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Samsung 16GB SSD MCAQE16G8APR

2008-08-23T12:44:56Z

If you can make do with 16gb in your TR, (and I have for the past year), then this is pretty good value at AU $110.00

Type or copy & paste item number 300252620373 into eBay search

I disc clean every 3 months and have the previous HDD (an Hitachi 60gb) in a USB caddy with all my music . videos etc on it

with all the software I need on my TR i have about 4GB to 5GB space left

Note if you have an Hitachi HDD you’ll need the Toshibia connector & cage to fit it, If you have a Toshibia HDD you are good to go with SSD.

more about SSD HERE

Selling my PCG-TR3A

2008-06-29T00:25:29Z

Hello all. My TR3A is up for sale. Pay actual shipping. I am in Vancouver Canada. I have replaced the bottom casing so it is now in perfect physical condition, meaning no chips and all components are intact and not a screw or rubber missing.

What i thought before was a motherboard issue turns out to be just the power adapter cable. I had the power cable cut and resoldered.

Check out my local posting on craigslist for pictures. I have a paypal account too.

http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/sys/727135877.html

Cheers!

For Sale: PCG-TR3A with 16GB SAMSUNG SSD and XP PRO. Great Condition.

2008-09-03T09:08:12Z

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190250274997&ssPageName=ADME:L:LCA:US:1123

Switch to mains power and screen goes dark

2008-09-03T03:34:35Z

I’ve just started experiencing a problem with a Vaio PCG 6L1M.

Working off the battery power all works fine. But since a couple of days ago, when you plug in the mains adaptor the screen goes so dark as to be almost unreadable. The Fn+F5/F6 keys don’t do anything at all.

VAIO display power settings have power saving mode switched off for mains and battery power, and if I use the VAIO display control panel to reset the display brightness to 5 then hit apply and OK the screen brightness goes as it should for about 15 seconds, then goes back to being gloomy and headache-inducing.

Anyone experienced this problem and able to suggest a resolution?

Thanks in advance.

how to repair scratched LCD screen? can the plastic screen-cover replaced?

2008-09-02T09:54:31Z

hi, bought an x505 on ebay, but got a bit of a problem with a circular scratch that it arrived with,about 1 to 2 inches in the middle of the screen, looked at it from various angles and there’s also a small indentation. antiglare coating is also missing in that area. . the scratch really gets in the way, and makes the area look very pale. anyone know how to repair it? its really damage to the top layer which is like a plastic cover of the screen, can i easily remove this and replace with a new one?
thanks so much for any & all help

Differences

2008-08-22T04:10:12Z

What is the difference between PCG-X505/P, X505/CP, X505/SP, X505/ZP, etc.?

VAIO TR does not start

2008-08-16T10:53:38Z

My TR2MP does not start anymore.
The green light is on, the hard drive runs, the CD is activated, the battery and wifi indicators are OK, but nothing appears on the screen.

One day ago, it began booting “by chance” and then worked perfectly normally.

I tried with and without the battery.

I did nothing before, no recent hardware or software change.

Any idea?

Thank you for your help

Laptop not booting - memory problem?

2008-09-01T06:41:53Z

Hi Guys,

i had a problem with my PCG-TR1MP recently, it just stopped booting and didnt show anything on the screen.
After a bit of testing, i found out that when i removed my second 256 Apacer RAM, the laptop would start to work again.
Does someone experience the same kind of incompability or might my RAM just be defective?

best regards
Freundschaft

New Toshiba 1.8-inch 160-GB Harddrive

2008-06-11T06:24:24Z

From Engadget:

http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/toshibas-1-8-inch-160gb-disk-hits-5-400rpm-for-netbooks/

Think these’ll work in our TR’s?

Lack of 6 pin i.Link socket

2008-08-20T01:02:39Z

I’m a photographer and I use my X505SP as a photo data bank too. My camera Canon 1DMk2 uses CF card, so I bought FireWire CF card reader long time ago. It works perfectly with my desktop PCs and transfer speed is pretty many higher than via USB2.0 port. Unfortunately it isn’t possible to connect that CF reader to the X505 because it needs 6 pin connection - CF reader is an active device and needs power supply for correct work. My previous Z505LSK had both i.Link connections - 4 pin and 6 pin, so I had no problem. In my opinion lack of 6 pin FW is the X505 pretty large fault.
So this is my question. Is on a market the 4 pin FW cable having additional “like DDRW3 supplying twig” on the one side and typical 6 pin FW on the other? Or maybe is possible to get only X505SP i.Link supplying plug? If yes, I’m able to make an adequate connection cable by myself.
Thanks for any help.