Official VAIO E Series Owners Thread

There's a huge difference between Colaba and New Delhi. Colaba and Santacruz in Mumbai are bang next to the sea, and are like 30ish most of the year around. I'm in Delhi, which deep inside the country, is one of the hottest places in India and it goes to like 45 in peak summers. No kidding. You need AC's all the damn time, everywhere. It's the middle of winter right now in Delhi and the outdoor temps are still 25-30 degrees. My idle temps have dropped 2-3 degrees as you can see in the screenshot.

 

I followed the instuctions that locthebard posted a few days ago to open the case and blow the dust today. Surprisingly, there was practically no visible dust. However, I saw a little when blowing air directly at the fan and its ducts. I put the laptop back together and turned it on. The system fan is now dead silent and CPU temperature is around 40C. Thanks for the advise. By the way I have owned this portable for >18 months and this is the first time I opened it to blow dust.

 

While opening my laptop to blow dust I also took out the hard drive. The hard drive brand is Seagate Momentus 5400.6 500GB. I looked over at amazon and saw 5400 and 7200RPM 750GB Seagate Momentus sold for just over $100. Would anyone of you recommend this upgrade? Will switching to 7200RPM hard drive cause any problems? I don't care too much about increasing RPM, but I personally could have used additional 200GB. My hard drive is split into like 5 partitions and I have 2 operating systems installed. Sometimes space is being a little tight on some partitions. My hard drive is occasionally making clicking noises and the software freezes. I am afraid it may be going bad. This has been happening for several months though.

 

Does anyone know whether it's possible to upgrade the i3 VAIOs EB models to i5 CPU? I noticed those being sold online. Is the motherboard of i3 and i5 VAIO VPC-EB models the same?

 

zakoh, i can't confirm it, but i know the CPU socket is the same. be sure to have some thermal compound paste ready, because you will need it to apply over the cpu metal casing. the old cpu is glued into the heatsink, so be careful not to force it too much getting it out. I haven't done the operation myself, because it's too expensive for my nose.

5400? that's slow. also .6 means 6th generation, and if you look at the seagate page, well, they've gone past that.
i've bought momentus XT 500gb for my dad's laptop, it's a hybrid 4gb flash+500gb hdd. This is probably the fastest laptop hdd money can buy, but a bit pricey for a hdd. It also seems to turn itself off when there isn't a lot to do.

SSDs are the way to go if you can dig the cash, but the XT is a decent compromise. google some reviews in case i'm wrong.

If both are too pricey, any 7200 rpm harddrive will do, just make sure to copy your recovery partition. use something like acronis disk image or whatever disk cloning software. The faster it spins, the lesser the access time, so data is delivered quicker where it should. Does not necessarely affect copy and moving operations. 5400 may be slightly more resistant to mechanical shocks, but the difference would be minute.

power considerations: that hdd, being old, may draw quite a lot of power. If battery life is an issue, look for one that has a lower amperage rating. A typical value is 0,6A (600mA). a bad value is 800mA or more. Some disks, especially "green series" and the like, may go down to 0,4A. SSDs don't necessarely save that much power. Should they actually declare the power(rare), the amp rating is W/5. a difference of 300mA from old vs new may get you 10-15 min extra battery life, depending on battery size. Usually low power trades off performance. bigger the drive, more juice.

Based on that, there are no real drawbacks to changing to a faster hdd/ssd if you do the cloning process and reconstruct the master boot record (means you can swap them and your PC will boot as nothing would've happened). Everything here is a software operation. use an external usb or esata harddrive rack to connect to your disk. If you feel more hairy, you can connect these directly to a desktop power supply and make the cloning with a desktop pc. manlier still, get 5V from 2usbs (you need a twin cable, or a solder iron), and get a sata-esata desktop PC braket and esata-esata cable (or sata-esata if you're lucky to find one). the last one is if you have no desktop pc, and no external hdd.

Furthermore, if anyone can still help me with voltmodding the BIOS to set my ati5650 to 1V, i'd be much obliged.

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@CrazedMonk> Would you care to share some heat? -3 here.

 

Well, i opened up my EB and cleaned the heatsink and the fans too, but it doesnt helped much... The fan isnt so loud anymore, but i think its still noisy...
Temperature are a little bit lower, like 3-5 °C when idleing.

Do you have maybe any other idea what else can i do?

thx

 

Cleaned out with what?

