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UNIQUE custom made Note Book based on the SONY TR series.

2008-10-12T05:24:16-08:00

Hi,
please to meet you all, first time here, as I see this is a community of TR lovers so this I suppose is the unique place to introduce this. I live on a small island near Spain in the Mediterranean sea called Ibiza where I have a little AV studio(SONY of course) that is used for multimedia and Super8 film and VO stuff.

As I am also a technician I fell in love with the TR a few months ago buying a broken one ending up now having now about 7 !...LOL. Not really just to have them but to rebuild them and making them faster better and more efficient. I just find them amazing and easy to work on and I still think it was one of the best developments of Sony besides the Professional AV department of course.

Anyway when all is in place as I am still waiting for parts I will be posting here the development or check out my preliminary page that will be for all the info about this Unique machine!

Best regards, Gery

http://view-tronics.com/sonyvaio/

Sony TR Alternative Webcam

2008-05-27T19:38:21-08:00

Here is a little tid bit I learned that I hope might help alot of you guys. There is a web cam on the new EEE PCs that measures 60mm by 8mm. It has a 5 pin usb connector and I believe would be a perfect fit for the Sony TR. I did the mesurements and from what I can tell you won’t even have to cut any plastic out like the other mod on this forum. you might have to change the usb connector though.

I haven’t tested this yet but I have done alot of research on this webcam problem in the TR series. The EEE 701 has a 0.3mp camera and the 900 has a 1.3mp camera. they are exactly the same size. It might be worth it to find some broken EEE PCs.

Here is a picture of the internals of an EEE PC. Notice the webcam at the top center.

Sony TR2A will not charge battery PLEASE HELP

2008-08-18T09:33:34-08:00

My Sony TR2a will not charge battery. I bought a new battery and the samething. The battery light flashes like it is charging. Also it will not run on the powercord. It will only run on the battery and when the battery is gone everything is gone. Help please. I don’t know who to have repair it or if it even needs repairing. It may be something I have reset wrong?

Help Please! Home Networking with HP Home Server

2008-08-10T18:57:26-08:00

So this may be a little off topic, except 3 of the computers in our house are TRs running XP Pro, we have two other computers as well, one runs Vista, the other Media Center 2005.

We are moving into a renovated place and we have Cat 5e cable throughout the house, I am going to be buying an HP Home Server, and would like to use it to run the media throughout our house (I have a slingbox and dvr, but am thinking of setting up the server to replace these).

The question I have is for those that have server experience, what type of challenges am I likely to have using my TRs to connect (through ethernet) to the server, and then connecting the computer to the two TVs (one old, one to be purchased) and accessing the stored videos, music and photos through the server.

I’m not sure if all that people refer to (gigabit switches etc.) are necessary if I’m using older technology like our TRs.

Any advice would be really appreciated, or suggestions on how others have connected to the media on their PCs.

Thanks!

Battery life suddenly shortened after SSD install

2008-07-30T16:47:46-08:00

After two of those horrible Hitachi hard drives died on me I decided to do the big upgrade and convert my PCG-TR3A to the Toshiba mounting and to install the Samsung 16GB SSD. Thanks to information gained on this forum the conversion was very easy and I found the Samsung 16GB SSD for $150 so I installed it. The performance increase was outstanding and worked much better than I expected but the computer developed a weird problem. After installing the SSD the battery life is now only about 30 minutes instead of about 2 hours when I had the Hitachi drive installed. Do any of you have any ideas about what may have caused this?

SONY TR5AP STILL KICKEN’ NEED HELP! Bladerunner? anyone?

2008-07-14T12:53:32-08:00

2008 July

Hi all i’m having trouble navigating the site cant find new topic button so i’ll put here, sorry for mistake really need help.

Problem history- I thought my second hard-drive was f’d computer did not boot so did restore. Removed hard drive and turned on sony vaio tr5ap and still heard the infamouse “chirp” where is it coming from battery in task bar
does the annoying back and forth loop from ac to battery even when ac is plugged in fine? Why is this happening? what parts do i need? is it the
dc jack? from other peoples posts i know its not the ac adaptor the only way
i can charge battery is to slowyl put jack in gently when tr5ap is on standby
or off and if it does’n’t click/chirp i know its charging? why?

bought 03’ i think brand new from sonystyle gulp $5000+HST tax canada
tr5ap new toshiba 40 gig
1 gig of orignial ram
new large capacity battery
broken camera (had used alot while lasted sigh....)
no bluetooth....yet..!
broken mouse left mouse button now use only right for click and mouse pad (apple 1 button style)
perfect working dvd burner (on my second one, only wirtes at speed 1 for dvd’s

near future planning for

bluetooth upgrade (pretty blue dash light....Joy
SSD upgrade (hopefully 64 gig or maybe more is $$$ drop
repair mouse (new parts)

Have now
1 sony tr5ap (my first computer i love it cant imagine life with you vaio!)
1 new 4 usb Macintosh Mini
took course all in macs for graphic design radio/film school animation new media

heard vista’s really weak so tryed leopard for a change in computers and artsy operating system

neeed help guys with problem at beginning of post thanx so much for all your help and posts in advance TRworld will never die like our sony’s

FTW!!!!!!!!!!!
stephenbw

cool cheap parts sight for vaio tr http://www.impactcomputers.com/sony-pcg-tr-sony-vaio-laptops-pcg-tr5ap-parts-internal-parts-and-assemblies.html

BladerRunner is the BEST!

2007-12-11T13:31:38-08:00

My baby (Tr2A) is up and running again thanks to BladeRunner and his fantastic service! I can’t say enough how pleased I am to have found this site and then to find BladeRunner. Fry’s had quoted me a total of around $900 total to fix my laptop to which I huffed and puffed and walked away sensing that I was being ‘worked’.

BladeRunner sold me a new mainboard, but he did so much more. His posts on this forum supplied clear installation instructions for replacing the board, he included restore disks, a memory card, and a bluetooth hookup. He even shipped a set of magnetized screwdrivers as well!

Thank you so much,
Kathy

Does that SSD work on TR ?

2008-07-07T19:08:08-08:00

Hi,

Here is the link :

http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?p=FSD64GC18M&c=fr&pid=f1845b5bbcf7f8c3c25dcaf0ac1cb0a474f79555ad322d2c392edeaca2c2a9d1

And Also I want to ask about the last upgrade possible for the wireless card ..

Thanks,

Kuwaiti

How much would you pay for a new Sony TR3A laptop?

2008-05-27T16:04:54-08:00

So guys. I know we are all Sony tr freaks. I know I;ve been for the last 3 years. So, how much would you pay for a new Sony Tr? How much would you pay for a fully upgraded and new sony tr?

Patch for vaio internal bt to enable working headset profile

2005-03-12T23:34:30-08:00

see posts below for instructions and files needed 8) .