Sony vaio vgn-sz58gn service manual

I already know about the transfer kits lijke Apricot, but not an option for me! I successfully changed my old hard disk with a new Intel XM G2 80GIG and used the recovery disks to recover the OS and other sony applications, thanks the excellent instructions provided by you. I cannot get the fan to run but I am not sure if there is a heat sensor which may be the problem instead of the fan itself. Great, I hope you get your reward in the satisfaction of helping other people or go on to financial benefit.

Lenthy but thank you. Its weird because i can only hear very little noise with my headphone plugged in and the volume all the way up? If anybody has figured out this issue or knows how to fix this please let me no. Also When i Connect to my wifi it connects and disconnects at any time.

I downgraded from vista to Xp pro thinking it would solve these problems but i am still having these issues. Let me no Anything.

It tells me there is a problem with hardware. In most laptop the sound card integrated into the motherboard and cannot be replaced separately. Did you test your laptop with another Wi-Fi router? I had a similar problem at home. I have two different routers but my laptop was disconnecting from one of them all the time.

Try changing the security type in the connection properties. Anyone replaced a motherboard in an SZ series? I bought a faulty battery off of ebay emart. S is not hard, but SZ looks like a major pain. Thanks a ton. So if you are stuck and need some help do drop me mail on gmail santoshajadhav ….. Thanks for your excellent step by step tutorial. I have an SZ that has to be plugged in to AC power to work. I have tried several new batteries to no avail. I think there is a faulty charging system.

Do you have any idea as to how to fix such on the mother board. I cannot tell without testing the laptop. If the jack is loose, it has to be resoldered. It is completely crazy and does crazy things by its own if I touch it. In consequence, I need to use an external mouse. Two questions: some of you changed the fan, are the replacements working with lower noise?

It have been impossible to find one. Thanks a lot! The laptop was running extremely hot and shutting down. I found that the heatsink had been previously removed and the thermal paste had not been replaced.

After replacing the thermal paste, it no longer overheats to the point of shutting down. However it is still gets quite hot. Is there any way to test the fan without buying a new one and replacing it? Any advice on how to reach the fan would be much appreciated. Do you have any fan grill on the bottom or side of the laptop? Buy a can of compressed air and blow air inside the fan grill.

Try this first. I have a series of about multicolored vertical thin lines on the far left of my lcd display. They run from top to bottom completely. They have been there for quite a while. Sometimes it seem like they are not as bright as others. Could this be a lose connection to the motherboard?

If these lines appear only on one side of the screen, most likely this is LCD screen failure. When the video cable fails, usually it affects image on the entire screen, not just part of the screen.

Just in case, test your laptop with an external monitor. First excellent guide. Spoke with Sonystyle and they were no help. Their suggestion was to buy a new Vaio. Do I need to stay with a rpm drive or a smaller drive?

Any recommendations? Any suggestions? Hi have 2 problems with SZ that will not detect AC charge, therefore will not charge battery. Plug seem to go directly onto MOBO. Make sure you are using the right AC adapter. Test AC adapter with a voltmeter.

Make sure it outputs correct voltage. This could be software related problem. Not just drivers, but something wrong with the OS. Try reinstalling the OS. I just had a fan replaced from outside country and today I want to use 2nd monitor but my notebook cannot detect any monitors.

Can you tell me what they are miss or not connect cable? Thank you! Were you able to use second monitor before? Have you tried a keyboard shortcut to switch from internal to external monitor? Hi there, excelent manual, i took a cuple of days to find how to remove some hiden parts, that you explain very well here. This is great! Thanks for posting this. Once started and stabilized, it seems to work just fine.

This happens with both battery and adapter — I have two sets of each, as well as a spare set of RAMs. Not sure if the motherboard is dying or not, perhaps voltage regulation issue, or IR drop under load. Could be the fan.. Any idea what to troubleshoot inside the machine? Great, Fantastic repair guides.

In your guide, after pulling out switch panel, can the switch be replaced or repair? Is there a configuration methds to work around. Much Thanks. Tim D. Repair Complete! Got the switch panel out, the plastic molding of the feet to move the slider switch were deformed, set the switch to permanently on. Thanks for the clear directions. As a hint you can add a second screen through the VGA port via cable. All you need to do is press FN Key and F7 to select dual screen mode.