 

I will keep my eye on this. I wouldn't say that I am hungry for more CPU power, but if the price of a compatible mobile i5 CPU becomes half of what it is today. I could try upgrading it. I need to do more research on this though..

It's not the fastest, but good for my needs. I can see myself getting a bigger hard drive. I am not sure if buying a "green" hard drive would make a huge difference considering that battery run time is so bad. I am getting something like 2 hours..

 

With water...

No, I'm just jokeing... I cleaned it with a soft brush and compressed air.

 

Does the fan itself constantly make a rough noise, as if it was grabbing something? It could be that the fan bearings are destroyed. Ask somebody with electrotech/mech experience to confirm it. Or post a video; first idle, then launch a game or 3D CADCAM.You can buy replacement fans, but they are a bit steep in laptops (50$/£20/25€ . Sometimes they only sell the fan, not the whole casing. VAIO use axial fans, that's the least i can tell you. P/N may be inscribed on it.
If that's not it, try these, in order of difficulty:

try raising your laptop(it will also help your posture) on the desk by putting it on some books, leaving it space to cool from underneath. Don't block the left side where the exhaust is. leave 35cm clearance.

try making/buying a laptop cooling pad. Making is fun n easy; use whatever surface available (packaging carton, plastic chopping board) and a regular 12/14cm fan that runs on 12V DC from any external adapter you might have.

open it up and clean fan+case with pure rubbing alcohol (>80% vol) or electronics grade isopropyl alcohol (sometimes found in lens and CD cleaners). gently pat with cotton earbuds. The less alcohol C%, the longer the dry time.

You can run with the laptop without backcover, but this has the added risk in that if you drop or spill anything, bye bye laptop.

100% warranty-voiding> if you don't move arround your laptop much, you could try a more extreme solution by cutting the case strategically to ensure better airflow. note that the metal plates also act as ground and shielding so you do this at your own risk.

if the fan is indeed broken, and are afraid to pry it open, there are worldwide sony authorised services and they may actually do it for you for free (you still have to pay the transport)

@zakoh>
2nd gen intel does not work 100% (all processors labelled 2xxx).
quadcore q720 *should* work, because there are other laptops with the HM55 that have it. advice against it, due to lower frequency (1,6GHz !) Bigger quadcores have a higher thermal declared power, so it's a gamble.

 

my laptop goes with bluetooth problem, even i tried to uninstall the driver in driver manager, and find the driver over internet. but still no response.

does anyone has any recommended link for sony vaio VPCEA36FG bluetooth driver?

 

You should check on the support site.

 

I have the vpceb2zoe and i have a few problems, i had to change hard drive as i bought faulty and now have no recover partition or discs, can anyone tell me if it is possible to download the recovery discs somewhere or would anyone like to make me some and i would pay.

thanks mark

 

Took apart my Vaio EB yesterday. Now having read somewhere that while decent thermal paste should last forever, laptop manufacturers don't aim for "decent" but would rather have you buy a new one anyway after a couple of years.

My theory was that after one and a half years of semi daily usage the thermal paste seemed to have turned on it, providing horrible heat dissipation. Or at least so I thought.

While in there I noted that it looked like the CPU could be changed. It looked like a socket with a screw and not something completely soldered on. I did not try to remove it, however, so I can't tell for sure. The CPU did not have an IHS, nor did the GPU. Don't know if that's common in laptops and I don't know if a laptop processor directly from the manufacturer will have one or not.

Changing the thermal paste worked for me a little, but eventually, while running a game, the CPU throttled down to ~940MHz again. (Of course both GPU and CPU share the same TINY almost non-existant heatsink). I don't recall this ever happening when the laptop was new, so am a bit at a loss here on why I can't fix it.

edit:

Interesting. I didn't bother removing that cover, assuming it was as clean as the outwards appearance suggested. But maybe I missed this hidden clog. Darn.. need to disassemble the laptop once more, then xD

edit2: opened up and checked. Not much dust at all. I did clean out the little I found so now it's squeaky clean. Idle temps still already ramping up towards 50c...

Oh well it's due for a replacement once Ivy Bridge hits.

 

I have a Vaio VPC-EA3X which is about 12 months old, with a 500Gb 5400rpm HDD - I'm going to upgrade this. I can't decide between a Momentus XT hybrid or an SSD - would I see a massive difference with an SSD?

If I go for an SSD, given the laptop is a year old, is there any benefit in going with a SATA III drive (OCZ Vertex 3 series), or should I just get a cheaper SATA II model?

