Sony Vaio CB Official Owners' Thread

I think TRIXX is not very reliable for looking that info. Last week I tried different drivers and it always showed 11.11 :S In dxdiag, 11.11 shows up as version 8.911.0.0.

I downloaded mine from AMD Catalyst 11.11 WHQL (8.911.0 October 25) - Download & Discussion - Guru3D.com Forums In my case, the official ones never pass the GPU model check.

 

In the release notes, they wrote this:

The following notebooks are not compatible with this release:

Any notebook launched after this driver release
Switchable Graphics enabled notebooks
Toshiba® notebooks (please contact the notebook OEM for driver support for these notebooks)
Sony® VAIO® notebooks (please contact the notebook OEM for driver support for these notebooks)
Panasonic® notebooks (please contact the notebook OEM for driver support for these notebooks)

So I guess thats why it never passes GPU model check.

I am downloading from the link you gave, hope this works!
Thanks!!!

 

guys does c3 bios improves the sound performance of this unit? My vaio has weak audio. When I put the sound at level 50 I can barely hear a sound from it. Damn I thought this sony laptop has nice sound because its 15 inches, my old HP Pavilion dv5 with altec lansing can still kick when it comes to sounds.

 

for me using the dolby home theater utility with c3 bios really did improve the audio a lot

 

Well... after a fresh install, I still don't have switchable GPUs :/ Do you guys install _everything_ on Sony's website after a fresh Windows install? I just left unninstalled the AMD Registry patch since it doesn't specify what does. Could this be the problem?

EDIT: Also, I can't get the LAN driver to install ok. I tried the Atheros drivers from C1 and C3 series, and also the ones directly from Atheros, without luck :/

 

while playing games temp is reaching 88-90.....
is it normal?? also it makes noise.....

 

I'm playing Mafia 2 and MW3 these days. Temp remains around 65-70, but not more than that. I put the fan on high performance mode.
Fan noise is noticeable on high performance mode, whereas on silent or balanced it is fine.

 

i'll try playing today with high performance mode and record the temps...
BTW games i play most are Skyrim, BFBC2 MP

 

Well, laptop temp are not very accurate, it depends more to your room temp

 

@reddead
wow youre temp is higher than mine. I play witcher 2 with overclock settings CPU ID record never gave me 88-90 temp. Both CPu and GPU is ranging from 70-80. I set the fan on high performance. My Bios is the first hacked bios, my catalyst 11.10 and my driver is 8.901.

by the way my laptop is 1 inch above from surface i'm using notebook cooler to elevate but i never turn it on.

 

^^
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its winter here....
and i used HWmonitor to record temp...
it was ok before....but now when i heard more than usual noise ....i started checking temps....

 

No difference on High performance

 

have you tried cleaning the fan? seems like the dust is piling up

 

^never done this before...

 

does it make any considerable difference when you are using the cooler, i mean when its turned on ?

 

nope... but it depends on the airflow of the laptop...

it should be 2 - 8 degree.

 

to clean the fan do i have to open up the laptop??

 

yes ofcourse you have...

it's seasy though you just have to open 16 - 18 screws if i'm not mistaken.

 

everythings fine now...temp doesnt excede 79-80...
average 72
i didnt do anything, just blowed some air into vents

 

Have somebody noticed a clicking sound coming from the speakers after the last sound driver update with the CB (first model), this is noticeable with the clicking sound effect when you open a folder, I know this sound is a clicking effect but with that sound sometimes I can notice a clicking sound that is not normal and I don't know if this issue was caused by the driver update...

 

someone already posted it here at previous page. uninstall the new one and use the old one.

 

Thank you pal! That solved my problem...

 

Hi , i want some information about the laptop as many of you have got it ..

is there any heating issue when using on lap

and what is the exact battery life of the laptop. ?

 

No heating issues when using on lap.
Battery around 5 hours when on low power gpu (need manual switching through bios update). But some people said they get around 3.5 hours. This just depends on usage.

 

Hi all, I'm newbie here from Thailand.


Just got my CB37 and have problem with wireless-n setting.
It shown radio type is 802.11n but stuck at 54kbps.

After searching, I found that I have to enable 802.11n, which should be in advance tab of wireless adapter property. But it's not there.

My wireless adapter is Arthos AR9485WB-EG with 9.2.0.427 driver version.

