Well, my Sony PCG-SRX87 has a cracked LCD. I took it appart and its very straight forward to unscrew the LCD unplug the power and video hook up and install...
Just keep an eye on ebay and find out which parts are compatible with yours. There is a big chance that there will be other sony models with the same LCD. To...
Pity, because I actually had the part about a week ago but I sold it. Try to get a non working N505 series laptop of ebay and take the screen. Im told is the...
Has anyone seen any info on these new Centrino based V505's? The DC is based on the P-M 1.4 and the DC on the P-M 1.6. I was curious about the graphics...
Wow - it has DDR333 ram. And 4+ hours battery life. Seems to have a Mobility Radeon 9200/32MB (Japan model anyway). They should have waited and shipped this...
Hi Tom, I'm not certain that they are the same models. I hope they have the 9200 graphics as any improvement is better than the old Mobility 16MB. Too bad...
All the Japan models have the same 9200, so I wager the US models all will too. Who knows why they cripple the Z1. I still find the V505 too thick and too...
... I'll never understand Sony's choice of the 1.8" hard drive in the TR. They finally got the 40GB model for the TR2, but even if Toshiba takes it to 60GB,...
hey, i just did a low-level format and reinstalled XP Pro (the corporate version) onto my PCG-R505gl. Everything seems to be working ok, but I can't find the...
Anyone know if this procedure is same for V505AX (have not opened case yet) ? or whether V505AX already has mini PCI (should be so lucky, eh ?) ? Thanks very...
My Z505LE requires a new logic board, please let me know if you have a Z505 computer that might still have such a part and be useful to me. Thankyou. -Daryl...
vaio pcg-r505dl - missing operating system error I get the following error message when I turn on my laptop: "missing operating system". When I run the system...
Hi, My system recovery CDs fail to install when I get to disk2. Left with an unusable system (PCG-R505DL), I would like to beg someone for an image of a...
vaio pcg-r505dl - missing operating system error I get this error message when I turn up my laptop. Then when I try to reload the operating system using the...
My battery for my 505 won't let me power on with it. but when in widows it says its 100% charged, it does this with another battery to which i know works any...
The powerbrick cable wore, then shorted (spark). Now the computer will crash about once a day with an unknown hardware error. Sometimes I can reboot and lose...
Open the box and see if your mini PCI connector is in place If not there is 128pin connector soldering involved ... You need steel nerves to do that :) ... on ...
Once again I need help ... I'm trying to create floppy boot disk to be able to boot from my firewire/USB external DVDRW drive. I'm using Ghost boot disk and I...
On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 16:14:31 -0000, "robmerkle1981" ... The Fn keys are controlled by a program called HotKey Server. There should be an XP version on the Sony...
You can extract all drivers and utilities from your recovery CD The installation order is also very important, search in this forum ... ... Also, ... Server....
just a quick question. i know none of the 505 notebooks incorperate centrino,but i have a question about it. does anyone know if any form of centrino has...
1) The upcoming V505 model uses a Banias processor. 2) The Centrino brand implies Banias processor, Intel chipset and Intel wireless, together. At present...