 

I don't know a lot about SSDs and SATA III vs SATA II, but I do know that a Momentus XT doesn't offer much higher performance (for a higher price) than a WD Scorpio Black, and that if you don't need the capacity of a hard drive, an SSD does make a massive difference to the performance.

 

Then I think it will be an SSD. So what I need to know now is... will a SATA III SSD be slowed down by the SATA controller on the motherboard?

 

Definitely get the SSD, if your mobo supports SATA III it's worth it

Do you know which motherboard you have?

 

I need some help finding the warranty documentation.

I live in Ontario, but bought a VPC-EB2UFX/BI from Newegg.com in 2010 and had a friend bring it up to Canada. The warranty (which I'm pretty sure is international, correct me if I'm wrong) expired September this year, and then the laptop stopped booting past the windows logo in November... Tried almost everything and then took it to CanadaComputers to get a diagnosis. They said that the problem is most likely a faulty HDD SATA connector on the motherboard so the whole mobo needed to be replaced.
I was about to sell it for dirt cheap when I realized that my credit card offers an extended one year warranty! The only thing is that they require "original warranty documentation". I have the invoice from newegg but I can't seem to find this warranty documentation anywhere. Anyone know where I can get it?

One more question... while trying to fix my laptop, I opened it up multiple times and completely wiped the harddrive (I did all this because I did not know about the extended warranty at the time). Do you guys think that this will void the extended warranty?

Any help would be appreciated!

 

No, opening the case and/or wiping the hard drive won't void the warranty. The only documentation I can think of is the generic white or blue card that's supposed to be signed and returned to Sony (which nobody does.) it describes the warranty for ALL Sony products; the SPECIFIC warranty for your laptop is indeed described in the Newegg invoice. So a generic Sony warranty card and the invoice should be all you need. All Sony electronic products are warranteed for one year, unless the invoice says it's refurbished or some such then that should be good enough for the credit card agency.

 

Morning All

I am just wondering if there's a way to open / access the restore partition to see what files are in there? (note i want to do this without actually restoring!)

 

Hi there!

I would like to restore my Dad's Vaio E series to original factory state and have the 2 restore DVDs that were made when he got it, but not a boot CD. The recovery partition is long gone. Do I need a boot CD? Any ideas?

Thanks

***EDIT***

Problem resolved. The 2 DVDs that I had worked, and I didn't need a boot CD. Computer was successfully restored

 

Has anybody foud a way to enable AHCI in the VPCEH sony Vaio??
Im installing and SSD, and want to do a clean AHCI Windows install, any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Is there a way to have a bluetooth speaker going, and at the same time the notebook speakers? I can't seem to find a way.

 

Nevermind, figured it out.
Have to uninstall/disable Intel Rapid Storage driver/application. Laptop/OS then automatically supports and loads AHCI drivers (MSAHCI.sys)

 

Hello guys!

Please tell me if this is a good deal:

VPCEC3CFX/WI used for $410,77 plus shipping $13.73

eBay - New & used electronics, cars, apparel, collectibles, sporting goods & more at low prices

How this model differs from other E series? Cant figure it out...

 

VPCEB1S1E/BJ here, and wondering if someone has the original files of the Sony programs that were pre-installed on the laptop? None of the ones I've downloaded from sony europe website work, cos I don't have the originals installed. The back up copy DVD that I had was faulty, and after a clean install I lost everything.

Specifically looking for those that are required to make Vaio Media Plus work.

 

My laptop is Sony VAIO EB..
Finally I found a way to mod / to edit my Sony VAIO Bios (btw, Sony VAIO use AMI Aptio Bios).
Using mmtool 4.5, I can edit Sony VAIO bios..
I can extract HD 5650m vBios and then edit/mod it (for example overvolt my default gpu voltage) using Radeon Bios Editor.
But I am afraid of flashing my modded bios ( bricked risk), since Sony VAIO Bios Recovery method still become a mystery.
Have anyone (especially Sony VAIO owners) brave enought to try this one, check this out :

Spoiler

Note: MMTOOL is only for AMI Aptio Bios

I am warn you:
!!! DO WITH YOUR OWN RISKS !!!
!!! DO WITH YOUR OWN RISKS !!!
!!! DO WITH YOUR OWN RISKS !!!

 

Maybe. I think I did it once, but can't remember the method.

This method might work, get hold of partition wizard bootable, in your BIOS (hold F2 during startup/POST), make sure that the dvd-rom/bd-rom is set in the first position in Boot Order Priority ( it should be, as that is the default I think ).

