Just picked up a used but like new VGN-SZ650N last nite and would like to upgrade the HDD to 7200rpm. May I know is there instructions online to shed me some light how to do that.
View 4 RepliesI went to the sony support page and i saw that the Sony SZ650 series is not eligible for upgrade. Bummer. But I noticed that regardless, people are finding ways around this and still installing WIn7, while getting the FN buttons to work.
Does anyone have a guide on how to install Win7 32-bit onto the SZ650N/C? I know the Win7 64-bit is made, but im more interested in the 32-bit.
Also, I noticed on the sony ftp site, there are more updated sony drivers. Is it possible to install the newer sony drivers (i.e. on the SZ650 support page, a sony driver is v2.0.0, while on the ftp site i find a sony driver v5.6.0), is it a good idea to update to the v5.6.0?
Got a used VGN-SZ650N last nite, installed with Vista Business Edition, seller already burn me a set of recovery DVD to restore back to Vista Business Edition. This morning I wipe out my C drive partition and installed XP professional from scratch and leave the recovery partition (hidden) alone. Tonight my wife changed her mind and want me to put Vista business back to this laptop. Now I have XP on C Drive and a set of recovery DVD, what is the quickest way for me to restore Vista Business back to the laptop.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a sz650n that will not boot -
Very little water made its way onto the keyboard, and probably leaked down and killed the motherboard. I bought a used motherboard from a semi-local store - same symptoms - few lights come on, fan comes on, no boot. Took motherboard and laptop back to the store, the guy said he tried 2-3 other motherboards, all with the same symptoms. It *is* possible all 3-4 boards he had are bad, but unlikely?
I'm pretty sure the power board is okay. He tried another CPU and memory, same symptoms.
I am looking for any advice you might have. I really need to get it fixed. I am still 99% sure its the motherboard, but the fact that all the ones he tried yielded the same results, maybe something else went out as well?
my laptop hard drive stop working is not recognized by the OS indicate no hd found, therefore i need to replace it. but i do not know how to do it. how to remove the hd, how to find it, etc.
View 3 Replies View RelatedIn addition to having a bad hard disk (after less than a year of ownership it totally failed, corrupted data, bla bla bla), the welds on the palm rest screw posts (see picture attachment) have come undone. I have been able to fix this for the time being with krazy glue, but it's not perfect. Furthermore, because of this, the plastic piece on the CD drive side broke at the incredibly flimsy joint with the main carbon chassis. Also fixed for the time being with krazy glue.
The touchpad comes on reversed from time to time, there's a ton of bloatware installed by default, no official 64bit support (although I was able to get it working with help from this forum), bla bla bla. My friends think all of this is hillarious, as I "overpayed" for a Sony that has been a real bear in terms of quality.
I can't complain about the design, weight, battery life, gorgeous screen, or performance however... but the quality issues are canceling out the positives, I'd say overall it's impossible to give the SZ6 a better grade than a B: it's a pleasure to lug around (I'm moving around every day) but the poor quality means you can never relax.
With all the hand wringing folks have been doing about the lack of drivers for a clean install of Win7 I thought I'd jump in to the deep end of the pool with my FZ190 and investigate an alternative. My good friends Rajesh and Dr. Pratik have done clean installs of Win7 on FZ models, but I decided to take a different approach... the "dreaded" OS in place upgrade. Partly out of curiosity, I wanted to see if it would work, but mainly because I have a ton of software that would need to be reinstalled, if I did a clean install. That would mean days or weeks of inventorying every thing I have installed, digging up installation media and then installing all the stuff. I just don't have the spare time. So...
This past weekend I imaged my C: drive (all my data and I mean ALL my data is on D:, I am a fanatic about that). MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A BACKUP OF YOUR C: DRIVE BEFORE YOU TRY AN UPGRADE! I ran the Windows 7 Update adviser and it said I had some issues:
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NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GT - NVIDIA Not compatible The driver installed for this device is not compatible with Windows 7....................
I am trying to upgrade to windows 7 with the free windows 7 upgrade kit I have both Cds and i put in the home premium windows 7 cd it starts up and tells me "run-time error 70' permission denied"
my laptop is Fw490jeb
I have noticed that when I try to run "model.txt" it does not show up and when I go to system it does not detect my processer and other things...
Could someone please tell me what type and where to get two 4GB cards of ram to upgrade my new CW.
View 3 Replies View RelatedSZ HD upgrade possible?
Is there a way I can replace my hardrive while keeping the sony recovery tool? I find that tool very convenient.
I am looking at purchasing a Sony FW, but was wondering if the gpu is upgradable to something like the new nVidia GTX 280 M, or even the new ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850?
Also, I have searched on the internet to buy a mobile gpu, but google yielded no results.
Do I have to contact ATI/nVidia directly to obtain the certain gpu I want?
Just wonder SZ230 with T2400 socket M can be upgrade to T7200
View 10 Replies View Relatedin the thread win 7 on z i expain what im trying to do and why to make a long story short when i do a clean install and go to windows updates fist thing there are 4 updates 1) defenders 2) video card about 50mb 3) sd card about 78kb 4) sony pi 78kb . but when you install they dont do nothing and the video card update really messes things up . so my thought was they are for when you upgrade form vista . but in all the years of having computers i have never upgraded allways cleaninstalls . so the help i need is do i start the upgrade from within vista or do i start like a clean install and choose option upgrade ? which is best? i have a disk which lets you choose which version you would like home/premeir/ buss/or ultimate . i really dont think sony would have put out these updates without trying them so thats what makes me think there for a up grade not clean install . becase 2 of the dont help and the third messes the video all up
View 4 Replies View RelatedHow hard/easy is it to upgrade the processor in a Vaio?
