laptp when is charging, the power is disconnected and connectt. The laptop is out of battery and will not turn on until the power cord is plugged in and it will turn off when it's turned off if I unplug it.
Help me please! thank you
I even changed the motherboard of this...
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I have a VAIO VPCSE2C5E, the fan is makes noises when I tilt my laptop without care, looks like the actual fan (rotating part) is just loosened. I opened it a few times and kept all dust out. So, please advice:
1. Shall I get a new fan unit? (with heatsink or without) ?
2. Shall I apply...
My vaio model PCG-7184L CD reader runs continuously. Empty drive begins to run at start up and runs continuously. Only way to stop the drive is to open it.
Recently I was cleaning my reliable laptop which is a Vaio svs1512dcxb (a.k.a svs151c1gl) and for my misfortune and lack of attention the audio ribbon cable got stuck in a screw hole and got "chewed", cursing me to a no audio experience while using my laptop since the ribbon actually broke...
Somehow I got lost with my loved Vaio Z21.
Some days everything works fine and suddenly I get a black display with crazy marks on.
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Does anyone has an idea?
It happens directly at boot or also just during working under windows.
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My neighbors laptop one day just stopped working, it said "No OS Available" so she brought it over, I checked BIOS and its HDD is priority, checked HDD cables and they are fine, nothings been dropped or opened before. Put everything back together and assist button doesnt work...
Hi guys, I need help with a problem, I have a vaio vpceb25fg laptop, and when I turn it on, all that happens is it has a black screen with a blinking underscore _. How can I fix it ?
It is windows 7 as well.
Hi there, I can't connect to web with my VAIO laptop. How do I switch to online mode please?
Device shows connected to internet but not connecting to web. Help please anyone!
I have a VAIO monitor that for some reason keeps making Crackling/Popping noises. It will even continue when i turn the volume all the way down and wont stop untill i turn my computer off. Can someone pls Help
My Sony Vaio laptop is fully charged and when I turn it on the Vaio start up screen shows up as always but then it switches to a black screen. I have tried taking the battery out and plugging it in, but it still does not work.
[b]MY VAIO SVE141L11L LAPTOP'S SCREEN WORKS ONLY WHILE CHARGING, WHEN I UNPLUG THE CHARGER, THE CPU AND REST ALL WORKS FINE, BUT THE SCREEN TURNS OUT BLACK..HOW CAN I SOLVE THE PROBLEM?
I've got old vaio vpcs12x9e. About week ago i find out that it's not charging. Led on the adaper was dead so i bought a new one. Today I plug it in, turn on and it shuts down after few secconds. I find down about that solution - remove battery, hold power button for a few seconds etc. It worked...
My laptop vaio vpcf115fm, gt330m video card, keeps shutting down whenever it uses the gpu. When a run a cpu stress test, its fine. But when i start a gpu stress test, as soon as i hit start, it shuts down. This also happens in watching videos in youtube. In video games, it can launch a menu. But...
Sony USA Vaio windows 1980 PCG9231
Looks like new! Suddenly stopped working. A good technician checked it but couldn’t do anything. Not repairable. Can it be refurbished?
Recently I dropped my laptop and the first time I opened it it said operating system not found. So I closed it and opened it again and after the vaio logo is just a black screen with backlight. I tied vaio care rescue but it will not start it says "vaio care rescue Is starting " and it's been...
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A friend asked me to take a look at her Son Vaio laptop - Model sve14ac11l running Windows 7 Ultimate. Problem is, whenever it turns on, it takes nearly 10 mins to get to the login screen, and even after logging in, the desktop loaded empty, prompting an error that the desktop inside...
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I just formatted my old vaio flip laptop and clean installed windows 10
The laptop specs are:
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)i7-4500 CPU @1.80GHz 2.39GHz
RAM: 8.00GB
System type: 64-bit
NVIDIA GeForce GT 735M
The problem is that it runs really slow and booting up takes forever. But...
I have a vaio laptop model svf15nb1gl running windows 8.1. I've only had it for about 2 years. I was experiencing 100% disk space problems and I followed instructions on other threads on this site (turned off windows search, ITS, adjusted the virtual memory, etc.) these things would help...
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So my mum just asked me whether her old (2007) travel laptop could be brought back to life somehow. It's a VAIO-VGN-TX5XN (http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Sony-Vaio-VGN-TX5XN-Notebook.3747.0.html) still running on vista, 1 GB RAM, 100 GB HDD, Intel Centrino U1500. It is...
