Official Sony VAIO AW Series 18.4" Owners thread

Hi I know where .. on ebay .. I have bought 2x4GB in July samsung and they are nice ok .. 140 pounds

 

140 pounds per 4gb? Cheapest I can find are:

G.SKILL 8GB (2 x 4GB) 200-Pin DDR2 SO-DIMM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) $289

 

nooo
I bought 8Gb for 140 pounds !

 

Really, can you still find them anywhere or where they secondhand?

 

That I was in right time and in right place actually it was quite difficult
It was selling on ebay with offer best price so I been in treaty with seller he 3 times decilined me etc .. etc .. item ended .. i told him please relist them
I asked him for 100 if he will be satisfied with this price he said no I went up and up and he stops at 140 I immediatelly bought them ...

 

Would you be satisfied with 667 ?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/8GB-2-X-4GB-D...mory_RAM_ET?hash=item1e58ce72a1#ht_2717wt_940

 

Thanks, bought them.

 

Thank you, falang. Add 1 rep to your account

I've read product description and apparently designer is advertising neat effects on wide-gamut screens. I think it's worth a try.

For now I managed to get a free spectrophotometer calibration by a friendly DTP studio.

Sony Vaio RGB LED screen is indeed nice, but I must say greens and reds on Firefox are burning my eyes. And this with 40% brightness. I hope calibration helps here.

As for a calibration-seeking people, the cheapest spectrophotometer I was able to find is Color Munki, though reviews say it has too simple design and not so many options. Real stuff starts from 1200$.

 

Hey, just upgraded to Windows 7 on my VGN-AW190. All the drivers installed successfully, with the exception of "Base System Device", I have no idea what this pertains to since everything seems to be working. Below is a picture of the devices Hardware ID's if that helps. Anyone have an idea what what it is?

 

Okay got this text message last night:

Hairy a** f*** ur comp mine u cant do s*** blue frame smartr than ur lameass spysweeper ha ha ha

I'm under the impression dark blue frames are better than light blue frames in the newest versions of Firefox and Windows-currently frames are dark blue, sometimes when I have these stalking and hacking issues frames are light blue-anybody have any feedback on this?

 

Hi,
Does anyone know of a case/cover to fit the AW41 ?

I'm not after a proper laptop bag, more of a slip on cover...much like you would buy for mobile phones, just to keep dust and any spillages off etc..

Thanks
Phil

 

Hi so did you bought them ?
those from ebay what I gave you link ?

 

I have just checked the VAIO update and there's new BIOS R1054Y2 can anyone conform this is OK to use with AW11XU. Cheers

 

Have it installed on my AW11Z. It should work with all AW models.

 

VGP-AMC8 is the official sleeve.

There are lots of unofficial ones on eBay and Amazon.

 

Thats the "Ricoh Memory Stick Host Controller"

You'll find the driver for it in my AW drivers thread. See sig.

 

If you don't get anywhere send me a PM.

 

Bought them from the same seller in the US.

BTW, does nobody else have the random boot problems. After installing the new Bios my AW keeps booting up in the middle of the night. Happens every day now.

 

In the power plan advanced settings there's an option for wake timers. On mine this is enabled by default. I never left it on enabled long enough to see if this would do what happens to yours. Try setting this to disabled.

 

Thanks, turned it off and I'll see what happens.

Also found this page:

http://jack.ukleja.com/fix-for-windows-7-random-wake-from-sleep-problem/

But I'm using wireless, so that shouldn't be possible?

 

Thanks, all is well now!

 

Thanks for the confirmation

 

I think I've got the internet stalking issues under control. But, for future reference, even though this is an AW290 premium is there another thread or department which is more suited to deal with severe stalking issues of the type I wrote about?

 

Anyone try these drivers? Are there any bad side effects installing the nvidia drivers rather than sticking to the sony default drivers?

Thanks!

 

Which drivers?

If you're talking about VGA drivers from laptopvideo then there might be issues. The Fn brightness keys may not work and WinDVD may not play. Both are issues I had when using unofficial drivers.

 

"New video drivers Nvidia 186.81 "

I am asking if anyone installed the drivers from nvidia's website for 9600M GT

 

SS DAMNED SONY PEOPLE REALLY !!!!!!!! TO THE HELL WITH THEM !

THEY SENT ME THIS EMAIL
WHAT DO YOU THINK PEOPLE OF THEM ?????

Dear Mr,

Thank You for contacting Sony Vaio-Link Support

Regarding the issue with your unit, please note that your model it doesnt have RAID controller, so it is not possible to use in RAID mode. Unfortunately we can only support the devices and the features preinstalled in your unit.

We apologize about any problem this could create in you. We work for the highest quality Standard, but we can not support not pre-installed hardware.

If you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact us on
0870 240 2408 (within the warranty period) or 09050310006 (outside the warranty period)

 

Am Going Sell This SIT On Ebay And Buy Some Normal Laptop Where
Are Not F**cking Idiots And Dont Mess With Any Advanced Menu !!
Or I Buy Vaio Z And Will Hack Bios!! and will show them to suckers in sony !!

NEVER GUYS WANT SOMETHING FROM THEM THEY LYING OR WONT MESS WITH PEOPLE ..

 

They won't install unless you modify the .inf file.

And you mostly likely disable the brightenss keys and WinDVD as mentioned above.

You can download a modified .inf file from laptopvideo.

