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    ok noone but me thinks the sz is loud

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by neilk2350, Apr 8, 2006.

  1. neilk2350

    neilk2350 Notebook Evangelist

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    i've had a tr and about a million mac laptops and none of them are as loud as my sz 160. i've tried the fan thing and the s2 thing and it is still whining all the time. i cant hear myself scream
     
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    If that is the case then something is wrong with yours. The sz is normaly very quiet.
     
    Phil17, Apr 8, 2006
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    hm.. no problems here, but then again, i'm used to my desktop
    system whirring all the while. i was very surprised at how quiet
    my sz1xp/c is. i am using stamina mode though, perhaps that's
    more quiet than the speed mode. and i mainly use max battery
    mode, so perhaps the cpu fan isn't as loud as it would be with
    the system in performance mode.
     
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    Liar Notebook Guru NBR Reviewer

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    Have you tried manually setting the fan speed to level 1 in VAIO power management?
     
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    yup. i'm gonna try stamina
     
    neilk2350, Apr 8, 2006
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    stamina mode:

    turned it on. had a wiered series of crashed had to restart like 3 times then itunes kept not responding. then finally everything worked. this morning when i turned on my computer f'n outlook froze. i'm sure these things were not related but the bottom loud is i still have a bunch of fan noise.
     
    neilk2350, Apr 9, 2006
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    only sound I can here is the quiet fan in the background when I run it in Speed (nvidea) mode. The DVD drives beeps a tad, but nothing to stress me out.
     
    zii, Apr 9, 2006
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    i too have the sz series 120 though and mine is very quiet.. i came from a hp dv4340 though which was pretty loud.
     
    Crayzboost, Apr 9, 2006
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