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If you run win8, ms supplies usb3 drivers with the os. You need to customize the inf-files of the intel ext.host usb3 drivers to install them on win8 and if you run the 64-bit version, you either need a custom signature certificate for your modified driver or run the os in testmode.

The ibtel drivers does work a whole lot better than the integrated ms ones though. Far better performance and the annoyinh hibernate-bug isn't present and usb memorysticks and ssd's not oroperly recognized oåby the ms driver just works on the intel one...

 

I am getting broken pixels on my screen, two small lines (<1 inch, and <0.5 inch) on my screen. No abnormal contact with the screen, and the cracks/broken pixel area is getting bigger just in normal use. I need my laptop for the rest of this semester and then a 6 week study abroad. How long would it take for sony to fix and will it be covered by warrenty? Any input or experience with the customer service reps at Sony? While I am gone in spain I think I will pass the 1 year deadline from my purchase date as well. Will they allow me to report it now but delay sending it in to be fixed? It should be covered since I didn't drop it or treat it any differently than I have in the past 9 months of having it.

 

Sorry to hear that, I know what it is like living without a computer.

Sony sends out a box next day shipping or something like that, you should get it back about 1 week after you ship it to them. I suppose if they don't have the part in stock it could be longer.

If you purchased directly from Sony I think the warranty is 1 year so you better take care if it now however painful it may be.

 

Accessing all the hidden options like LAN WAKE UP / Intel VT-d ... as it has been done for previous vaio Z models.

 

Intel virtualization, even the d can be activated in stock bios under the 'Intel Virtualization Technology' make sure it reads 'enabled'. The WoL function can be activated in Windows by entering 'device management' and changing the advanced options for the realtek gbit network adaptor. Even magic packets are supported. If you dont find the options, make sure your using up-to-date realtek gbit lan drivers. Good luck

 

Hey guys,

When I power it up, it shows that it's powered on, but I don't hear it going into windows and the screen won't turn on and after about 10 seconds the fan becomes ridiculously loud and blows out cold air. What should I do? I am extremely worried as I have alot of important data, most of which are my notes I really need for my exam in 1 week. I called Sony and they suggest I hate it to a repair shop they have certified under then (E-link)

Help would be greatly appreciated!

 

Can you see anything on the screen, Vaio logo, anything? Or is it just black?

Have you tried starting it with the Assist button to access the built-in recovery partition? You can do backup from there... If it's just dead in the water, then I'm sorry. Sony uses a prorietary non-standard sata-contact for their ssd's (Vaio Z3) which means it can be difficult to do a backup of the disks using another system but the Vaio Z2/3.

 

Hello I have a vaio SVZ with mc7710 LTE aircard. I would like to use an mc7700 instead, as it is supposedly compatible with at&amp;t LTE in the USA. Is there a mini-pcie whitelist in the BIOS and is the mc7700 allowed? If not is there a modded BIOS to allow any aircard?

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Sorry to hear that.
I had this issue when I upgraded the BIOS, then refused the reboot and simply closed the lid. After that my laptop went to sleep mode and never came back. I had to ship it to Sony service, they replaced the mainboard.
But firstly they forgot to initialize the mainboard data like sn, tag id and model number. I had to ship it again to Sony service. In my experience it is faster to ship it directly with overnight Fedex box (they will send it to you on request) than dropping off at Sony Store. One week vs two weeks (I tried both options because of Sony mistake)

 

There is no whitelist, so you can just replace MC7710 with MC7700. I'm looking for MC7710, if you don't need yours one I would be happy to buy it. Please PM me if you are interested

 

You can find the mc7710 at&t US firmware in the 'firmware' folder of the sierra wireless air card watcher folder on your stock sony vaio z ms windows 7 installation. C:\program files\sierra wireless\air card watcher\firmware Execute the firmware.exe for us at&t on win 7 safe modw w/networking. Just hit f8 when the win 7 logo first appears under POST from cold boot and you'll see the menu where you can select safe mode w/networking. Good luck

 

Thanks. Would this firmware support At&amp;T US 4G LTE or only up to 3G?

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Anyone been able to recover Imagination studio suite after a clean install on windows 7? Would love to get the video editing software back.

