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.

    Vaio Z keys jittering / typing double?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Alex.K.NY, Jan 14, 2009.

  1. Alex.K.NY

    Alex.K.NY Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    3
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    From the beginning, the A key on my Vaio VGN-Z590 keyboard has been typing aa instead of a. It sort of comes and goes - sometimes it's rare, sometimes almost always. I've had the same happen on o key just once or twice but no others. This never happened [just corrected aa here] to me on other keyboards [corrected again] incl Fujitsu and IBM laptops.

    Does anybody else have this happen?

    Is there a home fix? Should I have the laptop repaired? I want to clean-install an SSD and 64 Vista in a month or so but wanted to understand what I should do here first before I do anything impacting the warranty.

    Can I expect them to do anything real or just bump the HD, scratch the cover, create a dead pixel or two and do what I could [corrected oo] have done at home?

    Your opinion / insight is much appreciated.

    Alex
     
    Alex.K.NY, Jan 14, 2009
    #1
  2. |SONY|

    |SONY| Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    121
    Messages:
    330
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    this is a feature of the new Z. Gotta learn to live with it. This is one of the reasons I went with the TT. The SZ had too deep of the key travel, now the Z has double typing....
     
    |SONY|, Jan 14, 2009
    #2
  3. Rachel

    Rachel Busy Bee

    Reputations:
    1,369
    Messages:
    4,245
    Likes Received:
    5
    Trophy Points:
    106
    Alex.K.N.Y it seems like some people have been having this problem and it was discussed in this thread.
    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=306453

    In regards to your warranty it was brought up in this forum before you might want to check the below post out. Upgrading in some parts of the world might void your warranty but in the US it does not seem so clear.
    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=317567

    This is the warranty terms.
    http://www.docs.sony.com/release/VAIO_Warranty_2-586-738-02-USA.pdf
     
    Rachel, Jan 14, 2009
    #3