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Apparently the BIOS got corrupted. In some cases you have to use some reasonable force to separate the heat sink from the CPU but be very careful.

I cannot give you a good advice without looking at the laptop myself. Carefully separate the CPU and install it back into the socket. Did you remove the memory modules while cleaning the laptop?

Make memory modules are installed correctly. I asked a computer Tech today and he told me it might be the power ribbon flat cable between the power button and mainboard which could be broken.

I had to get a new cpu, because somehow, I accidentally broke off one of the pins on my cpu when I got distracted. My minor question is: Does that mean that I need to put that grease on it? There is still a bit of it attached to the fan. My major question is: How do I turn my computer on again? I reseated the new CPU several times. Everytime I try to turn my computer on again, it makes a very nasty sound near the dvd-rom and hard drive.

This noise lasts for about seconds. The fans turn on perfectly for that time and then slowly turn off. The power light turns on and then turns off in that time. I replaced the fan using the instructions on this page.

Stripped it and found the slot, installed the card and antenna. Now windows tells me that the hardware switch is in the off position.

I cant for the life of me find??? Can someone tell me where this is? Could it be the jumpers next to the slot? Please help! I remember reading about the solution for that but cannot find where. Try searching this direction. Hello Thanks for this great guide. I have a question: Did you try to change cpu with another more powerful but of the same specification?

I have a pcg-kb and I have already done the easy job: New hdd and more ram. I want now to change the celeron 2. What do you think? Will be accepted from the mobo this changement? Thanks a lot for your answer. Instead of unsoldering the wire to the jack…I just ripped it out of the old jack. I guess I can still unsolder the guts of the old power jack and then solder the wire back on to the new one?

What does the wire look like unconnected to the power jack? Already replaced the harddrive. Got a weird problem with a PCG-K It will charge the battery up and the laptop will work for about 20 to 25 minutes roughly on battery and will not shut off.

However when i try to run on AC, The laptop will turn on and run but will randomly shut off. All the drivers seemed to load up fine. Any thoughts would be sincerly appreciated. I want to clean the fans. I developt a 3 bolts,but a fans was not put out. They had had some trick for put out a fans?

Would really appreciate some guidance before I attempt to dissemble my laptop to repair the power jack. I have replaced the dc jack with a replacement and followed the instructions above to disassemble the laptop.

When I did and put the laptop back together there is no video. I have retraced my steps twice over but still do not know what is wrong. Thanks for any help. The one I have here is dead. I need to get a new system board for this dead. Try cleaning the recovery disc. Run diagnostic test on the hard drive. Maybe the hard drive is going bad. Test the hard drive.

Does anybody have a suggestion for what would be compatible with this computer? I want to go as big as possible without changing anything else. Thanks for the photos and step by step guide. I had to replace the power jack socket as the original broke. Thanks to this i got the job done in 30 mins and worked 1st time.

I used a straight edge blade type you shave with and positioned it between sink and cpu plate and gently taped it with handle of screw driver.

Came apart with no problems. And thanks for all your info and veiws to help me work on my Sony. Do you know which lug the red and black wire goes on. My computer display does not stay lit. When Windows starts, I can see the screen only if I shine a light at it, artificially backlighting it.

I downloaded a driver from a Sony site, and after saving, installed it. The display is still out. I then uninstalled the driver, and hardware, rebooted, reinstalled, and all is still the same. Subsequent Findings: Safe mode, as well as other modes, will not fix problem. All these are lit and viewable on laptop LCD screen. Then, while the XP screen is on, Video is viewable on external monitor only, as laptop backlight turns off. I downloaded and installed ATI Radeon driver with no improvement.

I just wanted to thank you for the great instructions here on replacing the power jack. Thank you for your wonderfully helpful tutorial! I replaced the power jack and cable on a PCG-K45 today, and without your help, it literally would not have been possible. By the way, the PCG-K45 was just different enough to make it a little extra challenging. So the screen never came completely off. But the project was doable without removing the screen completely.

