Sony Vaio CB Official Owners' Thread

@manoja

I never experience it, atleast in microsoft office / programs that I use... is it always happen? What kind of programs that you experience the keyboard lagging?

No, sony don't have any keyboard setting like sensivity or something like that...

Try using usb keyboard or wireless, and type. If the same problem occurs, then it is software thing, and nothing wrong on the hardware side

 

I am talking about the Keyboard settings in Windows 7 .

...............also, got to try this with a USB keyboard . Would comment, after that .

 

I mean the Sticky,Toggle & the Filter keys adjustment & adjustment of Repeat delay & rate .

 

have you tried it with usb keyboard?

 

could any1 tell me i can update my bios or not...i got older bios in my vaio n there is no problem to me wid that...battery seems to be my only problem regarding bios....battery life is not so gud....i hav read that it can be increased to 5 hr approx in power saving mode by bios uodate...

 

I have not tried a USB keyboard yet, but i have been able to solve the typing lag problem ( 99 % of it ) by playing with the Keyboard adjustments .

 

i see... good then...

@anugrag9027

hmm, if you have old bios i think you have problem with openGL program maybe you just not realise it... yes battery life is increase significantly using the the patch cos you can manually turn off the amd when on battery

 

I get 5.5 hrs with backlight set to lowest setting when using the intel card on the new bios.

Install it, it will definitely improve your battery life when set to intel GPU.

 

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I'll be wait for your command on there Thanks

 

i just installed the bios....and then i'm install vaio control center,battery checker,vaio event service, and vaio power management.
but i have a problem,the auto brightness it does't work.
can you help me solve this problem?

 

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Thanks for your comment on there

 

Can anybody detail the clean installation process for VPCCB17FG ? I have updated my Bios .

After installing the OS, do the loading of the Drivers have to be in a particular sequence ? Have all the Drivers & the patches need to be loaded or r some to be skipped ( http://www.sony.co.in/support/product/vpccb17fg )? Also, does one need to reboot, after each Driver is loaded ?

Any other caution to be observed ? What applications & utilities r being normally loaded & which one's r being given a skip ?

 

Anybody ?????

 

Also can somebody provide a legal link to download Windows Home Premium ( 64 bits ), so that i can use my Product ID to do a fresh installation .

 

http://msft.digitalrivercontent.net/win/X17-24209.iso

 

Thanks, accel .

 

Come on guys, no body knows the answer here or what ????

 

I usually start with chipset driver,then video driver,then audio...I dont think there is an order to do this thing...

@accel....
Its an ressumable download link....thanks...Just one question...can i access my recovery partition after installing the above windows..[i am not going to format entire hdd]..i still want it..because i can install windows and drivers with a few clicks...thats why...any idea?...also, is it service pack one?

thanks
bipin

 

yes you can still acess the hidden partition... and it is with sp1 included

 

hey guys, I have extensively searched the net for answers but to no avail. I know you guys are the best.

I installed a 32 bit windows 7 to my new CB because there are some programs I can't run on 64. But now I have some problems with the graphics card, it says I have the standard VGA graphics adapter.

I have downloaded the amd catalyst for the 32 version but it's not solving anything. Windows can't turn on aero mode and itunes won't display artwork.

anyone has any idea how to get the most of the AMD HD 6330 on win 7 32-bit?

or do I have to use my recover discs?


thanks in advance

 

@bernhl

Sorry but, sony didn't provide the x86 driver

 

It performs great.

 

Hi!

Someone asked earlier in this forum about battery over 6 hours. With new bios, backlit keyborad always on, wirelless on and screen brightness set to automatic mine is 6h 23 min now. In idle mode it would reach about 8 hours or so but no point in that...
And system uptime is only 5 seconds!

So it is not bad at all...

Good luck,
Alex

 

Thats insane! I have the new bios and my system has the 2450m ( which im assuming should only cut off a very small bit of battery) and with backlit keyboard on auto and screen brightness to lowest setting with intel gpu mode i only manage to get 5 hrs and 30 min max. Wifi is on and not even using ut for much sound or video playback. Im also using the standard capacity 5300Mah battery, not the larger one.

What do you think the problem is? I dont have an ssd just regular 500gb 7200 rpm hdd. I could try screen brightness on auto but i dont think that wouls help because i already got the backlight set manually at the lowest brightness setting...

 

wow... the reason why I didn't get the CB (I like Dynamic Switchable over manual switching - just a bad habit I picked up from Optimus ), was because some reviews were bashing the battery life at some 3 hours

 

Probably because they reviewed it before the new bios which allows for manual switching of the GPU.

Before the new bios i only got about 4 hours battery life.

