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    Vaio Pcg 7m1m

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by ColUK123, Sep 4, 2008.

  1. ColUK123

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    I have a VAIO PCG 7M1M and I am having a few problems with it, I have done a search of the forum but I am unable to find if this has been covered before.

    The machine is about 18 months old, running on XP and around 4 months ago I had to have two new ram sticks installed. This seemed to stop the issues I was having then, locking up – crashing – screen going blank etc. But now the sound has developed a fault.

    I leant my laptop to a friend for a few days and when it came back the sound was all crackly and it also dragging. At first I thought she had somehow blown the speakers but attaching external speakers and headphones produced the same problem. When I burn a CD the terrible quality is also on the CD when played on an external player.

    I have gone through all the help topics on the machine, scanned for viruses, done system checks but still the problem persists. In addition to this problem the machine can sometimes take up to 15 minutes to boot up and can just run really slow even when I just have one application running, i.e. Word, this can mean when I type the letters catch up with my typing about 10 seconds later.

    There is plenty of memory on both drives and the machine says these do not need to be defragmented.

    Can anyone offer any solutions before I pay a ridiculous amount for getting it looked at professionally? I am certainly no expert but I think the sound card is shot and/ or the main board.

    Any help very much appreciated.

    Col
     
    ColUK123, Sep 4, 2008
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