 

AT&T, T-Mobile (US & EU), Verizon, Generic LTE, etc. You'll certainly find a firmware that supports you 4G ISP. The MC7710 is pretty good. A little high on radiation, so might want to consider keeping it off your lap, like with any high-frequency radio-transmitter, as they kill your sperm, but apart from that, performance is top notch. A better alternative than Sierra Wireless (as the FCC requirements are so slack that you might find yourself at risk) is Huawei, the Chinese supplier, as their performance is on par with Sierra, yet their transmit power and radiation is much, much less. (a Chinese advantage that has landed Huawei lots of problems in the USA btw, as the telecom (Verizon, AT&T, etc.)'s lobbyists have gotten the corrupt congress and government to de facto ban Huawei in the US, due to them being 'Chinese')...

 

Hello ,

I have a Vaio SVZ1311 , and i want to know if it's possible to upgrade the ssd with a 512 go model like this one : DriveSolutions.com

Has anyone trying to do this ?

My Z is a french one , with 256 go SSD.

Do you know if it's possible to put a mpcie card with wifi and bluetooth in the wwan port ? Because i think that this mpcie port is a special one , with a usb innterface.

Thanks

 

The SSD is a proprietary Sony one. Need to get the partnumber off of them hen you might find a cheaper one sold on ebay or sumethin' other than that, buy it from Sony....


Mpcie - yes, you can, though the SVZ1311 comes stock with the Intel 6235 BT4/Wi-Fi-n card, so dnno why you'd want a second one... That mpcie-slot can be used for an extra ssd, an lte modem or an upgraded eGPU setup.... Your choice...

 

Hello to All! Has anyone tried pre-released AMD driver for W8 Sony eSupport - Electronics - Drivers & Software I did found this driver on Sony Community forum VPCZ2390X video driver for windows 8 - Sony Community. Sony promised to release final driver up to March 2013....

 

It works. Even hot plug/unplug works without reboot.
Thanks for the link.

 

What about switching between graphic adapters without reboot?

 

It works
But you have to install this patch while dock is connected. Otherwise installer will not detect ATI hardware and will not install necessary software.

 

It works
But you have to install this patch while dock is connected. Otherwise installer will not detect ATI hardware and will not install necessary software.

 

which version of ATI's driver is it? At least 13.1 I hope?

 

hehehe,
Driver date: 8/28/2012
Driver version: 8.982.10.0

But at least, it works. Better than nothing.

 

Thank you. I have a favour to ask of you please reboot the notebook without the PMD, connect it after W8 will be booted. Now please check which graphic adapter working. If AMD you can fully manage it through Catalyst Control Centre.

 

Using Catalyst 13.4 on Windows 8 Pro. Seems stable enough. Not as stable as 13.1 though - I've experienced one random PMD related BSOD on POST-boot from cold. That BSOD error is circumvented by booting without PMD connected. The error occurs only when the system hasn't shut down correctly, AFAIK. So, not a major problem. The good thing about leshcat's 13.4 driver is that it is finally shipped with a digital signature, so you don't need to have Windows test-mode enabled, and you can use the UEFI-safe boot option of Win8 if you'd like. The bad thing sbout this though is that without test mode, you're stuck with those awful MS drivers for the Intel USB3 host controller..


leshcatlabs.net &larr; Keeping it Simple. Ads free. is the site where you can download the 13.4 driver package. Use the version 1 drivers, as the version 2 doesn't seem to work AT ALL...

 

Yes, it works even if I boot without PMD and then connect it.

 

I will be visiting the San Francisco bay area next week and I am looking to have the sim connector/socket in my SVZ repaired. I already acquired a board with the replacement sim holder and I just need it desoldered and transferred into my computer's daughterboard. Can anyone recommend a good electronics repair place that does SMT rework-type soldering in the bay area?

PS: the replacement board I acquired is an IFX581 from a Z2. SIM socket the same but the board is incompatible with my SVZ. With it installed the machine will not start and the battery will not charge! The SIM daughterboard inside the SVZ is an IFX613. Unfortunately these are not yet sold on Ebay.

 

WOW! fantastic!!!! New AMD driver was released and available on Sony site

 

the one linked a couple posts ago or another?

 

it was prereleased. now it is final.