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I am currently a Junior studying engineering and I have been switching between a mid 2010 15" Macbook Pro and a 2010 13" Sony Vaio for the past few years. Both have identical internals (Intel i5-540m and Nvidia GTX 330m w/ 256MB of VRAM) and struggle when it comes to even the...
After the last motherboard got replaced by sony proffessionals, i just did clean install of windows ..
after which the model number appeared to be "reserved".. so that means i cannot install any sony provided drivers directly into the system.
please help me with any solution ..
the laptop is unable to detect mostly of the dvd and it only detects cd's...
1.i have tried uninstalling the driver.
2. updating the driver
3.that upper class and lower class deleting thing..(these two columns are not there)
and i am tired of searching for an answer
I have been given a vaio laptop but no charger, I dont want to buy a new one incase it dosent work at all.. but my friend said it does work she just had a new laptop. . Will it charge any other way so I can be sure before purchasing a new charger
"when i connect the power charging adopter with my vaio laptop when a dialogue box open which is stated that " problem starting preceptordemonic.dll". how can i stop it"
I have a VAIO VPCZ11NGX/X that contains three SSD's configured in RAID 0. One of the drives has failed. Can it be replaced? With what? And, where can I get a replacement?
I need to replace one of the SSD's in my Sony VAIO VPCZ11NGX/X, It has 3 128GB SSD's configured in RAID0. They are...
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I upgraded a friends laptop to Windows 10 earlier this year, and he came to me last weekend with an issue - the keyboard no longer functions at all, and the touchpad is sluggish too.
Anyway, I used a USB wireless keyboard and mouse to navigate though, and established Windows had...
I have a 4-year old sony vaio windows 8 laptop ( http:// )
It's specifcations have been given and it also has an amd radeon 7550 m/7650 m dedicated graphics card(which has been a pain in the neck recently)http://
I will first tell my laptop's current state and then how it got to that state. My...
Yesterday it's battery was low so it's LED was blinking, as I was going home already I long pressed the Power button to turn it off. But upon trying to turn it again, only its LED is now turning on, there is no indicator that the harddisk is active (checked the harddisk and it was fine) as it's...
I have a USB port problem, but it's not the typical one of a given port not working. My laptop has two USB 3.0 ports and they both work - but not at the same time.
My computer is five years old (Sony Vaio, Windows 7) and haven't had any problems in the past with the USB ports or using them both...
Everything appears to be working but I keep getting a smell of burning, suspect that its the fan overheating as the laptop appears to be very hot in that area, scared of taking the back off. Any help appreciated
When I turn my sony laptop vaio on and wait for a while i have nothing but black screen. But i can see my hard drive running and the power is also on.
I have tried removing the battery and plug and hold power for 60seconds. Sad to say it still acted the same "black screen", i can hear the...
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I recently had to open up my VAIO VGN-SZ 4MN/B in order to check a sound problem (I teared it apart and replugged the cables). Before putting back the keyboard and the speakers/buttons cover I turned it on to check the sound. No sound, but the computer worked. So I put back the keyboard...
Hello guys. i have a vaio laptop as i mentioned above. it worked fine for me around one year ago. yes for a full year i not used it. And now. when i try to turn it on. it turns on but after few second turns-off then after two seconds its turns on with no screen i mean black screen and stays like...
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I have a Sony Vaio E series and today I opened it to clean the fan because it was too dusty so I took off the fan unit cleaned it and placed it back then placed everything back and closed it. Now when I tried to tuturthe laptop on the power LED kept flashing green, but the screen stays...
Hi guys i need help with this problem. I have sony vaio windows 10. Since last update when i turn on my laptop after vaio logo a black screen with cursor blinking comes up and doesnt move any further. With sonay vaio i dnt think we have the f8 function to go safe mode and restore to earlier...
Vaio All in one computer orignally was windows 7, but upgraded it to windows 10. My brother have been downloading irrevelant stuff on the computer. While you're trying to use the broswer on there many popup add come up and the computer work very slow. I have resetted the computer once before...
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I would like to ask help for my vaio VPCEA36FA, why is it that after I clean the fan & fix it back my laptop does not turning on. The green light on the power button keeps on flashing yet it does not open the screen. What must be the problem? Please need your advice. I have...