Partition Wizard Bootable CD allows user to boot computer directly to manage partition.

Burn a bootable partition wizard, boot to it, find the recovery partition, right click on it, and choose to unhide it. Click apply or execute. Reboot.

You should now be able to assign a Drive letter to your partition in Disk Management. ( google for guides to do this if not sure ). Once a drive letter has been assigned, you should be able to explore it. Either from Computer, as a drive, or just right click on it in disk management, and click explore.

Make sure first you have made recovery disks, and a full system back up, just in case. Make a copy of it to your C drive to order to explore it properly, as you don't want to accidentally make any changes to it.

Bear in mind, once the partition is unhidden, and a drive letter is assigned, it may no longer function as a recovery partition, so after you have explored it, it's probably best to then unassign the drive letter in Windows disk management, & hide it again using partition wizard.

Alternatively,
If you run Vaio recovery, either through Vaio Care, or this path,
C:\Program Files (x86)\Sony\VAIO RECOVERY\VAIORecv.exe,
if you choose re-install programs or drivers, you will be able to see all the software & drivers in the recovery partition.

 

Has anyone ever ran the Realtek HD Audio Manager? And got it to work?

On my original build, I can't ever remember it working.

With my semi-clean install, it is there in the following path:
C:\Program Files\Realtek\Audio\HDA\RAVCpl64.exe

But it does not work, and has never worked.

If no-one has ever had this working for a E series, is it worth trying to get hold of it, maybe to improve volume output Etc., and if so, where can I get hold of it from?

Realtek's website there are HD codecs / drivers, but cannot see the HD Audio Manager anywhere?

 

If you have intel HM55 chipset, there is no point, it supports upto SATA II.
I have a crucial C300 128GB, which is SATA III, but of course it runs in SATA II due to the chipset.

You would see a significant difference with the Momentus XT, but you will see a massive difference with a SSD, also they are more robust, not prone so much to jolts and bumps, and of course use less voltage, so you would see slightly improved battery life if not running on AC.

With the Crucial C300, before install, my boot times were in region of 2:30 to 2:50 with Kaspersky KIS 2011 running, and shut down could take upto a minute and half. This is with a load of software and a normal Vaio build / install. After installing the C300, and doing a semi-clean install, my boot times went down to 21 seconds - again with a whole bunch of software I installed along with KIS 2011. And shut down time was just 12 seconds after installing the SSD.

Even now, after installing lots more software, bloating my registry, and setting up a dual boot with XP Pro 64bit, my boot time is still under 26 seconds. I see the desktop at 20 seconds, and KIS protection is enabled at 26 seconds.

Everything is snappier & faster, zip & rar's uncompress like they are on fire, applications open up at least twice as fast.

There are lots of tweaks and regedits that can be done with a SSD to improve the performance, I published some of them in this thread 6 months back.

 

I have a story to tell about my laptop.

Last thursday I spilt water all over it. Covered everything - and seeped through the keyboard into the insides. I thought it was surely doomed. This didn't help by the fact that in my panic to make sure it was functioning, after I had wiped it dry I immeaditately turned it on to see if it worked (which is the worst thing you can do, I know, but I wasn't thinking straight at the time). Sure enough, it refused to boot - not a single sign of life in the poor thing.

Luckily I was covered by my dad's content insurance (he exteneded it to cover me when I left for uni - best decision ever!). So to get my claim I took it to a repair shop to get them to check it over and confirm there was no hope of saving it. They gutted it, inspected the components and cleaned it all through. Today they rang up and told me it had started working again - sure enough it boots. And everything seems to be functioning normally - I've tested the screen, usb ports (and all other ports), all keyboard buttons, the touchpad, speakers, CD drive, HDD, memory (basically everything I can think of). And it all seems normal. They said there was some corrosion on the motherboard which they removed but it passed all their physical checks. Luckily it was just water and not some sugary drink that would have corroded the laptop even faster. Hopefully it'll be OK for the future and no lasting damage has been done *touch wood*.

So this surely shows that:

a) Miracles can happen
b) Sony VAIO's have incredible build quality and are real survivors
c) Liquids must never come within a 10m radius of the laptop ever again

This is typed on said VAIO. Love this little guy! Woop!

 

Not so sure VAIO's have incredible build quality, but some laptops have a kind of drainage system under the keyboard in case you spill any liquids onto it,
I'd say you were very lucky!

