Sony comes clean on faulty 8XXX series Nvidia Chips!

[aviray]

You can add this link Gary
http://genesis.sony-europe.com/instr...sp?DocId=35880
I am happy to see it, it says 4 years from the date of purchase, means for me over 3 years. Since FZ was last model with s video out, so can use it till HD will become new standard for live video and that will be at least 2,3 years more.

[ScuderiaConchiglia]

aviray,

The link doesn't seem to do anything.

Gary

[aviray]

aviray,

The link doesn't seem to do anything.

Gary

yes, I know sent it to a friend and she has same problem. It took several minutes till it appeared on my display. Sony cant even get their websites properly done.
I copied the text and saved as word doc, just in case, after all it is value of 700€ .

[Purehazard]

The SZ is not covered under the 3 year warranty extension. May be not many SZ's have failed due to the defective GPU's.

I guess not enough since SZs generally cost more so they obviously have fewer out there than the other models that are listed, hence, more failures in the other models.

[coolguy]

Y
Since FZ was last model with s video out, so can use it till HD will become new standard for live video and that will be at least 2,3 years more.

FZ with Nvidia 8400M GT has an HDMI out which can output 1080P video.

[Greg]

Whoa now, everyone please chill out. The forum software has definitely been a little odd recently, just little bugs...apparently this is another one.

I'm going to try something with the forum software. Either I'll end up fixing this in a minute, or I'll end up bringing down all the forums for a bit. Let's see what happens .

EDIT: Well, I did not crash the forums but I did crash my web browser. If any description of any of the notebooks are bad, please PM me which description is wrong and please use the notebook's name as the title of the PM. I'll confirm the details on Sony's website and alter the linker tool to reflect the changes.

[Red_Dragon]

Thanks alot man, WOW i have a Sony Vaio AR520 that has a 8400 GT and if you ask me this is a straight lowball......they support the AR1,AR2,AR3, and not the 5? Ridiculous.

[SPEEDwithJJ]

It is great to hear that Sony is finally doing something to the faulty Nvidia GPUs.

However, I feel sorry for those Vaio FZ owners who sold their broken notebooks (some being parted out) for cheap earlier when they encountered this Nvidia GPU problem & Sony did not want to fix it for them for free. I would be very mad if I'm one of them.... This does makes me wonder who had the "genius" foresight to predict this & snap up some of those "broken" Vaio FZs for cheap!

[crash]

Now that this little forum issue has been fixed (thanks Greg), I removed several posts that were related to that and didn't add anything to the thread. As Greg said, if you see this issue popping up again elsewhere, please either report the post or PM a moderator and we'll handle it from there.

Thanks for understanding.

[aviray]

aviray,

The link doesn't seem to do anything.

Gary

Looks like the link works only if you visit the Sony support page before,
Also below official instruction to read the info on Sony Europe- applies to all European countries.

1.go to your support page
http://support.vaio.sony.eu/computin.../hub_cons.html
select your country / language.
2. use the link (can be same or new tab but it will work only if you visited Sony support of select country , before, as described)
http://genesis.sony-europe.com/instr...sp?DocId=35880
The page will open and it will be automatically in language of support page previously selected
P.S.
@coolguy
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