 

So you guys that installed windows 8... What drivers and on which order did you installed them??

Did you guys use the VAIO Upgrade Tool??

how is the performance compared with windows 7?

 

On par with Windows 7. Slightly lower ssd performance, even when using the latest Intel RST drivers. All drivers, no particular order. (except F6 Intel driver during W8 install, as first one...) Did not use VAIO Upgrade Tool. System runs smooth, all programs I used on Windows 7 runs fine.

 

Sorry multi post

 

Sorry multi post

 

I lost my Bluetooth when i upgraded to windows 8.. i reloaded the wireless and Bluetooth drivers and still not showing up in device manager.

 

You need switch on Bluetooth before upgrading W8

 

Any other way?? im in windows 8 already dont really want to reload windows =(

 

No. You can do it only in W7

 

thats dumb...i think my best bet would be to install windows 7 on a external drive or something like that... so i dont have to reload

 

is it possible to upgrade the wireless card in this sony? like to a ac model or something?

 

I'm still beating my head against the wall trying to install Ubuntu 13.04 on my Z 1131. I've had the computer for a while and would like to dual boot with the existing Windows 7 install. I really dread the time and headache of reformatting and reinstalling a ton of software and files. Is it possible to resize the existing RAID 0 partition? I could not see how.

The best possible solution would be to install Ubuntu on a 64gb SD card, since that slot is always free, but it looks like booting from that is not supported in BIOS. Second choice is an external flash drive, which I can do now, but with only two USB slots that would be less than optimal.

 

@BrianRunsPhilly: I suggest using acronis diskmanager to resize the present partition. I did this to gain space for a secondary OS and had no problems.

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You can shrink the system partition with the built-in disk management program in Win7, (administrative tools - computer management - disk management) though note that you'll have to delete one partition anyway if your running stock, as the drive is already populated with boot partition, recover partition, system partition and hibernate partition. I recommend skipping the hibernate function and delete that partition, it's also the end-partition of the disk, which allows you to increase its size from the system-partition to make more than 8GB available for Linux. Keeping the recovery-partition is my recommendation, as it's nice to have, even though it takes up quite a lot of space.

 

Anyone know where I can buy this aside from eBay?

 

no frickin' clue, but I hope you'll find it. It's an AWESOME(!) laptop. But mind you, Haswell is being released now and by the looks of it, there will be Vaio Z competitors being brought forward with Haswell that is probably cheaper even than a reimbursed Z3 found on eBay...

I think it was Asus (or Samsung, I don't remember) I saw just a fortnight ago that released or announced a new ultrabook with Haswell (50% better battery and 100% GPU improvement over Ivy Bridge) with dual-ssd RAID, full-HD(or better) IPS panel. Dunno if it was low voltage cpu or not though... Anyway, they're coming...

With that said though, the Sony Vaio Z3 is just AWESOME!!!

 

Sony eSupport - SVZ13116GXX - Drivers & Software

Updated and massive driver update for the PMD, nearly half a gig :\

downloading now, will post to see if the drivers are any newer than the ones posted earlier in the thread.

 

It's Catalyst 13.1 on AMD/ATI side (yay) and 2884 on Intel side (boo)

 

Would getting the PMD solely for video editing purposes be worth it? I use Sony Vegas and it has GPU acceleration, and I was wondering if it would be a significant enough upgrade over the Intel HD 4000 to make it worth it.

 

Probably not (performance wise) but if you need more USB ports, the PMD has one USB 3.0 and two USB 2.0 ports for a total of four USB ports (incl. the one available on the laptop when the dock is in use). Also, you get a DVD or BD burner which could be nice if you make movies/videos. One extra gbit ethernet is also on the port, plus HDMI if you use (or is thinking uf using) more than one monitor.

Purely hardware performance wise though, the upgrade is probably not worth the cost. Rendering is probably very fast anyway with the laptop CPU and whatever performance gain there is from GPU acceleration (if it's not DXVA which the Intel card also supports) is probably very costly considering you could get a whole lot of nice hardware/gadgets/vacation trips/gifts for spouse/whatever for the cost of that docking station.

 

Would this work for those of us who stuck with Windows 7 x64 instead of Windows 8?