The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    PCG-K415B - Some advice and guidance please

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by jj_uk, Sep 3, 2007.

  1. jj_uk

    jj_uk Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    1
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Hi There,

    I'm new to the forums, so please be gentle!

    I managed to get this laptop from my sisters boyfriend and it has a number of issues with it. Firstly it was incredibly slow, but i reinstalled windows on it and it seems to be ok now. I'll need to buy a new battery because it lasts for about 20 minutes =/ A major issue is the noise, i wouldn't be able to take it to lectures at uni without people thinking there is a vacuum cleaner on in the room. The fans go on fully when its idle on the desktop for more than 5 minutes.

    I'm just wondering if there is a guide to open the laptop? And presumably i open it from the keyboard to clean it? I've got experience with desktops, but not with laptops.

    I'm planning on buying a new battery for it, and replacing the celeron with a p4 m will improve battery life and it should hopefully be cooler right?

    Another question, it has 2 x 256mb of ram in it atm, can i remove one stick and replace it with 512, or shall i jsut replace both with 2 x 512? (dual channel won't work? etc.)

    Thanks a lot

    :)
     
    jj_uk, Sep 3, 2007
    #1