Make sure you do this before a disk is entered in the disk drive as it will not work if you try to change the mode after the notebook detects a disk in the disk drive. On picture below Step 15, is the yellow arrow pointing to where the ribbon cable connecting to the hard drive is to be removed to lift out the hard drive or should this be done on the hard drive end itself?

The thin white strip seems to be holding the cable on top of the black plastic part. Which of these 3 parts should I be trying to disconnect the cable from?

I want to replace my cpu in mine. What i wanted to ask is do i need a specific one or can i use any processor for it. And also can i replace it or not? Thanks i need an answer asap. Will be really grateful. To remove the keyboard on my VGN-SZP, prior to your step2, you have to undo a recessed screw underneath the notebook. This is located immediately to the left of the docking socket looking from underneath. Also the left hand latch step4 is under the F1 key. Hope this is useful.

Suggestions on locating entire NEW palm rest with mouse?? Great site with excellent pictures and descriptions! Thank you. It will be necessary to go though all steps in my disassemble and after that remove the top cover assembly.

Hi, I ordered a replacement palmrest for a sony vaio fw d laptop n it came without a trackpad. Thought it was included. Do I have to order the trackpad separate? Thanks Bongbiemi. Recently I accidentally dropped my laptop and now there is no sound. I think the sound card has some problem. Could you tell me where the sound card is located at? Could be just loose cable connection. I need to replace the fan. If you get it this far, is it easy to replace the fan?. Fan-very noisy.

In looks like in this laptop the fan is mounted on the bottom of the motherboard. Tried removing from hard drive without disconnecting at the motherboard but seem to be stuck in with adhesive tape. Can you lift up the hard drive as it shown on the step 16?

Disconnect the orange cable from the hard drive. Grab the hard drive cable connector and carefully pull the hard drive to the left. I have an old SZ that still works well for me. It had been rattling and sounding like an airplane for the past year, with high CPU temps. I followed everthing to the letter and it worked! THe biggest challenge was not dropping screws into the computer and keeping track of the sequence.

Did you replace the fan and heatsink or just the fan? I think I am having the same issues you are and need to do the same thing, but I was wondering if I should just order the fan or fan and heatsink. Thanks for the step-by-step pictures.

Very clear instructions. Found your site after I took apart and reassembled my SZN to clean the fan. I removed the keyboard and palm rest did not remove the cables and tried to get to expose more of the fan, but gave up. Does it give you an error message? By the way, some laptop that come with Vista do not support XP. Before you jump in and reformat the hard drive, visit the Sony website and find out if they have device drivers for Windows XP.

However you might not be able to find xp drivers for the motherboard devices ie. One day my keyboard suddenly responded strangely. Some keys do not response. Some keys respond as other keys.

Horrified, I reboot the computer. A lot of noises beep-beep-beep during the start up process. But the computer can start. But the keyboard problem persist.

This beep-beep-beep sounds like a stuck key on the keyboard. Try replacing the keyboard first and if you still experience the same problem, apparently there is a problem with the keyboard controller. Thank you so much for posting those links, my FE21s has something wrong with its Wifi switch so no bluetooth or wifi unless i keep my finger pressed against the switch!

Anyway thanks for the service manual. In most cases, this is simply a matter of applying contact cleaner to the internal wireless switch. On rare occasions the motherboard will need to be replaced. May all mighty Allah bless u all. I need a service manual. I hav by mistake change de power setting. There are certain trip like switches on de mother board. They are changed by me. Can any body help me. Sorry i forget 2 tell model no. Of my laptop. Its sony vaio model no.

I realy need its service manual badly. When i switch on the laptop the screen i blank and white in color. CPU fan is not workin. Can u help me. Post your e-mail up here and we can talk. And yes, you can pay the postage. Please, I need to replace my hard disk on my Vaio vgn-tznb, would you help me with the repair manual?

