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    Vaio SZ reassembly problem

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Avor, Dec 20, 2008.

  1. Avor

    Avor Notebook Enthusiast

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    Dear all,

    I've recently run into a problem of sorts, hope the community will help me get out of this. The story goes as follows:
    Fan noise of my SZ370P bugged me something awful. It was audible when in idle/net browsing and went to aircraft roar when loaded my video encoding or Adoble Lightroom photo rendering. CPU temp rose up to 92C which was a rather frigtening figure. So I've decided to disassemble the whole thing, which was a formidable endevaour. After like 3 hours of messin with it, cleaning the fan and stuff, and then assembling it back, it just refuses to launch. No power led blink, no fan sound, it won't even get so far as to POST check! So right now I'm stuck with a dead laptop, whereas i'm pretty sure components do work one by one, although I don't have a changce to test them in another PC.
    Any ideas where should I start checking? If anybody of you computer geeks had similar problems before, please give me some assistance.
    Thanks in advance.
     
    Avor, Dec 20, 2008
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  2. TabbedOut

    TabbedOut Notebook Evangelist

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    Take it apart and make sure that all of the internal cables are connected.
     
    TabbedOut, Dec 20, 2008
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  3. grisjuan

    grisjuan Notebook Evangelist

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    You could try following the steps in the disassembly manual in the thread here.

    The pictures aren't perfect, but I found it helpful when I replaced the fan in my sz110.
     
    grisjuan, Dec 20, 2008
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