Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
just a small update about my Z11-SSD-problem (after a blackscreen one ssd jumped out of the quad-raid, bam, data gone... happened twice in 3 months!)
sony (europe) picked the z11 up at october 6th via ups. the guy from service call center told me it'll take from 5 up to 10 days. all good so far (but a long time without my vaio... grrr). at october 18th i got little worried, because i got no text message, no email, nothing, so i called them again. the woman said that the vaio entered service at october 12th (wow, 6 days from germany to belgium) and that there's some delay right now in processing, so it may take some more days to repair / exchange the ssds.
about the problem that i didn't get any email at all she said it might be a problem with the "system" and she's gonna look for that. well, as of today, october 25th, i didn't get any email, any text message, about my vaio being repaired, shipped back, or anything else.
it's nice to pay 2500€ to be almost one month "out of laptop".... isn't it?
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First Time Post!
I have read this forum and the Vaio parts in particular for a week and still do not understand the "owners lounge" thingy and why threads has to be so HUGE!
Anyway here's my issues (please correct/rebutt me if I'm out of line):
1. Does anyone know of any software/utility with witch you can read the fan speed (throttle) of the VPCZ1? Even better, control it? When I had a mischievous SZ61 I succeeded at making NHC (old .net hardware util) both read and control the fan, it entailed a lot of trial and error though.
The reason I'm asking is that "thermal control strategy" switching does not seem to do anything with the sound/speed of the fan on this one. That might be because it is mostly at its lowest speed since the laptop is a monster
But my Z21 (not VPC, you know, the previous Z-line) expressed a lot of difference when switching.
1.5. Do your Z1's ever shut down the fan completely? The Z21 did and I would have hoped/thought that the Z1 (having SSD) would too, but it never does. Assuming of course low utilization and custom power options.
2. Someone asked about the AC Adaptor being the same as for earlier models, since the threading practices of these forums goes beyond my scope I'll just humbly say that My SZ4?, SZ61, Z21 and Z12 all have exactly the same 19.5V adaptor though the one that came with the SZ4 was bigger (they were back then).
3. I am experiencing freezes and strange problems with hybrid graphics switching especially when coming back from sleep and especially when changing something significant *during* sleep (like plugging in/out the AC or the HDMI). I have seen/read others expressing similar woes and concerns. What I can add is that all my vaios with hybrid graphics had similar problems! After a couple of months when refreshes came out and my models drivers where updated these problems usually went away. What is decisively much nicer with the Z1 and SSD is that when freezes happen and/or the event services stops working (like auto brightness stops working or it's impossible to change brightness) restarting windows is soooo fast on this one (not that you ever should have to).
What I mean to say is that if you are just an a-type personality and not an aaa-type you might as well live with these things and in my experience updated (sony official) drivers, bios updates and such will fix the problems.
So... thats what I have to say and ask.
Lets, all us lucky owners keep *enjoying* this fantastic machine! And once in a while laugh at all those proud mac-evangelists out there
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Computer locks up when waking up from the sleep
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Hi guys..
Sorry for my silly question..can my Z play games like Call of Duty, Far Cry and Crysis?
I go to this website:
Can You Run It?
and it said that my video card is not support. As i know, GeForce GT330M is one of the latest of graphic. Or I can play games with medium settings?Attached Files:
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Bought the Z11 in directly may when it came out, so one of the first models...
Not sure about the SSD though. But good news today, called the Sony Service again, now they even gave me a repair number and wanted to conncet me to the service center so i could talk to them to see what's going on with my vaio, but then the call was dropped with something like "due to unforseen circumstances... bla bla" *beeeeep* - well, that worked great. afterwards i used the contact form on the website and told them how the support... sorry... 'sucks', and after just 20 minutes i got an email back that my sony left the repair center yesterday and should arrive within two or three days from Belgium.