I rarely put drinks on the same desk as my laptop, & when drinking something near my laptop, I'm careful not to have it too near the keyboard, you never know what may happen...a sneeze, a car back firing making you jump Etc.

 

Hey guys..

I decided to change my RAM Memory to 8Gb, i'm using VPCEA36FG, does anybody know what RAM type which compatible for my laptop? and i also need price informations too

and, does anybody have manual book to de-assembly this laptop? yesterday i just gave my laptop to SONY VAIO Repair center to clog all dirts in my fan, and it costs $25 because my laptop guarantee time has expired.. of course if i give it to sony for every 3 month maybe, it cost a lot for me...

so if anybody already tried to de-assembly your laptop, you can share your experience here and also tutorial

 

This person dis-assembled a similar model:
Matt Norrie's Blog | Sony Vaio E Series

 

Crucial.com is the easiest way to find the type of RAM you need. You obviously only buy from there if they're the cheapest, though.

Disassembly is incredibly easy - I just did it myself for the second time to blow out all the dust from the heatsink. Remove all screws from the bottom (except RAM cover screw), remove hard drive cover and hard drive, then just pull off the bottom plate.

Use a can of compressed air to blow all the dust (blow air through the heatsink, then through the fan, repeat until no more dust comes out), and you're done. Re-assembly is just as easy.

 

I finally was pushed over the egde by the whiny fan in my EB yesterday and stripped the whole thing down, cleaned out the *tiny* amount of dust from the HeatSink and Fan, it really wasn't that dirty. But most importantly removed the HeatSink and removed the stock thermal compound and replaced with some very average (but new) Zalman stuff.

I've only ever used Arctic Silver before (not saying it;s the best just what I've used before) which is really easy to apply, the stuff I bought I thought would be similar in consistency, but this Zalman stuff is really thick like clay, not my favourite by a long shot but for just walking in the store and seeing what they had -can't complain!

Long story short is it's knocked 10°C of average internet/idle usage temps. So perfect result! from a sky high 55 and really noisy fan down to 45. So still a bit hot, but it's quiet and hot which is all I really care about!

When connected to my TV watching movies, all I could hear was the whine, really put me off the movies, hopefully this will keep it quieter for another 12 months. 2 year old EB at this point, perhaps the 4th time I've cleaned the fan, but first time to replace the stock grey paste which looked more like plastic at this point!

Don't forget to plug the fan back in either! I did and windows shut the laptop down for me before any damage was done, knew straight away what I'd done!

Have pictures if people need them, but very simple job.

 

Lets see that pictures!
Can you tell me the modell of that Zalman stuff?

 

I've got a cooler, so only usually hear the fan when playing a bluray iso or doing a full virus scan. So the thermal paste on the E series is not up to scratch? I heard the heatsink itself & the fan assembly was very good for a mid-range laptop.

 

This got lost amongst other posts so I don't think anyone caught this..hence reposting.

Has anyone ever ran the Realtek HD Audio Manager? And got it to work?

On my original build, I can't ever remember it working.

With my semi-clean install, it is there in the following path:
C:\Program Files\Realtek\Audio\HDA\RAVCpl64.exe

But it does not work, and has never worked.

If no-one has ever had this working for a E series, is it worth trying to get hold of it, maybe to improve volume output Etc., and if so, where can I get hold of it from? - As I'm sure you all know the speakers / wattage output is kinda weak for a entertainment laptop, my baby Lenovo s205 is louder.

Realtek's website there are HD codecs / drivers, but cannot see the HD Audio Manager anywhere?

 

Thanks for bringing this up again as I'd love to know about it too. I have the same problem with my SR series Vaio. I've read countless forum threads about it in the last few hours, with no solution. I tried to run just the sound from my laptop to my AV receiver, when I noticed the missing Realtek icon and that I only had the ATI HDMI in the sound control panel, and I always had to clone my screen to another video device in order to have sound. It works but I'd love to not being forced to tell my laptop there was some other video device plugged into the other end of the HDMI cable when I'm just playing music (it also means changing resolution sometimes which really bugs me...)

Anyways...

The best I could come up with was a thread where someone quoted the Vaio support, stating that since their notebooks come with a preinstalled OEM OS, no further settings can be made via the Realtek Audio Manager due to copyright reasons.

