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RAM sliding in and out problem

2008-11-10T13:16:15-08:00

Hi all, I have a bad feeling I have just broken my TR5 and was wondering if anyone can clear something up for me. I have both a 512 and a 256 bits of RAM, but my system was only recognising the 512 it was originally installed with in bank 1. I then switched the 256 into bank 1, with nothing in the other side, and the TR recognised the 256 fine. I was thinking that possibly bank 2 was broken, so I tried putting the 512 in there on its own, but the machine didn’t boot up, so I put the 512 back into bank 1. At this point, I realised that I’d left the battery in during the last bit of changing and the laptop wasn’t booting up or even posting… all it does is have a black screen (doesn’t look like any power going to it), the power light is green, the hard drive is lit for a bit and I can hear it spinning, and the battery light is lit too.

Now I have noticed that the RAM in bank 1 isn’t actually held in place by the clips, but rather, I push it in at 45 degrees then snap it down so it is in place, the RAM can slide out under the clips. I hope I haven’t broken the slots themselves, but rather just blown the RAM… I’ve ordered a new 512 to try out.

Anyone seen this before or have any ideas? I’m going to be really quite annoyed if I’ve broken my machine considering I’ve only just newly fixed it after dropping it a year ago…

Power Problem (switch between AC/battery)

2008-02-07T09:34:24-08:00

My TR3AP has been acting finicky lately. When it is plugged in, the power profile keeps popping up and switching back and forth every few minutes indicating it is either “AC plugged in” or “Running on Batteries”.

My first thought was that I may have a problem with the physical plug - however I am wondering if it might be a power profile problem because now it will show AC plugged in even when I’m just running on batteries. It is driving me CRAZY!

Any suggestions? Is there another option other than the Sony Power Profile software? I can’t even figure out how to get the darn popup messages to stop.

I would appreciate any help the group might be able to provide,

Thanks

PCG-TR2AP

2008-10-05T07:05:01-08:00

I bought my PCG-TR2AP when it first came out for about 3,000$. It has (had) 30 giga which seemed terrific at the time; however, all the blasted software I didn’t use but was already loaded took up most of the memory. Anyway long story short I used the recovery discs I made to reformat and remove the rubbish I didn’t use and then it stopped working properly. So I bought some software to recover lost files and now I get a blue screen and have rendered the laptop useless. I only used it for travelling mainly Word and to download photographs. I don’t recall if I got Windows CDs with it, (can’t find them anywhere if I did) only that I made the full recovery kit which is proving (has proved) to be useless.
I’ve been toying with the idea of scrapping it and buying an Apple laptop for half the price. The thing is it should still work...and I used money I inherited from my dad so...for sentimental reasons I want the blasted thing to work again.

Help! Please.

you can’t believe this

2008-09-20T20:10:25-08:00

one month ago. the weather is damn hot in california. my sony tr3a HDD died and it couldn’t detect operating system and no hard disk shown in BIOS. I tried more than 10 times and no way to get t back. so i set my laptop aside to collecting dust.

today, I try to start up the laptop. amazingly, now it works fine. i immedially
backed up all data . you just can’t believe this!

Oh dear. Swapped out HDD, now it wont boot

2008-03-26T14:42:40-08:00

Hi,

As the title suggests.

My hitachi died, so i’ve spent ages getting the parts to swap out to a toshiba.

I’ve put it in, i also had the bios battery out for a while but have now connected that up again. Also took the ram out to have a look and put it back in as it was.

I’ve put it all together again, and now it wont boot. The lights at the front come on, and the cd drive flashes. If i put a cd in it will also spin up.

However the fan doesnt appear to do anything, but im not sure if it does on boot. and the harddrive doesnt sound like its doing anything.

But surely if the harddrive was dead it would still boot to BIOS wouldnt it? Im getting nothing, no life on the screen at all.

Someone please help, I dont wanna lose my TR!!!!

cheers

*edit - i’ve left it on for a little bit now just incase it springs into life.

it hasnt. but it is warming up in the harddrive area, which makes me think it is probably doing something.

i’ve also prodded the reset hole underneath which hasnt done anything.

also if i press the caps lock key or num locks it doesnt turn on the corresponding light under the screen. i’ve tried fn+pf7 to see if the screen is routed to external, but it hasnt helped

Switch to mains power and screen goes dark

2008-09-03T03:34:35-08:00

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.

VAIO TR does not start

2008-08-16T10:53:38-08:00

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

vaio tr5mp - not powering up- now fixed (just loose connections)

2008-08-27T09:23:28-08:00

Hi,

I recently replaced my failed MK4004GAH 40gb HD,(sourced via ebay), with the help of guidance posted here..(Thankyou to contributors).

Everything was fine except the keyboard ribbon was not connected properly.I managed to do this whilst powered up. I popped the keyboard in place and susbsequently have had a complete failure on powering up.

Any ideas as to proceed or troubleshoot?

prior to that the rescue disks did their work, but the keyboard not working became apparent fairly quickly.

After dissamebling it all again the HardDisk connector must have worked loose, now thats in place, its all up and running.

Thanks all.. I thought about deleting this but im sure im not the only one.

VAIO TR - cannot set the power supply options

2008-08-17T01:40:55-08:00

I cannot select a power supply scheme profile other than the “PowerSuite Scheme”, and I cannot actually modify the settings for this scheme.

Whenever I create / select another scheme, or if I modify this “PowerSuite Scheme”, it will be reset to this default profile, with the default options at the next boot.

The computer also does not seem to obey to another setting. For example, if I want the computer to idle when closing the screen, it goes to hibernation.

It sems that something overides whatever I modify about the power supply settings.

Thank for help

I think my hard drive is dead

2008-04-23T12:30:26-08:00

Hi
I have a Sony Vaio PCG-TR1MP which suddenly died some time ago. I am looking for a replacement hard drive but could it be anything else?

I have tried running the recovery disc but it never manages to get to the end.

Any help or suggestions would be gratefully received.

If it is the hard drive where can I get a new one in the UK.

Many thanks
Riccardo