The information you provided was far more than I needed and consequently it took some time to pinpoint what I was looking for. However better too much than too little — but I would have preferred a specific answer. I have a K I am having the same over heating problem as many others. I took my laptop to step 8 but I started reading ahead and did not see a step that involved the heat sink.

I think the thermal paste has dired up an I need to replace it. How do I do this? Make sure the CPU is seated correctly. Apply a drop of fresh thermal grease on the top of the CPU. Install and secure the heat sink. How can i solve this?

I have a Sony AR21S running watching tele on it , a fizz like a fuse popping and dead. No response whatever from the power button whether on mains or battery. Battery charging light does not illuminate. Soemthing you have come across? Thanks for the information and pictures re: removing the keyboard from my PCGK All went well. Why did I need to detach the ribbon keyboard bezel in order to remove the keyboard?

It seemed as if I could have avoided this step. In order to make sure it was a faulty keyboard, I removed the keyboard and used air to clean the board. Key number 7 did not function. When I reattached the keyboard, the same problem continued and I ordered a new keyboard. When the new keyboard arrives, I would like to avoid detaching the keyboard bezel if possible.

I would appreciate your advice. Again thanks for your help and pictures. Also it will run well on battery until it dies but if I plug the AC adapter in while it is running it will inexplicably shut down as though it lost all battery power. I replaced the battery charging board, reseated the CPU, and applied new thermal grease to the heatsink. I have 2 different adapters and 2 seperate batteries all with the same problem.

What would you reccomend be my next course of action? You site is brilliant …thanks a million…I mangled the power jack and we have taken it apart as you showed ,,,,,,,can we connect it directly with the power cable.. I have a pcg kz. Also we cannot seem to remove the dvd. Hi, I took out and cleaned my fan assy. The laptop shuts off like the power button was pushed. Tried different hard drives, reloaded windows with recovery disk. Will stay on fine in bios setup, and took an hour to reinstall oper.

However no mater what hard drive or oper. Even tried linux, no help. My thanks for any help. I took out and cleaned my fan assy. Did you remove the CPU from the socket during the disassembly process? Did you reseat the CPU? Maybe the CPU is making bad contact with the socket. Did you try reconnecting memory modules? Thanks for a wonderful post. I was wondering if someone could recommend what upgrades can I perform on my laptop.

Take a look at ebay listings. I think you can ask him about compatibility directly. I have removed all the screws but it seems like its suck down on the left side. I have had a couple PCG-K33 where the battery charge lights flashes but no charging takes place.

The machine will not run on battery it is completely dead. I tried new battery. Do you think it is the internal battery board? Lex, check carefully every single screw has been removed, there is one in the middle which is quite deep and cannot be seen which has to be removed, as well as all around the sides and one near the bottom left.

It should come out easily with a little slide to the left. Ah if only i had seen this guide earlier, i would have then avoided taking out so many screws trying to remove the heatsink! Anyway thanks to this guide and the comments below i had the courage to use some force to remove the heatsink after removing the screws, cleaned out all the dust and will apply new thermal paste to the overheating cpu.

Hopefully it works without overheating now! As some users posted here, the fan turns on for a second and stops but the power light remains on and the display remains with no backlight. I used a contact-cleaning spray on the conectors of the power board the one left of the battery and reasembled, with no luck. As lost resort, I removed the CPU and installed it in a pentium-4 MSI board, and it worked just fine, so I believe the motherboard or the power board are broken.

There is anything else I could do to for this notebook? Yes it runs fine on AC. I have bought a battery power board. I can put that in. Unless you have another thought? The other day my PCG — K25 froze. It had to be shut down with the power button. Now it will turn on but there is nothing on the screen — totally black. I typed my password anyway, but nothing. I plugged a regular monitor and nothing. Fans come on and react as the processor heats up.

DVD player has power can be heard when PC is turned on and will accept discs , wireless button shows power when turned on, HDD seems to spin up. I had this baby for 6 years and it has been great.