In my case, this can't be only the OS. My Vaio came with Vista 32bit Business (I think, or whatever it used to be called) preinstalled, and I installed Win 7 x64 Pro, so obviously not an upgrade of the OEM OS. Still, I can't make the Realtek Manager work. So if someone can shed some light on what exactly is keeping the manager from working, I'd be very grateful. I guess it has to be some of the numerous Vaio tools you have to install to make your laptop work (mode switch and other stuff). When I try to run the files, the behaviour is the same as jungleguru wrote. It really seems that something is effectively blocking the files from working. I'm not sure if it could be blocked by something in the BIOS already.

Ideas, anyone?

 

Damn, problems with the Vaio EB again, I just installed a 120GB OCZ Agility. System works great but I just noticed that my Panasonic Mata or something, only reads discs and cannot write any more. I remember that I uninstalled a bunch of Vaio stuff and updated some scsi, chipset and a whole bunch of other drivers but now the esata does not work and the optical drive wont burn disks

 

Bit late with the pictures, and they didn't come up as well as hoped but wasn't really the focus of the task, but here they are: Photo Album - Imgur

The stock thermal compound (ok it's nearly 2 years old) was as hard as plastic.
The zalman stuff I used wsa just cheap, I've only ever used ArcticSilver before which is easier to spread, but the results from the zalman stuff offer enough of an improvement for it to be worthwhile doing, in my case anyway, the laptop was getting loud all the time even idling on the desktop.
CPU and GPU cleaned with IPA and cotton buds, not a perfect job but 99%

Zalman stuff: ::: Zalman, leading the world of Quiet Computing Solutions :::

 

nice job, I need to do the same for my laptop, damn thing keeps revving like crazy all the time, last time i tried to do it, i couldnt make head or tail of which screws i needed to take off for the heatsink and fan so I thought maybe some other day when I'm not stoned....will give it a try...the focus is fine on the pics.

LATER THAT DAY,

Excellent, now my laptop is as quiet as a mouse. The fins on the exhaust fan were clogged with dust- used a toothbrush for that then squeezed a jet of water out of the tap (pressure wash) and made the fins sparkling clean. The old paste was like dry cracked paint on a wall. Scraped it off and tip- use lighter fluid like zippo lighter fluid to get a nice clean on the CPU and GPU heatsinks and a mirror like clean on the CPU and GPU themselves. Ooozed a little left over paste on the northbridge and GPU RAM- unnecessary, but hey a little extra dissipation dosent hurt. perfect.

 

Hi Guys,

Sorry if I'm posting this in the wrong thread or if this was answered before. I've searched this forum and didn't find any related answer to my problem. I've got a VPC EB1X5E. About a week ago it stopped working and when I took it to a local repair shop they said the motherboard is completely burnt out. Do you guys happen to know where I can buy a motherboard for my vaio in UK.

Any help appreciated,

cheers,
Amila

 

Might be good to shift the goo initially, but lighter fluid is oil, you don't want that on your cpu long term, clean it of with alcohol is better or 2nd best is nail polish remover

 

Did you find a way to enable AHCI in BIOS???

 

Hi Everybody,

I have a Sony Vaio VPCEB3S1E with the bios Aptio Version 1.28.1119 and Bios Version:R1090Y8. I have replaced my 500GB HDD with 120GB OCZ Agility SSD.

Edit the regedit values of Msahci from 3 to 0. Closed windows 7 64bit and go to the BIOS. But there is no possibility to change the ahci mode.

Restarted windows and waiting for blue screen but nothing changed no blue screen. On the device manager, serial ata controller is Intel 5 series AHCI controller, but the system doesnt work on ahci mode I am sure because I couldnt change the ahci mode in BIOS.

Also checked at devices and printers window I couldnt see my SDD to remove it.(hot-plugging) So it is not working in AHCI mode.

QUESTION:

1. Is it possible to update BIOS to a newer version to enable AHCI mode in BIOS?
2. Is it possible to enable AHCI without updating BIOS?

Thanks advance...


P.S. : The Ami official site transfers me to a paid site to update my bios. Since when updating firmware is non-free???

 

Latest BIOS (if any) should come with the Vaio Update.

Check if AHCI mode is enabled by doing the following:
Download and open AS SSD Benchmark program. You don't have to run the actual benchmark, just give me a screenshot of the first page. If AHCI mode is not enabled pciide will be being used.

 

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I know according to the AS SSD AHCI is enabled but as I said before I have enable it only at regedit, not in BIOS.

I run benchmark at Vaio and also at my desktop of the same SSD. My desktop run surely AHCI mode enable. And I am getting diffirent results.