Sony Vaio CB Official Owners' Thread

[namaiki]

Try download the driver from the Sony website.

[shubham_2206]

Try download the driver from the Sony website.

That would rollback AMD driver to the oldest one.

[valrond]

If that doesn't work. Uninstall all of the AMD drivers from the control panel, download driver sweeper from here: Phyxion.net - Driver Sweeper
Restart in safe mode, and run driver sweeper, clean all of the AMD drivers.
Finally, reinstall the official Sony drivers.

That worked for me.

[Icelego]

Mine is VPCCB190X:


I have a HDD caddy on the way so I can replace the DVD drive with the HDD I took out.

hi guys,

anyone knows where can I buy a hard drive caddy for my VPC-CB190X model? Have been searching everywhere but no luck....

Thanks a lot!

[valrond]

hi guys,

anyone knows where can I buy a hard drive caddy for my VPC-CB190X model? Have been searching everywhere but no luck....

Thanks a lot!

Yes. A hard drive caddy and a bluray usb adaptor is a much better combination. I don't use the optical drive all that much, but I'm constantly using one or even two USB hard drives.

[valrond]

My temperatures have spiked, specially the ones from the core i5. They rarely got higher than 60ºC (140ºF), but now they reach up to 77ºC (170ºF). I changed the thermal paste to my old trusty Artic Silver 3, but they remained the same. So I bought some Noctua NH-1T (or something like that) that is supposed to be the best, but I've only got like 4º C better in the CPU and 1-2ºC in the GPU while on load.

I also bought a Coolermaster notepal U2, I have put both fans under the main intake, but to no effect.

Any ideas?

[valrond]

BTW, It's not only because of the increase in temperatures, I received this computer on july of last year.

[rsto]

Just a quick question: how long does it take for your vaio to boot?
I have disabled all the startup item except for Realtek , Eset SS5, Synaptics driver and Catalyst and most non-microsoft services (except for VaioCare, Event service and Smart network) and the full boot takes up to 2 minutes. Even settings like no GUI boot don't improve the miserable performance by much...
Is it possible to install/load/use EFI instead of BIOS?

I've got august 2011 model with i5 2410m, 4gb ram and hd 6630 gpu.
Thanks in advance for your answers

[shubham_2206]

Just a quick question: how long does it take for your vaio to boot?
I have disabled all the startup item except for Realtek , Eset SS5, Synaptics driver and Catalyst and most non-microsoft services (except for VaioCare, Event service and Smart network) and the full boot takes up to 2 minutes. Even settings like no GUI boot don't improve the miserable performance by much...
Is it possible to install/load/use EFI instead of BIOS?

I've got august 2011 model with i5 2410m, 4gb ram and hd 6630 gpu.
Thanks in advance for your answers

You can also disable Catalyst if you don't switch graphics too frequently.

[pauldmps]

Does anyone know how to remove the keyboard of this thing?
I really need to clean the keyboard.