Let's see if they located & fixed the problem... i'll keep you updated in case anyone else has this problem ever again.
by the way: i make backup images every few days and always store the important data on my pc, on my external 16TB NAS and on different mobile HDs, but once in a while you are on a job on a location where there's no time to backup data, and if it happens especially THEN (which it did in my case, twice!!) it's really hard to blame the backup process
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what is protective material? i aint putting a condom on my z
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I believe that the comparison is a bit biased towards the MB Air. I'm sure that the 15'' outcome of the MBA cannot be beat, but the 40'' for the Z is unfair, since this doesn't refer to fresh clean installs, the bios raid screen is on (which consumes a few more sec's) and I'm sure there will be a few more twicks to apply to make the Z's boot faster. A well tuned Z can boot in about 30'', I would say.
As the first comment on the page says I'm sure that the 15'' difference will make the MB users so much more productive!
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First off, thanks for taking the time to reply to my post.
When working in normal environments I too can barely hear it. When using it to read stuff late in the night and the fan goes in a low throttle theres a buzzing from it. That's why I wanted to know the speed to perhaps be able to decide if this is "normal". Anyway, the fan is very quiet and especially the high-revelation sound isn't IMHO annoying at all.
Happened once today. The computer was in speed mode and i put it to sleep. Then waking it up on battery and it failed to switch and froze instead (or perhaps it was the other way around). A freeze (I have seen someone else here "report it") in this case the screen shows what was on and the mouse pointer is still. Everything is completely unresponsive. A cold-boot is the only way out. But I suspect that will be better with newer drivers. It is an Z12Z9E so it has the FHD screen, 8MB an European Samsung SSD (4*64MB), Goobi card and an optical unit. No GPS. I'll try the Z13 drivers as you suggest (I held that back because someone reported a higher GPU tempature when using those drivers on the Z12).I uninstalled all bloatware first thing so my "VAIO"-button also goes to mute but thats moot since Fn+F2 is mute already . Anyway, perhaps I'll try to hack it when getting inspired some day!
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I saw that but didn't think enough of it If say I boot DOS 3.3 on my Z, and it loads in 5 seconds, do I say it's better than the MBA? What am I really comparing? Do I care about the kinds of applications running and how long they take to run? I think the reviewer's just being silly...
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Think Zagg Invisishield, Clear protector, the stuff you put on your cellphone. There's a few threads on it. I think Willy said he went to a car autoshop and they measured and cut out some 3M car protector material for him for like $10 or so. Zoinks bought some 3M protector too and cut it out himself. It's up to you, but it stand to show that "where there's a will, there's a way"
You've got a VPCZ12, so the "latest" official video drivers are actually on the VPCZ1390X series support site. Go to Sony eSupport and type that in for your model and look for the drivers then update them. OR, you can follow the new graphics driver thread in the Sony forum and test out the newest drivers that the community has put together.
The Gobi card is a global GSM/CDMA card WITH a GPS... you can unlock it by downloading the drivers from the european site... the american drivers lock it to Verizon.
There's no preconfig model in the US with those specs... but from the CTO... i get $2800 for that configuration (w/ a silver lid, carbon fiber is $50 more)... also consider the tax rate. -
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if you have 4gb RAM yes. My Disk Transfer rate used to be 7.9 but has since fell to 7.6 (maybe it's cuz now i've got about half my drive filled, versus stock capacity or maybe Windows changed the WEI test), but it's fine, WEI is sort of a guideline, gives you a ballpark figure.
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Does anyone use search? maybe that's part of the reason this thread is so huge
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How about Skype.
Nothing to activate there, just tell the program to use it.
and if you go to Tools | Options | Video Settings
you will see yourself.
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I personally have a caddy with a 640GB hard drive in my Z and store all downloaded/personal/work files on it. When I'm ready, I copy those files to a 1.5TB drive in an external enclosure manually. Doing it this way allows me to restore easily and still have access to the files in my caddy. I don't run many programs other than the ones that came with the Z. If you do, this may or may not work out better for you since you will have to reinstall those programs as well, in which case a one touch backup solution would be more beneficial. I personally don't use any type of back up programs since i like to see my files that are backed up, but i do think such programs can be useful and save you a lot of time. I'm not sure if using such programs will allow you to easily restore your system to a good state in the event a virus or a corrupt system file gets backed up accidentally into the archive. But I would think as long as your backing up all should be well
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Sony Vaio Z i5/i7 (VPCZ1) Official Owners Thread Part 2
Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony Owners' Lounge Forum' started by Digitalfiend, Aug 23, 2010.