 

what is the system uptime and how do u find it ! thanks

 

have anyone tried redhat linux 5 on ur laptop?..i installed it, but i cant get network,display and audio drivers...can anybody help?

thanks
bipin

 

I tried to do clean install . Windows loaded well . There were no issues . As soon, as i started loading the utilities, i started getting a message that " the Battery is not compatible or loose & press OK to let the computer Hibernate " or something similar . I tried to restart, but this message repeated again & again & finally i had to revert back using the Recovery Partition .

Please note that i have an updated Bios ( for switchable graphics ) .

Can somebody tell me, what went wrong & also let me know the step by step method for a clean install .

All help would be appreciated .

 

hmm, it's not wrong just your utilities is not for this laptop if i'm not mistaken... that error is battery care program error.

 

I think i just realized my mistake . I was trying to load the original utilities of VPCCB 17FG model, instead of the using the Vaio shared Library & utilities detailed by Aleksandras for VPCCB290X .


Correct me, if i am wrong .

 

yes, try using the CCB290x ones

 

R u guys able to adjust the brightness, after using the CCB290x utilities ? With back light set to auto, i think it is not possible to adjust the brightness of the screen through the "adjust screen brightness" function ( the one, which u get after clicking on the Battery icon ) .

...............also, with the utilities of CCB290x, u get the function of Back lit in VCC, but it does not seem to work .

 

i'm able to adjust brightness... with CCB290X utilities and it's much more perfect than the older ones... it's wierd but yes, i can adjust brightness of screen through Fn + f5 /f6 although i set it in auto

backlight function works flawlessly

 

I own a Viao CB with the 15.6" 1080P screen that I recently cracked by accident. I ordered a new one from laptopscreen.com. The model number of the screen in my laptop is LP156WF1(TL)(C1). I just got the screen in the mail today and saw that it was (TL)(E2) not (TL)(C1) so I called the company and the guy told me that this is the exact same screen but that it was just the new make of the screen and assured me that it would work. I plugged the new screen in and screwed it back together, but when I turned it back on......nothing, just blank. Is there anything else I need to do? Thanks!

 

while i play 1080p videos,i see noise in my videos,like the sharpness is too high...i used vlc,km player, arcsoft total media theatre...all show same results..this occur in all videos...Do u have this problem?

i adjusted settings in intel display settings...no effect...i cannot see any change when i adjust CCC...

 

^^ Works fine for me. But HD videos stutter on VLC. Try MPC - Home Cinema.

 

Has anyone managed to install the AMD Catalyst Display Driver 11.9
or another version newer than the default,

I ask because in the current Catalyst Control Center (under 'Standard View')
Desktops and Displays > Advanced Display Settings

there is only one option:
('Display Detection Option')


There are no GPU scaling options which are present in many example screenshots on the net,

you can see lots & lots of useful options in GPU-68: Unable to set GPU Scaling option in ATI Catalyst? Control Center
unfortunately my CCC doesn't look like that or have all those lovely options(!!)

I need such a basic option because in Battlefield 3 beta when I select a resolution lower than 1920x1080 (this screen's native resolution) it will have black border on all 4 sides ('underscan' I've found it to be called),
(happens even on HDMI connection to HDTV..)

I thank anyone who can inform me if a version we can install on our VAIOs will give me that option of GPU scaling


mine says 'Version 2011.0106.1235.22490' (seemingly totally no relation to these '11.something' CCC..

thankyou,

 

Hi, does N1 have issues with Hibernation? Sometimes my VPCCB 17fx dont hibernate on my command, he just turn the screen off but still on, and there`s nothing I can do, just press power off for 5 sec !!

 

i don't have any issue... might be issues of windows itself...

my suggestion repair or clean install

 

does anyone ever downgrade windows to XP?

 

^^ That would be difficult. There are no 32-bit or 64-bit XP drivers supplied by Sony.

 

If you would like to enable two-finger scrolling & such other gestures supported by Synaptics Touchpad, then uninstall the craappy Touchpad drivers that Sony has provided & download the OEM drivers off the Synaptics site.

Drivers | Synaptics

 

Hi all,

I remember previously asking about the difference between i5 and i7 and i got mixed response. But most suggested similar speed. Now, I am confused between two i5 and I really appreciate your help please.

Does anyone know if there a big difference between:

i5 2410M and with i5 2430M ? do you advice to go for the newer one. It is about ~£50 extra.

Thank you in advance.

 

Very little difference, not worth the cost.

 

Could you please upload the file again ? This link doesn't seem to be working.
Thank you for the awesome work!!

 

link works...

 

yup. While the i7 had some potential if you really needed it, the two i5 CPU... almost no difference. Certainly not a 50quid difference.

 

Could anybody provide the link to the new bios with manual gpu switch?
I have Vaio cb190x with i5 2410m and radeon 6630, could new bios cause any compatibility issues?

edit: sorry - page loaded about an hour ago and not represhed
@ shubham_2206 thank you

 

Gives me this:




EDIT: Working now, sorry for the big image!