~Sony SZ Owners Lounge~

[chex]

^Right click the battery/power plug icon on the bottom right tray -> Adjust Power Properties -> VAIO Power Management. Then you can choose which power scheme suits your needs best. You can then change the default LCD Brightness level for when your laptop is plugged in and when it's running on batteries.

Does anyone know how to disable/get rid of the DVD-rom noise during startup? The DVD-rom light blinks a few times and then the drive makes a few sounds like it's warming up or something. I get this noise whenever I power on my SZ and also coming from hibernation. I already disabled the DVD-rom in Power Management and I even excluded it from the boot sequence in the BIOS. I already disabled the VAIO startup chime, but I still get unwanted attention in the library/class because of the DVD-rom noise!

[Rachel]

Just to update about my cpu upgrade to a P9500 processor from a T9300. Well i got a new CPU and that fit as it should do but my laptop just would not boot with it. The T9500 is the best processor in this line that i can upgrade to but i would never do that.
I guess other than maybe getting an SSD drive in the future that is pretty much it when it comes to upgrading my laptop.

[DetlevCM]

Just to update about my cpu upgrade to a P9500 processor from a T9300. Well i got a new CPU and that fit as it should do but my laptop just would not boot with it. The T9500 is the best processor in this line that i can upgrade to but i would never do that.
I guess other than maybe getting an SSD drive in the future that is pretty much it when it comes to upgrading my laptop.

Too bad

Anyway, thanks for the update - let's hope people will see this.

(BIOS problem??)

[A1e]

^Right click the battery/power plug icon on the bottom right tray -> Adjust Power Properties -> VAIO Power Management. Then you can choose which power scheme suits your needs best. You can then change the default LCD Brightness level for when your laptop is plugged in and when it's running on batteries.

thank you very much for your help. i added rep points

Does anyone know how to disable/get rid of the DVD-rom noise during startup? The DVD-rom light blinks a few times and then the drive makes a few sounds like it's warming up or something. I get this noise whenever I power on my SZ and also coming from hibernation. I already disabled the DVD-rom in Power Management and I even excluded it from the boot sequence in the BIOS. I already disabled the VAIO startup chime, but I still get unwanted attention in the library/class because of the DVD-rom noise!

same as me! i want to get rid of that too and also i did same as you but still i hear it! so i guess its not possible to disable it or hopefully i'm wrong!

[A1e]

Just to update about my cpu upgrade to a P9500 processor from a T9300. Well i got a new CPU and that fit as it should do but my laptop just would not boot with it. The T9500 is the best processor in this line that i can upgrade to but i would never do that.
I guess other than maybe getting an SSD drive in the future that is pretty much it when it comes to upgrading my laptop.

yeah i also think that ssd is all the upgrade one can get and the best one!

i will upgrade to ssd as soon as i see a reasonable price and have the money of that reasonable price

[SPEEDwithJJ]

Just to update about my cpu upgrade to a P9500 processor from a T9300. Well i got a new CPU and that fit as it should do but my laptop just would not boot with it.

I'm sad to hear that.

Not trying to pour cold water on your shoulder, but there is a reason why Sony release the Z as a replacement for the SZ in line with the release of the Intel P8xxx/P9xxx series CPUs.

[b|lly]

I just wonder...why do you even need P9550? What are you doing with this little machine, that you need more power?

I am SURE SSD upgrade would speed whole system more, than a CPU upgrade. And maybe try to find some 4G/stick memory modules.

[SPEEDwithJJ]

I just wonder...why do you even need P9500?

Probably don't need more speed, just less heat for a cooler laptop. Although, I could be wrong.

[Rachel]

It was never really for the speed why i wanted to upgrade. SPEEDwithJJ is right i wanted the small lower voltage battery life gains.
Speed wise the T9300 performs about the same as the P9500 processor.

[Unlimtiedkarma]

Anyone want to assist me with the speed and stamina switch issue. To further elucidate my issue, my stamina switch is stuck, when I switch it to speed mode it won't give me the message to switch graphics cards. I have a VGN-SZ360P, and I have downloaded original drivers installed them as well in an attempt to fix this issue. I installed Sony Utilities, library and all the factory defaults still no success. Later I opened the laptop up the bottom visible screws and blew away all the dust. I couldn't access the Video card switch though as I don't really know how to fully open the bottom half off. so any help? This issue happened roughly around when I installed Vmware (workstation version)