Official Sony VAIO F Series i5/i7 owners thread *Part 3*

[btugalover]

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Hi guys,
Today i notice that touching in the "display off" button the sound goes away, and if i turn the display on, the sound comes again. So is this a display problem?/QUOTE]

it's probably coming from the bottom center (towards the right of center, actually) of your LCD bezel actually. You'll find that this also causes a bit of heat at full brightness! lol.

Inverter whine is a hit or miss situation! One of my desktop LCDs is dead quiet, and the other one makes a high pitch whine when you turn it on (which goes away after about 3 seconds).

Yap i notice now that the sound dosent come from the speakers/mic...is coming from the bottom center off the screen.

What do you mean with "Inverter whine is a hit or miss situation"?
Im Portuguese...

[ihyln]

I just got the VPCF11JFX the other day and I was curious to find out if I could put another sata drive in place of the BD drive. Is that possible?

[justme2010]

I just got the VPCF11JFX the other day and I was curious to find out if I could put another sata drive in place of the BD drive. Is that possible?

If the drive is hooked up via SATA its worth a shot provided the BIOS will cooperate. The bay would likely be too large for a standard 2.5" drive however.

[Nuggstein]

I just got the VPCF11JFX the other day and I was curious to find out if I could put another sata drive in place of the BD drive. Is that possible?

Yes...ask Joe Bleau here on the forums, I believe he did it. You buy a specific bay that holds a SATA hard drive and you put it in place on the optical drive.

[Joe Bleau]

1. Question - ah...nothing happens. The noise remains.
2. I'm not using a third party equalizer.
3. i've done your procedure disabling all enhacement and dolby and the noise remains.
4. OEM OS?what does it mean? I've made a clean installation with another OS (Windows 7 Ultimate).
5. The drivers are from 2009. When i try to install the 06/2010 drivers he begins extracting and the installation dosent continues.

I think the problem is really with the display. I cant understand if the sounds comes from the mic or the display. But if it goes away touching the "display off" button it really keep me thinking about being a display problem.

OEM means Original Equipment Manufacturer & OS is Operating system so OEM OS means the custom Win 7 that was installed specifically for your F by_Sony in the factory with all the necessary specific drivers & patches. Clean install means you installed a generic Win 7 OS & we don't know if you installed the proper stuff for your F to work properly.

"The drivers are from 2009. When i try to install the 06/2010 drivers he begins extracting and the installation dosent continues" - That's fishy. Are you sure that on your F11S1E Sony_UK support page there is a 06/2010 Realtek driver? Don't you see any Realtek Audio Driver PCEE Registry Patch?

You said that using headphones changed nothing but then you posted this:

Yap i notice now that the sound dosent come from the speakers/mic...is coming from the bottom center off the screen...

Which one is it?

[ihyln]

Yes...ask Joe Bleau here on the forums, I believe he did it. You buy a specific bay that holds a SATA hard drive and you put it in place on the optical drive.

cool, thank you. I'll contact him.

I found this link

Secondary Drive in the Optical Drive Bay of a VAIO VPCF Series

[Lucror]

So, this is my first post, but I've been following along since about the beginning of part 3.
I purchased a Sony F 12 last week and received it yesterday and wanted to share some thoughts and possibly get feedback.

I got a CTO: i7 840, 1080p, 1gb video, 8gb ram, blu-ray player, 7200rpm 500gb.

First of all, the processor is amazing and I'm happy I went for the 8gb as I've never had Windows 7 before and with it idling it was consistently over 2gb usage.
Second, I did have some reservations about the light bleed and screen from reading this forum. I turned off auto-brightness and added one of the color profiles, this certainly improved things. However, comparing to my sister's Macbook Pro, I am somewhat disappointed in the screen mostly due to the light bleed at the bottom, really only noticeable when it is black. I did do a comparison with the 900p model at Best Buy, the screens looked very similar so I figured there wasn't any unusual or special problem with mine. In conclusion it wasn't bad enough to return.
Thirdly, today after about 6 hours of total use I got the blue screen of death with something to the effect of "beginning dump of physical memory". After a few times I called tech support, and while we tried to run some diagnostics on the memory it rebooted again, so I was transferred to customer service and given an RMA number.
So, it has been a bit of a disappointing weekend, but I'm wondering what to do now. I can't think of another laptop out there with the same specs for even a close price. If I do order another one I'll probably go with the 256gb SSD. I was kinda on the fence with this before.
Thought I'd share since I've received much help by reading this forum. Thanks.

[Joe Bleau]

cool, thank you. I'll contact him.

I found this link

Secondary Drive in the Optical Drive Bay of a VAIO VPCF Series

Check this also: VAIO_F Series Best DIY HDD Upgrade?

[Joe Bleau]

...after about 6 hours of total use I got the blue screen of death with something to the effect of "beginning dump of physical memory". After a few times I called tech support, and while we tried to run some diagnostics on the memory it rebooted again, so I was transferred to customer service and given an RMA number.
...

Memory dump does not mean necessarily memory problems.

Did you check your Start > search: event viewer > Custom Views > Administrative Events? Look for 'Error' or 'Critical' events.

What were you doing when you got your BSOD?

Thanks for taking the time to post your feedback.

[btugalover]

OEM means Original Equipment Manufacturer & OS is Operating system so OEM OS means the custom Win 7 that was installed specifically for your F by_Sony in the factory with all the necessary specific drivers & patches. Clean install means you installed a generic Win 7 OS & we don't know if you installed the proper stuff for your F to work properly.

"The drivers are from 2009. When i try to install the 06/2010 drivers he begins extracting and the installation dosent continues" - That's fishy. Are you sure that on your F11S1E Sony_UK support page there is a 06/2010 Realtek driver? Don't you see any Realtek Audio Driver PCEE Registry Patch?

You said that using headphones changed nothing but then you posted this:



Which one is it?

1. Sorry, not 06/2010 but 02/2010. No, there isnt a "Realtek Audio Driver PCEE Registry Patch". Just a 02/2010 driver update and a 01/2010 original driver. And the name is "Audio Driver (realtek)" for the 02/2010 and "Audio Driver" for the 01/2010.

2. Sorry again. When i posted i forgot to say to you too. It apears that the sound is coming from the bottom center of the display so its very likely a display problem. Laptop Repair Help Screen inverter replacement. Fixing laptop backlight problem.

Something like that, i think. I have no problems with the screen, just the noise, so its probably the inverter problem.