Sony :: Odd Video ProblemZ11
Apr 27, 2010
strange problem with the display last night.
Since I rarely game on the Z11, I've been running in stamina mode pretty much all the time. Last night, when I resumed from standby, the display started to flicker. The LCD would effectively blink about twice a second and after about 30 seconds, a purple verticle line appeared on the right side.
I cleanly rebooted the machine and the issue subsided. I haven't been able to reproduce the problem this morning.
I've got a clean install and have been running on it for weeks, issue free.
Now, I have been dorking around with the video card drivers in support of the Optimus driver thread, but this is the first time I've had trouble. If it happens again, I will reinstall.
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Apr 27, 2009
I started getting some very bad video problems on my (almost) 2 year old Vaio FZ190E (custom and upgraded).
The problems occurred in the form of artifacts and color shifts that affect both the LCD screen and an attached monitor. Here are some pictures of the problems:
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After the initial occurrence, I let the vaio sit for a few minutes before rebooting (on battery) and all was well. As soon as I plugged it back in, within 5-10 minutes it had occurred again. Thinking it may have something to do with plugged in vs. battery, I tried many variations on that but the problem continued to crop up regardless. Another variation in the problem is that sometimes I will be able to fight through the distortion/artifacts and still use the computer, whereas other times the artifacts will coincide with a complete system freeze and auto-reboot.
To try and diagnose the problem, I pulled out the RAM (2x2gb OCZ) and replaced it with the 2x1GB that the system had come with. This had no effect as on the next boot the problem cropped up immediately.................
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Jul 12, 2009
I'm torn between deciding whether to get a high end cto of a z, sr or fw series laptop for video editing. I am familiar with the fw series. It's very good but weighs a ton and only has ddr2 memory available for it. I'd like to get a high end cto of a z or sr. I see they both go up to 2.8 ghs core 2 duo and use ddr3 memory and have dedicated video cards.
While the builit in screen is not 1080p, it seems big enough for video editing. My concern is performance.
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Jul 22, 2009
I have installed Windows Server 2008, are there any video drivers available that will work for this machine with WS2008? I just have the default driver and its stretching left to right?
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Oct 24, 2009
I have updated my bios to R4041M3, performed a clean install of Windows 7, and installed all the new win 7 drivers including the video driver from this page:
http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/swu...=5151&os_id=47
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Jul 19, 2009
I bought sony fw490 (Radeon 4650 1GB, 8GB ram, 2.8Ghz 6mb cache, fullHD). I am getting only 19-23 fps for crysis. Should I be tuning some video parameters to boost this?
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Oct 27, 2009
I have the hybrid graphics and I can't find a Windows 7 x64 driver for it. I've got everything else working, but I had to use the Vista driver for video.
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Sep 15, 2009
i have cs110e, it is showing 128 grafix memory, but i need to play high resolution 3d games, so that i want to share my video memory to 512Mb, i searches all options in BIOS Setup, but not found...
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Jan 11, 2009
is anyone else having gpu driver problems, if you are please email sony so they can update it. the drivers are still the original yet nvidia and intel have updated. and dont work with the switchable graphics on the z.
Update: talked to sony and they have no update in the works. talk to head of North american texh support and he said if enough people complained they would update the drivers.
it would be nice to have the nvidia cuda drivers. from what i understood sony edited the code to permit for the switch without reboot. that is why there has been no update.
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May 2, 2010
I need some help from you Sony experts with something..
First of all.. I'm on a Sony Vaio laptop. Model no. VGN-NW265F
The graphics card is.. Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family
Okay, so here is the issue. This issue has been plaguing my computer since it came out of the box. It has always been like this, so there is no user error involved here .....
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Nov 10, 2009
I just installed windows 7 on my sony z. The notebook has nvidia geforce 9300m gs which is a 512MB.
However, when I check the screen properties on windows 7 it show that the video card is only 256MB
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May 11, 2009
I saw a Sony Vaio Z today in a local store, and was incredible impressed with it's weight and size and keyboard.
But if I am going to use it for some video editing(Avid Media Composer) and to play some future games(Dragon Age, COD4 MW2 etc) is it powerful enough .....
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Oct 23, 2009
I just noticed that there is no win 7 video drivers available for all those models except the new vaio z890 ones
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Jul 15, 2009
I just got a VGN-Z750D/B which has two graphics cards. (NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS and Intel GMA 4500MHD).
how to switch between the two?
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Oct 28, 2009
I've upgraded my vaio z47gd to 64 bit win7. However my nvidia graphic driver messed up. It seems like screen divided to two sections with bad refresh rate. Anyone else having this problem?.
Also can anyone point me to the right place to download win7 64 bit drivers. I can't see them on the sony site.
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Mar 25, 2010
Just upgraded my VGN-SZ491N to Windows Ultimate 32 bits OS with a 320GB 5400 rpm drive. It is much faster than the 4200rpm drive.
Anyway, after the fresh install of Win732 onto my new hard drive, I need to find the drivers for my built in Intel and Nviaid video card, can someone kindly tell me where I can download those drivers to complete my install.
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Jan 27, 2010
I'm curious if the computer is powerful enough to handle fullscreen 720p x264 playback from iTunes and XBMC.
Also, is the SSD drive easily upgraded? (Is it a 2.5" model?) I find the 128GB limitation somewhat cramped.