Before I buy a new one, is there anything to be done? Do you have two modules installed? Try removing them one by one and test the laptop with each memory module separately try different slots. If one of the memory modules is bad, the laptop with start fine when you remove it. I took out one of my RAM modules remembering reading this as a solution somewhere and it booted normally. Rebboted and it did it again a little later. I took the same RAM module and have been running it with no problems just quiet slower and will troubleshoot it this way.

Yes, I have done that and it seems that the culprit is the original RAM module. It is running good without it. The RAM in there now is a Samsung, which i added less than two years ago. Does anybody has a suggestion for my problem? I have an old vaio PCG-K13 it stoped working suddenly. Sounds like a failed motherboard. Unfortunately, there is no much you can do to fix the problem. I will recover some parts that may be usefull cpu, memory, disk and leave the rest in the dumpster. Correction — actually I need the flat ribbon cable connecting the power button board with the motherboard.

Any info where to buy it will be highly appreciated. Mine is the K23 which makes me wonder about the differences, I just bought a new motherboard off eBay because this system is notorious for overheating and burning out and mine did just that, the power jack and adapter are FINE, the motherboard is now a doorstop so I am further disassembling mine at present, but I am not sure how to avert disaster with a new board in place and the same threat lurking.

Have not seen this in other laptops so was not sure Windows Mem management was to blame. You can try updating the laptop BIOS to the latest version. This might help. Also, you can try using different brand RAM modules. Try installing one memory module at a time into each slot. Make sure the laptop detects memory in each slot. I have tried that too, it only reports MB of the MB on each module.

So if I try only one of the new modules I get MB. Same phenomenon in both slots. Maybe you must use PC, not PC modules? I know that PC is backward compatible with PC but maybe for some strange reason your laptop can properly detect only PC?

This is just a guess. Over the past several months, some keys on the right side of the keyboard have started to fail no output from key press. First the END key.

I have seen online that individual keys are available for sale and replacement. One site had instructions for installing replacement keys, but not for removing keys from the keyboard. I am competent with electronics repair but prefer to have instructions to prevent unnecessary damage. My questions are: Is key removal and contact cleaning advisable? If not, is key replacement preferable? Is keyboard replacement the only recommended solution? My compliments for the disassemble guide!

I wonder if in my case it is only the dust in the fans etc. Can anyone tell me how much the regular CPU temperature should be? Maybe the CPU slows down because of heat. Also, could be hard drive failure. Run hard drive test. Try cleaning the heatsink and maybe reapply thermal grease between the heatsink and CPU.

Hi I just disambled my laptop as it seems to get too hot all the time. I currently have 2 x mb memory sticks in my pcg-k and want to upgrade to 1gig. Did anyone solve the issues that many mention about increased memory not being recognised?

I was wondering whether 2 x or 1 x 1gig would be better? Any advice appreciated and btw, what a brilliant guide. Hi all, I have got PCG-KS, I do not know, what is going on, but my power adapter is out of order, I have replaced it with new one, but after I tried to start it up, no effect, just power led light flashed. Do anyone know what to do to solve this anomaly? Or where is the problem?

Already thanks. I have got PCG-KS, I do not know, what is going on, but my power adapter is out of order, I have replaced it with new one, but after I tried to start it up, no effect, just power led light flashed. If laptop will not start with a new AC adapter and the power LED flashes, most likely this is motherboard related failure. Just in case, try reseating memory modules. Try turning on the laptop with each module separately. They just took all my content and change watermarks on all pictures.

What a pathetic loser. No power. Wanted to try and see if I could rHad power until I was trying a downloaded Sony file to get Nvidia to work better. After waiting about 5 minutes or so I push the dvd ejector button and remove disk. Push on-off button. Nothing happens. Using a paperclip, I insert into the dvd drive release hole and the whole laptop powers off immediately.

My charger checks out ok. The battery light earlier showed it to not need charging. I tried for several days to get a power on light. I did the remove battery , hold down on-off button 30 second trick over and over. I have opened the laptop case at the speaker section across the top and look for loose wiring or anything looking unusual.