Thank you in advance. Do they use the same hardware connectors and interface? Thanx for the Sony repair manual links — sure appriciate it. Now if you run into a set of links for the exploded views with part numbers for ordering… that would complete what i need to fix my VGN-SZn. Do I need to remove keyboeard?? Where can I find some more infos?? Thank you!!! I have a Toshiba centrino laptop, it had been serving me 2 for years but now it has a problem with its LCD screen. Sometimes the screen goes off when playing film or music but the film or music sound is still playing, and I still can see the statement of the film still moving on in a very dim image.

I am sure that my laptop is normally working except the backlight. When this problem happens, I close the lid and my laptop goes to standby mode,after that I open the lid and the screen it lit again, Sometimes I have to close and open several times to get it lit back.

One thing very special, If I open the lid lower or equal 90 degree, It just flash in milisecond and then turns dark. If I open it more than 90degree, It works fine.

Anyone has good ideas? Please help me! I am sure that when dismantling the laptop, you have accidentally removed the tape sticked on the IB inverter board. The IB is usually laid inside a transparent cubic plastic tube located under screen. Please take the IB out of the tube and wrap it with transparent sellotape around it as spiral shape from head to end till IB is fully wrapped. Remember not to remove any sellotape sticked on mainboard. Thank you for those links!

Could be memory related problem. Try that first. Recently there was an spark from the cooling vent area and it followed bit of smoke. After that the cooling fan stopped working. I also realized that there is a thin strip of line on my display. However, still the laptop is working. That is beyond my affordability. Could anyone suggest me what might be wrong with the laptop? Is it enough just replace the fan or the whole motherboard has to be replaced?

I cannot tell without looking at the laptop. From your description I assume that you have a fried component on the motherboard and replacing the cooling fan will not help. Dear cj, I was also fearing that a component on the mother board is fried. However, when I followed your clues and checked both the motherboard and cooling fan area, I found out something interesting.

Actually the smoke was coming from the dust gathered in the cooling fan area and I am still not sure about the sparks. Anyway, after cleaning the 1 inch thik layer of dust from the vent area everything is back to normal. Even the display is ok. Is there a method of reattaching it, or should I find a replacement keyboard? I discovered one of my RAM chips was bad, indeed. On one occasion, I noticed the timer had not progressed and the progress bar looked erratic but working.

I lifted the laptop with my right hand grasping the right side of the keyboard. The timer had jumped to its correct time and the progress bar displayed as expected. I put the laptop down and the timer froze. The progress bar went wonky again. I was thinking of putting rubber padding underneath the mainboard where the ATI chip is located. I was also thinking about taking the fan and heatsink off and putting one or even two thin copper or aluminum squares with thermal grease between the ATI chip and the heatsink.

I have tried removed the cmos battery bur it does not help. Anyone has another way to bypass it? I got problem with my Sony laptop VGN cr, no led, no power at all, I think something goes wrong with power supply.

Can some one tell me where to buy sony power supply or where to down load diagram of sony vgn cr??? Tks a lot!!!! Hi, can any one show me where to download diagram for power supply of sony vgn cr????? Many thanks!! Actually both the speakers are not working. External speakers and headphones are working properly while connecting them in it.

But I dont know, what is the problem in the internal speaker? Should I reinstall the driver? Kindly, assit me to fix this problem. Neither the modem nor the LAN ethernet port seem to be detected by the operating system — Vista Business. BIOS options seem to be extremely limited. How do I enable the modem or LAN ports? Could be software related problem.

Have you tried reinstalling device drivers for the modem and LAN? If still no help, most likely you have a faulty motherboard and it has to be replaced. If anyone can help, I would really appreciate it. Thank you. Thanks for the quick response. There are only 2 screws on top and the bottom seems to be attached to the hinge. I tried opening it up but could only get it to open halfway.

Sir i am having a sony laptop VGN-FE41Z of which i am looking for a complete service manual can you provide me with the same please. The wire dose not look like a copper one. Inside the insulation looks like a string. What can I do to fix my blunder?

Okay I have a Sony Vaio laptop at work I need to replace the keyboard on. No one seems to be able to tell me how to dismantle to replace this part in the model that I have. Test the power adapter first. Make sure the laptop is getting power from the wall. I have barely used it and left it in pristine condition. If I move the top of the laptop toward me, sometimes the image comes back to normal. If I move it backward, then the image freezes and goes white again.

