Official Sony SB/SA/SC/SD Series Owners' Thread

[clever_trevor]

Anyone seen this on their SA.

Battery (internal) charges to 99% with charging light illuminated but is not reaching 100% - so orange charging light always on.

Any ideas what this might be ?

(Battery care is disabled & battery condition indicator shows green & excellant)

Cheers,
T

[ptrkhh]

Could anyone please tell me what temperatures they are getting when gaming with the AMD 6630m GPU?

The CPU temp never reach 90 Celcius, while my 3830TG overheat easily in that condition

I am a owner of the Sony SA Series for about a month now. I have noticed several problems so far:

I noticed I have keyboard flex,
I noticed my screen flickers near the top ONLY on the ATI GPU,
I noticed that my keyboard is not even, as in the middle of the keyboard (letters fghj) is higher than letters on the sides (asd,jkl)
I also noticed that my WIFI switch is loose, it moves when I touch it and is saging downwards.

PS: I bought my SA series (640GB HDD, 5400RPM) for a total of $1016 after tax. It also includes the Sheet Battery. PS: This was a Canadian purchase.

In my SA:
1. No
2. No
3. No
4. Yes, a little. Too little to mention.

This was a American purchase (Microsoft Store)

Okay, i even got the speed up to 748mhz, but higher than that and it get's unstable.
3dmark11
stock: P1021, Graphics 903, Physics 3757
Overklocked: P1380, Graphics 1244, Physics 3735

Overklocked scores are actually between the 6750M and 6770M.

This should be on the page one

ok, got my sony sa.a i had a battery problem where i had to hibernate. so i powered it off and pressed "assist" and restarted with no windows recovery or will it boot back to windows. the drive is blank i think.
wassup with that?

Try pressing F10 while in BIOS screen, it will boot from the Recovery Partition

Anyone seen this on their SA.

Battery (internal) charges to 99% with charging light illuminated but is not reaching 100% - so orange charging light always on.

Any ideas what this might be ?

(Battery care is disabled & battery condition indicator shows green & excellant)

Cheers,
T

Re-enable and re-disable the Battery Care Function, sometimes when you enable or disable the Battery Care, it doesn't applied, probably because a bug in Sony Battery Care..

[clever_trevor]

Re-enable and re-disable the Battery Care Function, sometimes when you enable or disable the Battery Care, it doesn't applied, probably because a bug in Sony Battery Care..

Thanks,

I tried that & made no difference.

Also, I contacted Sony who suggested removing & re-inserting battery.

However, the problem is slightly worse now, charges to 96% & indicates 'still charging' plus charging light iluminated but never reaches 100%.

I am beginning to suspect a faulty battery but how do I diagnose that, any ideas?

Cheers,
T

[Mijae]

So, I just installed a second HDD replacing the optical drive and I'd like to know if there is anything else I should configure?

When I turn on the notebook, I have this small icon that says the CD/DVD/BD is on, and I can't turn it off. I think the HDD is permanently on, so it gets a little warmer now.

Is this ok?

[lazybee]

So, I just installed a second HDD replacing the optical drive and I'd like to know if there is anything else I should configure?

When I turn on the notebook, I have this small icon that says the CD/DVD/BD is on, and I can't turn it off. I think the HDD is permanently on, so it gets a little warmer now.

Is this ok?

I've done what I could to look into this, as I have the same setup. It appears that because of the positioning ( In the DVD bay ) the Sony software refuses to recognise the drive as a Hard Drive, and as such will never cut power to the SATA connectors.

I have not had time to test this theory, but I believe if the Sony software was removed you would be able to set the sleep timer through Windows 7 power management and the disk should spin down when not used.

Either way, the idle power drain is minimal, although I can be sure we would all appreciate a way to spin down the second drive. If you can live without having any Sony software then perhaps you will be able to cool down the laptop the majority of the time.

[jeremyshaw]

The setting to turn it off is to set the sony software to "auto" on the Optical Bay power management (right click on the tray icon that gives you the notification).

[ashishkesari87]

yesterday i found that my optical drive is not working...cleaned with lens cleaner cd-rom but of no use. is there any software bug?

also today while playing NFS HOT PURSUIT 2 it switched off automatically and the base was superhot...

sb16fg is my model.

[rescares]

Hi,

I have bought a SA and I performed a clean W7 installation.
The only problem I have is that after installing all Sony stuff, the HDD protection from the VAIO Control Center is not available.

Does someone know what driver/file controls this feature?

Thanks!

[nutral]

This is awesome, with the overklock battlefield 3 is running at high, with 1366x768 resolution.

[Nautis]

When I turn on the notebook, I have this small icon that says the CD/DVD/BD is on, and I can't turn it off. I think the HDD is permanently on, so it gets a little warmer now.

I have not had time to test this theory, but I believe if the Sony software was removed you would be able to set the sleep timer through Windows 7 power management and the disk should spin down when not used.

Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services -> VAIO Power Management -> Stop Service (or disable service & reboot) and see if the problem is still there. This of course disables all of the other Sony specific power management stuff.