 

If you do sell I might be interested in your upgrades, that's if you still have the original parts ones to put back in the laptop.

 

Heh
All old parts gone on ebay
but all upgrades cost me .. and that sata cable .. ooh why i ordered it ..

 

IS IT POSSIBLE THAT YOU CAN TAKE PICTURE (PROPERLY) OF THAT YOUR SATA CABLE FROM FIRST BAY ? I REALLY NEED TO COMPARE ..
SOMEBODY TOLD ME THAT I NEED EVEN DIFFERENT SATA CABLE WHICH WILL SWITCH ON RAID AS WELL

 

Is there any real reason for me to worry about RAID or any other advanced settings I currently don't use on the AW290 premium?

Here are my main uses:

writing/word processing
web surfing
video playback
blu ray playback
dvd burning
blu ray burning (but this is such a hassle I don't do it-if there were click to disc blu ray it would be so much better-as it is each file must be individually burned with one of several third party programs-I have tried but never successfully yet have burned a blu ray for archive purposes)
audio playback

My computer skills are pretty rudimentary.

By the way regarding the stalking issues and hacking issues SpySweeper is opening a case file-among other things they're unhappy someone can turn their program off remotely (happened again this morning as I was out shopping for groceries) so it should be interesting to see what they come up with as a solution.

 

YOU DONT REALISE HOW BEAUTIFUL PERFORMANCE YOU CAN ACHIEVE WITH TWO SSDS IN RAID ??
WHAT U SAY : YOU CAN HAVE 2 INTELL SSDS AND YOU CAN HAVE 500MB/S SPEED read AND 200 MB/S write ?
OR 2 SAMSUNG SSD 400MB/S READ 350MB/S WRITE?

 

I don't have SSD's-I have two 320 GB hard drives @7200 rpm for a total of 640 GB, 585 GB of that actually usable for my purposes.

The reasons I got the AW290 were the following: LED display, true 16:9 screen (I really hope to get a 21:9 HDTV at some point when they become more common), Adobe color management (haven't used it yet) Blu Ray read/write (but the write part really isn't practical yet), 4 GB memory, 2.66 GHZ processor (pretty sure that's the option I got), beautiful design, maybe a few other things but really I'm just a guy who likes to write, web surf and watch blu ray, video and music-I don't even play computer games and never really have-not a huge interest of mine-oh, and the occassional video-I am a guy, after all...

The only complaints I really have other than the stalking and hacking (not Sony's fault) are cosmetic-wrist pad bubbling up, small panel on top lid chipping paint, silver paint chipping in front-would be nice to get that stuff fixed but it is liveable and well worth having a computer with these features over one that would be cosmetically perfect in every way but couldn't match these features.

 

You dont have it in raid ??
Rodney will you swap aw with mine ?? D

 

I'll swap your CPU for my SATA cable + CPU

 

Well what would would RAID do for me?

 

I have ordered that sata cable and I will receive it probably next week
and I need to know if it is same as you have or different

 

Good things
put two your hdds togehter with raid stripe you make two hdds into one and performance will be much better one time faster

 

I'll take a pic of my cable this weekend. Just opened the box for my new camera DMC-FZ38. Will give me a chance to test it.

 

Hello all.... i have a VGN-AW11Z/B and i dropped it, landing on the corner where the power cable goes in....

all still works, but the power cable housing, the inch long cylinder bit... is wobbly, is this part of the entire vaio case... or a separate part? anybody know before i start getting dangerous with a screwdriver?

 

I have sony T700 and its great and when i take shot in macro extreme its very nice detail

 

Okay so RAID makes the hard drives faster-but the thing is none of the applications I use even require that.

 

everything what you doing on your computer will require that better response
better access speedy loading from hdd/ssd going everything

 

My RAID is nice but for the apps you listed there would be little or no performance increase. Your OS might be a tad faster perhaps, in short it's nothing to lose sleep over.

For instance in your current setup you will get great HD video playback off of your optical drive anyway. If you wanted to edit uncompressed video then a RAID would be a great help.

 

I'm writing a movie:

www.myspace.com/370392338

and a TV series, but I know next to nothing about editing HD video or that aspect of it. Someone else's department entirely.

Love watching Blu Ray movies though and other HD programs. Too bad the HDTV tuner and the computer itself are not capable of receiving HD cable signals.

The other thing is my skills are so rudimentary in computers I don't even understand HTML. I don't think I want to start messing around under the hood without the foggiest notion of what I'm doing.

 

Finally I've successfully installed Windows 7 Professional with each function key working and no crapware on my AW290J. Thanks a lot to Mujja for all those drivrs/softwares/utilities. I'll open a thread on HOW TO for installing Windows 7 on AW later.

 

Is it able to update the bios from R1054Y2 Slic 2.0 to R1054Y2 Slic 2.1 on Sony Vaio AW11Z/B .I have extracted the neccesarry files out from EP0000208467-SLIC_2.1.exe but it says bios has soon the current revision.No need to update...
I need just the command promt wich ovverride this.

http://forums.mydigitallife.info/showthread.php?p=166321 #1968

 

damak: Go here and download R3072Y2 which includes SLIC 2.1 for Win7 OEM Activation and VT support. If it says you already have the latest version then you are ok. However you may want to check whether you have 2.1 SLIC or not. There is a tool for checking this. Try Google for it.