External monitor works fine. I opened the top and bottom of the laptop, and checked the connection on both sides, it seems fine. Is it possible that the cable is getting squished in the hinge.. Lately I have been using the laptop without the LCD bezel, and I removed the left speaker to give the cable more breathing room. I think this is ridiculous! Have you ever seen something like this? Your description sounds like a problem with the LCD screen.

Apparently there is a bad solder joint somewhere on the LCD controller and it fails intermittently. It depends on what kind of noise you have. In some cases cleaning the fan will help.

Can you or anyone post it? FWIW the one listed here is the previous series. Hey Gecko I have the same problem with the wireless switch on a vaio FE41m did you managed to solve the problem?? Please help!!! I had the same problem with my fan. I suggest you clean it using cotton buds soaked in soapy water then lubricate the fan bearing with castor oil using an injection needle.

It recently stopped functioning. When I power the unit on it sounds like it is starting normally. Where do I need to start? Charlie Blair, Could be memory failure. Try reconnecting memory modules, make sure they make good connection with the slots. Try removing memory modules one by one. Test the laptop with each module separately. One of the modules could be bad and the laptop will start when the bad module is removed.

I have sony vaio laptop, buy from Spain, malaga. When I push the power button the power led comes on and stays on for just a few seconds and turns off. Is this a power problem or something else?

I need help finding a part to buy and replacing the DC jack. What could this be. Thanks for any help you can give me. Note: I already replace my Hardisk with the new one, cause i assume there a problem with my old hardisk, but it not resolve that problem. Yesterday, I was watching a video online and my computer was on the charger. Then, all of a sudden, the computer shut down, and made a crashing type of sound, which worried me.

Then, after A minute, I pressed the power button to on the computer and the power was not working, meaning the computer just does not turn on , and I tried so hard to turn it on, but it just does not.

Can you tell me what the problem might be as to why my laptop just does not turn on? Are there any solutions? I mean I had files in my computer and I am just so worried about it. Thanks so much! Good Luck. Has anyone done this before? Can you help? Has anyone tried this? I am looking for Scemetic diagram of the mother board. I want to repair it. Because I have a power problem. It does not start.

Looking for your help. Hey all, i hav sony vaio VGN-s series with 1. When i slapped it little, it starts working… and after few days… it power on but nothing on screen…..

Nice resource! Need to swap hard drive. Could be memory failure. Try replacing the memory module with a new one and test the laptop again. Do you have two memory modules in your laptop? Try removing them one by one. If one of the modules is bad, the laptop will start properly when the bad module is removed. Any one to help?? Well ……. I guess that depends on the size of your lawn. But yeah, thanks guys. I can take care of my lawn myself, but a couple of beers sounds great.

It is fantastic and hope it will remain up to date. It saves alot of money to those who wants to do the job own their own. Tried your guide for VGN-N but there still seems to be something holding the keyboard as I am unable to release the 5 tabs. So the trick is to keep prising the keyboard at the end where the 3 screws were and it will eventually unstick. This is Khondker from Bangladesh. It was working fine for 4 months. But now a problem has appeared. The problem is — When I switch on or power my laptop.

It starts. The power indicator light remains green. But my Lcd screen appears black. I reinstalled my system, but no progress. At the time of booting, my screen shows light for 1 second, after that it remains black. If I plug other monitor it shows the screen there properly. But my laptop screen remains black. The bottom panel was easy enough to remove, but that only gets me access to the RAM and the Wireless card.

Go to the device manager and find the webcam in there. Right click on the webcam and uninstall the driver. Now reboot the laptop and let it detect the webcam and reinstall the drivers. This might help. I have a sony laptop pcg-9s1p, recently it bootup and go to the windows screen them shut down. What wrong with it. Can anyone help me? Please can someone help me? It would be of great help, please and thanks!!!

Hi, Thank you for all of your great efforts to prepare this web site. I am not a technican just an enthusiast replaced the screen in 1 hour without any rush. Can anyone tell me how to open the LCD screen and what the price of it. What great links for the sony service manuals. Thanks again for all your work! I want detailed service manual for laptop motherboard. Can someone tell me where can I find one. Sony no longer support this model.