Any suggestion please ? Thanks in advance.

 

What is that led looking thing next to numlock?

 

Ambient light sensor for adjusting brightness automatically & to turn off keypad lights in daylight.

 

anyone in here have problem when want to increases the gpu voltage when we are using sapphire trixx? why my gpu voltage always reset to default clock even i've update into latest driver from sony or reset driver into factory setting? btw, i've reformat my computer before. could be this is the source problem why i can't edit my gpu vltage with sapphire trixx? there is no problem with my gpu voltage until i reformat my vaio. anyone can help me? thx

 

Guyz it seems that Bios update has been launched out worldwide, because it appears on Vaio update. Unfortunately I can't upgrade. I wish I can downgrade to old one so that I can Install the new one. I dont have any regrets on installing the mod but I just hope that there's an option to install the new one..

 

i downgraded mine to the old one provided by alex. and installed the official bios from sony extracted by alex.
thanks alex

 

Hello,

I bought a VPCCB3C5E, I thought to put a Mac OSX on it, and why I need the AHCI mode ...
For information, I called Sony Customer Service and they confirmed that it was not possible with this series ...
I can not change the way the hard drive on the Sony VAIO BIOS is very poor in terms of the option.
That's why I thought to use a modified BIOS.

I'm really disappointed, anyone have a solution?

Thanks to you

 

dude where did you get the new one? is this the new one EP0000260472.rar? from previous page?

 

Oh thanks... duh. Should have guessed that. It just looks so much like an LED I never thought it was a sensor! Lol

 

I have the bios update from Alex and it doesnt allow me to update to the official update from Sony since i already used his mod.

I dont understand how you got back the old one and then upgraded to the Sony bios update?

Id like to do the same thing here.

 

anyone in here can help me please...

 

ok, i got the CB3 version of bios from alex, (the one with the audio enhancement), i installed it. sadly i encountered some click sounds randomly and i dont like it, and the vaio update keeps on informing me to install the official bios.
since the official bios will not work anymore. i asked accel to extract the official bios and send it to me. that's how i got the official bios for CB1.

issues are gone.. no more notification from vaio update..

everything is ok now on my CB1

accel has the extracted official bios

thanks accel!!!

 

here it is

EP0000260472.rar

CB1 bios, i use Asian installer as the US installers has some difficulties in extracting..

 

is there a way to do a fresh install without losing the recovery partition? If the answer is positive, could I use that partition after doing fresh install to recover useful drivers and software like Office 2010 starter, ATI drivers, etc?

 

my bios version is ro242v2 and i don't get any notification regarding any bios updAte
is EP0000260472.rar also for cb15 models??

 

Yes, i noticed on my CB that the recovery partition has no drive letter.

and when you do a fresh install, you can recover/access your drivers and bundled software by installing the VAIO Care from sony

i hope that helps.

 

AHCI is already enabled. You don't need to make any changes to the BIOS settings. Just go ahead & install OSX using TonyMac's guide.Lion works perfectly on this laptop.

Firstly hackintoshing is not a joke. So if you're serious enough head over here: tonymacx86 Forum • View topic - Sony VAIO VPCCB15FG (CB15) series Hackintosh progress

 

Thanks pal!

 

duh, ofcourse, the new bios update is r0242, that means you're already have the newest bios update

 

hi eveyone i have question
i bought vpc cb 17fx series vaio few months ago. its i5 but its slow. i thought that reason might be the unnecessary programs. you know lots of vaio's programs. i want to delete that unnecessaries (like norton, evernote, powerdvd, content ?) but dont know which one. can anyone help me ?

 

@pauldmps : Thanks for your reply. I'm relieved about the AHCI mode !

I try to install iATKOS L2 Lion 10.7.2 version, but when the DVD boot, i've this message, and I don't know why (no more information).

Code:

error parsing plist file

If anyone has information, thanks !

 

I can't instal the newest bios update for my Vaio CB190X. I installed CB290X's r1101v2 when it wasn't available for my Vaio and now the bios installer won't allow me to instal the proper bios for my notebook. Any ideas how to instal it or avoid bios check?

 

use the bios extracted by accel.. it will work.

 

It is better to use Tonymac's method. The error relates to your install DVD & not the system.

 

Thanks a lot, and of course thank you, Accel, too!

 

glad to be of use