For e.g., T6600 to P8700?
I was wondering if it is possible to upgrade the 1366x768 screen on the VGN-Z610Y/B to the 1600X900 from the VGZ-Z690 or something or if there is some type of bios limitation that I should be aware of
View 5 Replies View RelatedAnyone could tell me if this is feasible to be installed on the TZ.
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http://www.fadfusion.com/selection.p...er=10122600671
have a friend who thinks he can update my laptop on my behalf to reflect more memory (2GB) and a larger Harddrive (500 GB), can anyone please advise whether this is possible for this laptop.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm looking at purchasing an FW with only 2g of RAM and upgrading it myself cheaper than I can do buying it from Sony. The RAM from Sony is DDR2-800 PC2-6400. where to buy a couple 4g modules (2x4, 8g total)?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a sony vaio ar250g with a 4200rpm hard drive. Yep it sucks.
I have not been able to find out if I can upgrade to a 7200rpm, can anyone help me out
I want my laptop to last me another year or two if possible. I was cleaning it the other day when I broke off a key, ugg....anyway I found a replacement keyboard for $35, which I will be fixing.
Ok, being I have seen I can also change the hard drive. I am confused though, do I need an Ultra ATA-6, a SATA, IDE, EIDE, I just can't seem to figure out which one I need. I want to get at least 160 Gig HD for it. I see one for $35 here
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would this work?
Also am I right in that I can also change the CPU if I get a Centrino 2.1Ghz, 400mhz as long as I use the Artic Gel stuff? If I do these 3 things I think the laptop would be great for another year. I am out of the country without much money hehe, so for me buying a new one is not an option, besides I cannot get a real normal QWERTY keyboard here....so that would frustrate the crap out of me. I am too old to learn a new keyboard!
I already am upgrading the memory from 512 to 1024, I got the chips on ebay for $11. Wish it would support more, but that is the max for this laptop.
I have almost 3 year old Sony SZ-330 P/B, it originally had 2GB ram.
Is it possible to upgrade this ram to 4GB?
Here's original spec on the ram,
Type: DDR2SDRAM
Installed: 2GB (1GBx2) PC2-4200
Maximum: 2GB
Speed: 533MHz
Because the spec said "maximum: 2GB" I'm wondering if I can upgrade.
Will this harderive work in a PCG-8M2L?
250.0 GB ATA/100 5400 RPM 9.5mm 12.5MS 8MB Cache
or will this one work, I like it better?
Seagate ST9500420AS 500 GB 7200 RPM it is an SATA drive...
i would like to take apart a sony VGN-NR498E and maybe upgrade cpu...can anyone tell me were i get instructions on working on this model....i went to sony support, and don,t seem to find upgrading parts instrustions on their support site..
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a sony model # PCG-V505ECP
It has a small hard drive 40gigs, I believe this one [url]
Is there anyway I can upgrade this? What drives would you recommend....
i was thinking about upgrading the ram in my vaio from 2gb to 4gb. from what ive gathered the Intel 945PM chipset is capable of supporting a max. of 4gb RAM, although i have also read on these forums that it's only 3gb. If it is indeed 3gb max. i presume that i will have to install 1x 1gb and 1x2gb to achieve 3gb and would therefore lose out dual channel. would i see a performance boost if this were the case? i want to install windows 7 x64 in the near future.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI got a Vaio Z620D, it's a Canadian Model. It's got only 2GB of ram, so I am looking to add 2 more. I was told that it should match the frequency or something like that, I am not too sure about the whole deal.
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Here is the detailed specs for this laptop, just scroll down for the RAM info.
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I got VGN-TZ190. It comes with 32GB SSD. Someone please suggest some good SSD I can get 64GB/128GB to upgrade the disk.
View 4 Replies View RelatedSo I got my hands on two Vaio Z's, one (VGN-Z27GNX) with Blu-Ray and 2.53Ghz, the other (VGN-Z36GDB) with DVD+RW and 2.66Ghz.
I am keeping one of them and selling the other, however, ideally I would like the faster CPU and Blu-Ray drive on the one machine. Not only that but I would also prefer the Z36 as it is the third generation model (in Australia) as opposed to the Z27 being second gen.
My question is, whether it is even worth the trouble to gain the 130Mhz and whether there was any significant changes from 2nd to 3rd generation in design, architecture, efficiency, etc?
At the end of the day I do want the Blu-Ray drive. Also, I plan to upgrade to a single SSD in the near future and have read on this forum that there are some issues with having an SSD with Blu-Ray but I am not sure why. Can someone please clear this up because if this is correct then I will also need to consider SSD vs Blu-Ray?
My Sony has a T7200 CPU wanted to know if it could be up graded to a T7800 or Faster CPU ? I have not opend it yet to see if the CPU is socketed for changout.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have SONY FW130E (P8400 2.26 GHz) (2 GB Samsung DDR2-SDRAM PC2-6400 (399 MHz)-[DDR2-800]), I would like to add another 2GB RAM.
Wanted to know can i use any other manufacturer if i want both RAMs to operate in dual-channel mode (best performance).
Can i use DDR3 ?
What does PC2-6400 and DDR2-800 mean (i got this information through PC Wizard 2008) ?
what RAM I should use for best performance.