good day! i'm new to this group.and i really need your help.i had here a pcg-z505sx unit but has no hdd.i was thinking of using an external hdd (via usb 2.0 to...
The newest bios are the Japanese bios, which do littl emore than allow youto get the memory stick port working in windows XP. I highly doubt your going to get...
I once had a link to a page with a description and pictures for a repair job for a 505 battery. I have lost it....does anyone have this link available? ...
... This may be the link you're thinking of: http://home.earthlink.net/~erikkunze/batpack/ The page also has links to relevant discussions in a Sony...
Hello forum members. I have a Z505HS that my wife bought used from ebay. It worked for a couple of weeks, then one day the machine said "operating system not ...
I'm not sure that the F9-Setup Defaults changes the HD type. Try changing the BIOS hard disk type to "None", by hitting "-" 4 times on the "Type" field. Then...
Tom, that was a good suggestion that I hadn't tried yet. Unfortunately, it didn't change anything. After reenabling the drive, the BIOS still detects it as...
Thanks for the suggestion but I do not think the models are the same. When I added a www to your url it worked but I could find nothing about dis-assembling...
Hello all ....I have a sony Z505 LS and now buying all the external drives that go with it ....I just got a purchase of a Model PCGA- DVD51/A DVD rom drive...
I have a N505VX working perfectly. But its CD-ROM drive PCGA-CD51 is broken. Does anyone know if some other CD-ROM drive can be used as the replacement of...
Hi, I just purchased a Sony PCG-505TX from Ebay. I get the following message as soon as I try to power up the laptop: Invalid system disk Replace the disk,...
Hiall, i have a sony PCG-Z505J and was wondering if a genuine CD-drive form sony is required to recover the original software installation of win98Se provided...
In a message dated 1/4/2004 4:33:02 PM Mountain Standard Time, ... I did it on a Z505R using a PCMCIA card CDROM and the Sony USB floppy drive, both attached...
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At this point, I'm stumped too. LBA addressing should always show the full size of the disk, even if the BIOS uses CHS and is therefore limited. The diags...
I have a Z505LS and am having a problem. I recently decided to reinstall the OS on my computer, and so I started a reinstall, from within windows. It worked...
Tom -- The other drive I tried, the 20 GB one, is a Fujitsu (model MHN2200AT). Like I said before, I didn't try a lot of experiments on it when I swapped it...
Certainly sounds like a PCMCIA problem. I assume you've flipped the "recovery" switch on the bottom of your DVD51A. The fact that it does it with a generic CD...
Or, see if you can reseat the cable on the motherboard (the connector isn't easy to deal with, as I'm sure you've noticed), or find a replacement. They're...
I Just upgraded, clean install, my Z505LS, to WinXP Pro. The machine originally came with WinME, that only lasted a month before I installed Win2KPro. I have...
Well, my dvd51a doesn't have a recovery switch on the bottom, but in the past i have booted the recovery CD off it. the problem now is that the drive...
Hi, I have just installed Windows XP on my laptop. I've tried adjusting the screen resolution to 600 X 800, but it's just a small display in the middle of the...
I'm trying to update the bios on my laptop and but I have a USB floppy. Is there any way to get the laptop to boot to the usb floppy? I've tried adjusting the...
On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 09:46:56 -0000, "redhkp1" <redhkp1@...> ... The USB floppy doesn't boot that model - it was made after the TX was discontinued. If...
Roll back your driver to the Sony-provided one. (You can do this in device manager->sound->Yamaha->driver). The generic sound drivers all have way too low a...
Hello I have bought a Sony VAIO PCG-52E3 a lot of parts of it are missed, i dont have de Hard Disk, the adapter of the Hard Disk to the mother board, I dont...
thanks for the advice. happy new year! jovani ... unsubscribe:<mailto:sony505-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> ... __________________________________ Do you...
Need mainboard driver for sony PCG-505EX for MS Windows ME already used windows driver but it did not work for infared port thanks in advance yibpongs...
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