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Jan 30, 2010
I have a VGN-FZ21E with nVIDIA Ge Force 8400M GT graphics card and Vista OS. For some unknown reason, the HDMI and S-Video outputs to my Sony TV have stopped working. Has anyone any idea as to what the reason might be please? I have checked the TV inputs and they are working OK.
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May 26, 2010
I have a VAIO SZ series laptop which got the typical video isue with Nvidia GPU (vertical lines). I was very disaponted from what I read and from the 750-1000 Euro repair cost that sony Greece (I live in Greece) offered me so I started looking for a motherboard on ebay. I was very lucky and surprised to find a company offering a repair service for my laptop located in Greece. I bought the service for 200Euro I packed the laptop and send them my pick up info.
Next day a courier picked up my laptop and 10 days later it was returned fully functional and they even solved the problem with the noisy fan! This happened one week ago and today they even refunded 50Euro of my payment because I am located in Greece and the offered price was calculated for shipping in EU! So it actually costed me only 150Euro in total!
Checing their listing I show that they are offering repair services for FZ series laptops for much less but they are asking to send them only half of the laptop. Anyway I prefer not to mention the company's name but if you check on ebay.co.uk for VAIO SZ video repair you should find them and maybe more proffesionals closer to you who could repair your laptop for a fruction of what sony is asking.
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Aug 18, 2009
I just did a clean install, and everything is working fine, except for it seems video files are looking a bit washed out. I have noticed that Catalyst Control Center is not installed, could it be related to that? And is it possible to install CCC after a clean install?
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Mar 22, 2010
I just picked up the Sony Vaio F series from Best Buy and noticed that the video colors are distorted (bluish) when playing blu-ray or regular videos on the laptop. I tried tinkering with the display and nvidia settings. No luck. Pictures / images look fine. Only videos have the odd bluish color.
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Dec 19, 2009
I just got my brand new Sony Vaio TZ
everything is great till now but i was checking to video card memory and its only showing 64MB ,, its should be 224 according to the specs "i know its 64MB dedicated memory"
i took a look to the BOIS and didn't find any option the increase the memory ,,, so what i have to do to take the full 224MB
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May 17, 2009
I've had the camera in the closet for a while but took it to the track to get some video of the kids racing their quads. Last week I couldn't get the MBP to even recognize that something was plugged into it. After a little research I found out I needed to use FireWire and had to buy a 400 to 800 cable. Well I got the cable and tried again today with no change in status. I rechecked the settings in the camera, double checked the plugs but no luck. Any ideas short of throwing the camera away?
On a side note I can't even get the Sony software to install even though it is Mac compatible. I guess its made for an older OSX version or something.
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May 22, 2010
just started using this laptop last night and now when watching a video it sputtered and turned white got a brief message saying some Video driver has been recovered
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Apr 10, 2009
I know this has been mentioned some times at the forum - but all the links i have found are "dead".
I need the Intel Video driver for the Vaio Z.. and i managed to find this link:
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Which one should i get?
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Sep 3, 2009
Launched at IFA '09. Good looks in true Vaio style!
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Apr 17, 2009
crappy video output of my lappy vaio NR17G.
CPU:c2duo T5450
GPU:inbuilt intel graphics media accelerator
RAM 1gb
[no heavy processes running when tested]
OS: vista home premium ....
see the crappy video displayed #SNAPSHOT# from a good Q video from youtube :
I DID FULL SCREEn > [url]
YOUTUBE LINK : metallica live
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I CHECKED IN MY DESKTOP(with P4 ,512mb ram,ASUS P5v motherboard, inbuilt graphics card) IT PLAYS SMOOTH... SEE THE SQUARES IN THE IMAGE EDGES .
aLSO- > lappy displays badly any video less than DVD Q video,played with VLC or whatever [good in dvd rip AVI files] see squares etc..
i loaded ffd show too for vlc but no use .. the video comes with squares if it is a little poor.
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Mar 27, 2010
I recently acquire a VGN-SZ491N from ebay and since I don't really like Vista, so I wipe out the hard drive and install Windows 7 Ultimate from scratch. I followed the following steps and everything works fine except for the video card portion.
A. Install Windows 7
B. Install missing / unknown drivers
C. Reboot and install the utilities, in the following order:
1. Sony Utils DLL
2. Sony Shared Library
3. VAIO Event Service
4. Setting Utility Series
After Step C, I reboot my laptop and then able to install Nvidia driver and upgrade the video card from generic one to Nvidia at Speed mode.
But when I manually switch from speed to stigma, nothing happen, so I would like to know what should I do to enable the Intel video card portion and make it work in Windows 7.
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Feb 19, 2010
Im interested in purchasing a Vaio Y notebook, but considering its processor being only 1.3ghz, and having integrated graphics, im wondering if it will perform sluggish during heavy usage. I do not do any gaming, but i do Heavy web surfing (open lots of tabs at once), and watch HD video online (Hulu, Youtube etc). Also, i convert many video files for my iPod, and download many videos, and audio through the internet as well. could anyone comment on how would this perform during these types of uses?
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May 18, 2009
an issue I have, regarding video playback. Whenever I watch a video file on my HP DV6T, the playback seems rather grainy.
The video playback seemed much more clearer of a picture on my dv5z, and I am wondering if it has to do with the resolution.
Could this be because of the 16" 1366x768 resolution?
All I want is to be able to watch my movies or video files FULL SCREEN, and in good video quality.
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