Also did the memory removal, reinsert memory mentioned. Any idea what happened. If nothing else, I think it is super of you techs to document to show others how to do these things.

If the laptop just stopped working completely no power light, no LED light, no activity at all, etc… , the first thing would be to test the AC adapter.

You said the charger checks out OK but does it work properly under load when connected to the laptop? Find another adapter to test the laptop. I tried another power source charger. Laptops are too expensive to work on anyway. LOL Thanks. I found some, but not for this model. Hello u cant give me an awnser for my questions? This sounds like keyboard related problem.

Yes, if you have Wi-Fi antenna cables installed. The wireless card slot located under the keyboard. You can see it in the step 9, on the left side from the cooling fan. You can remove the keyboard and take a look at the slot. Do you have Wi-Fi antenna cables in there?

If yes, you can install internal Wi-Fi card. Laptop boots up, gets to Windows logo and just freezes the little scrolling bar underneath the logo moves about 3 times. When it freezes, I noticed that the LED for the memory slot is illuminated just to the left of the wireless switch. Laptop is completely un-responsive until I hold down the power button to shut it off.

I can get to the BIOS just fine. Starting in safe mode also seems to work fine or used to. Thinking it was a virus or something, I used the recovery disks I had made years ago. Problem now is that the OS is not completely installed, as when it re-starts to finish the OS installation it just freezes at the windows logo again.

I am thinking it is an issue with the pro media memory slot itself hardware. I have sony laptop model pcg-3G5L When its displaying it shows Small lines on the botom sreen Can any one give any Advice please. I have sony laptop model pcg-3G5L When its displaying it shows Small lines on the botom sreen. What kind of lines? Vertical, horizontal? Are they flickering? Can you make them go away by moving the display? Also, did you check your laptop with an external monitor? Do you see same lines on the external image?

Tried to open the laptop based on your pix and by the way its awesome- to reset my bios by pulling out the cmos battery for 15 min then put it back but still the same result. Do you have any idea how to resolve this?

Had a similar problem — not my laptop. Maybe I got lucky but I found that inserting the appropriate memory card permitted the thing to boot would not boot without the card. Once in windows I disabled the slot in device manager and it seemed to work OK — obviously the slot does not work. I have also seen that, in the most severe cases, you have to leave the card in AND disable it in Device Manager obviously the card slot then cannot be used. If you are game for it I have also known people simply diassemble the machine as above and simply remove the thing!

Hope it helps! Now it works fine, just replace,clean it ,and put back! Enzo from Berlin Germany. The hard disk was not recognized after defragmenting it. A friend said that I needed to replace the disk. So I bought the new part and without seeing your description I disassembled my PC. I figured out how to remove the bottom screws and found the keyboard latches and removed the keyboard.

I had hoped that I could still salvage the computer by using a USB mouse instead, so I installed the new hard disk in its mount and reassembled everything. When I powered on the computer, the disk spun, the display showed the VIAO logo, and ctl-alt-del could cause a re-boot. It seemed like all was OK. I guess that the cable I severed was also distributing power to the DVD drive. Is this correct? If not, have I screwed up something else? Maybe you could also tell me where to buy a replacement cable.

Tried an external monitor and that works fine. Do you think it is the back light? If so — where can I order a replacement and can you illustrate how to replace on the laptop? Hi i need help. Please help thanks in advance….. Is there much difference between disassembling the K model vs.

We have an L model and just want to make sure we know if there are any surprises waiting for us. One more thing — is a desoldering pump necessary? Your pictures, diagrams, and explanation are very helpful. Thank you for taking time to supply this information to others!

God Bless! When I powered it up after re-assembly, I had a problem! Great guide! I did not dissesemble my sony PCG but I do have a troubleshooting question if you dont mind. Install of Intel Centrino wireless adapter advanced n Sony computer's drivers manually through energy efficiency and software free.

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