... If the USB-serial thingies are that small, I'll look into trying one of those - I was envisaging something with a box of electronics on it. ... Bummer. ...
The Z505's sometimes have dark areas (as do many notebook displays) but yours sounds a lot worse. If it's an obvious gradient then perhaps your bulb is...
HI, I found a webpage that teach you how to change the HD for N505 However, it is written by Japanese. But you can still see the picture and step by step doing...
Thanks for your reply, Tom! Actually, it's not quite uniform horizontally neither - you can see that the central part is *a bit* more illuminated than the...
I am using a PCG-Z505JE and the battery scope shows charge of 100% with expected time as 1 hour 35 min... BUT in reality it lasts for only 5 minutes .. ...
well i dont seem to have a hibernate function at all. when i go into the power managemet it just has suspend and no hibernate. what i gots to do to get...
It's time for a new laptop! ... From: Antoni To: sony505@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 8:59 AM Subject: Re: [sony505] Display brightness...
Hmm. Anyone know where the backlight is on the Z05 panel, and especially whether there is one or two? This sure looks like a bad bulb, or something. Most...
Oh! I thought you were getting a hibernation failure. Well the answer then is, with Win98 there isn't an OS hibernate. On your older 505 you enable APM in the...
Your speakers are blown, replace them. ... From: chrismchung To: sony505@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2003 8:38 AM Subject: [sony505] R505...
Until Chris plugs an external pair of speakers into the headphone jack there is no way to tell for sure. This could just as easily be a blown amplifier chip,...
opps. sorry i should have been a little clearer. well accourding to everything that i have read on the subject this laptop when was factory had hibernation...
i have hibernation enabled in the bios along with susspend and all that goody stuff. i have it set to auto hibernate after a while in the cmos. ... cmos setup...
Very strange, because my 505 worked fine that way, and I put a larger drive in it, used phdisk on the new drive, and hibernate worked fine. By the way, I had...
I have just bought the V505bc2 laptop and am unhappy with its 40gb drive which is really less then that cause it up 5gb for recovery. Anyone does anyone know...
The Sony internal modem present in the early 505's is recognized by Win2k - did you let the install select this one? In fact, you can use the generic v.90/k56...
Chad, Thanks for the feedback I am using the original installation of Win98 (installed from Sys Recovery CDs) on the PCG-Z505JE.. Did not try any upgrades to...
(citations deleted to save bandwidth) I've recently switched to a 20G drive on my 505FX, and couldn't get hibernation to work either (it worked fine with the...
I added a 6 gig drive... The largest I could find in 8.5 mm... But then I changed over to win2k, so hibernation is done from the operating system, not the...
Well i have a idea. i will do a low level format on the computer ageen so that nothing will be on the 4 GB hard drive at all and then some one with a...
DING! DING! DING! DING! Correct answer. You absolutely MUST have the hibernation partition visible to the BIOS. If it's a large drive only the OS can see the...
My PCG R505 had its worst day in history today. After not turning it off last night, I awoke this morning to find it completely brain dead. No lights showed...
You might try the trick of removing the battery and the external supply and holding the power button in the on position for 2 and a half minutes. The ...
I just scored a new port replicator for under 10ukp on eBay. When it arrives, I'll have two, so the plan is to cannibalise the old one and turn it into a GPS...
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