All drivers updated. Any ideas or suggestions? Take a look at the screen bezel and somewhere in the lower left or right corner find the laptop model number. By the way, is the laptop still bootable? Does anybody know where I can find one? Hi I have a Sony Vaio from about 9 months now I have a problem model is PCG-3J1L charger works just does not want to transfer to the battery when the charger cord removed immediately otherwise dim goes perfectly Can anybody help or recommend the service.

PS The laptop was not bought from Bulgaria there is no guarantee! Thank you in advance! I believe all Sony laptops sold with at least 1 year warranty. There must be some kind of warranty even in Bulgaria. Have you tried calling the official service center? It worked perfectly fot 2 weeks, and then vertical red stripes appeared on the screen. My local technician said it was impossible to repair: something to do with a tfs?

Searching on the internet, I found that there is a recurrent grapic card problem on vaio fz series. Is it possible to fix this problem? I have looked all over for problems, and apparently Vaios have a lot of problems related to the trackpad. Maybe the trackpad simply disabled? Also take a look at the trackpad software installed on your laptop.

The problem is that when I power up with or without battery the screen displays Vaio logo momentarily and ever so quickly fades away. I cannot even get output to an external monitor to view bios or the os. Take a closer look at the laptop screen after it fades away. Can you see a very faint image? If yes, try replacing the inverter board. I am only abel to see something if I set ON but the BIOS come out 2 times and all strange letters while in the external monitor it is showed perfect.

Thanks for this interesting page. I need to change the keyboard and I need instructions on how to do this. I would, however, prefer a few more words about the difficulty of particular tasks. OK, so I am a noob. Just thinking my comment might help someone. I got my Sony laptop blown up last night due to incorrect adapter. Now that its blown id like to fix it myself and want to know how to go about doing it.

Toward the right half of the screen it appears to be fine. I am not sure if it is the screen or an inverter or something else. I would really appreciate some guidance. The screen backlight still works, it means the inverter board works properly. Does it look something like this? This is LCD screen failure. My keyboard is nonfunctional after spoiling some water across it:. Does anyone know of a quick fix?? When you say the screen goes blank, does it mean the backlight still there but there is no image?

Test your laptop with an external monitor. Can you get image on the external monitor? Use an external USB mouse. Right click on the touchpad and uninstall it. Restart the laptop and let it re-detect the touchpad.

I have never been able to plug to an external monitor. Hi guys, I have a sony vaio vgn-avp which is now 6 or 7 years old. Although the laptop is old, whenever I go to my mothers house I still use it, doing so now ubuntu and xp. The laptop currently has 1. So my question if someone can help me is, is it hard to upgrade all the hardware inside and keep at least the screen? Laptops are not very upgradeable. There are not many parts you can upgrade, except memory, hard drive and in some cases CPU.

This requires OS reinstall or cloning. Hi , fantastic job, great selection of manuals, I am looking for 1 in specific, Sony Vaio VGN Z11, if anyone can help with this, please send me a link. Hi , fantastic job, great selection of manuals, I am looking for 1 in specific, Sony Vaio PCG — KM, if anyone can help with this, please send me a link.

Both the keyboard and touchpad have stopped working, although F2 and F8 work when booting. New hard drive fitted with fresh install, this did not help. Not a very common model apparently. Might as well do an overhaul if I can get the relevant manual.

Look for two screws securing the DVD drive on the bottom of the laptop. If you not sure which screws securing the DVD drive, try removing all screws located under the drive. After that try pulling the DVD drive from the laptop. Before you buy a new screen, you should check connection between the video cable and LCD screen. Hello again, Also I want add that my laptop is 4 years old. Hope someone can help me. To: peejay I just took apart my Vaio, there is a line running from where the battery plugs in to where my biometric scanner and wireless toggle is located, perhaps it is broken?

The Palm top screws have come out and the manual says requirement of B3 screws. Where do I buy them from. I checked with a service center close to my place but they seem to be more focused on how much they can fleece me.

They suggested the computer would need repair in addition to cleaning, as soon as I mentioned red ants. Plus I cannot visit that city for another three weeks. Any suggestion as to what I can do to prevent further damage till I can get to a service center? I live in a not so well-connected town in India. Can anyone help me out here? I thought it was overheated but did not want to include more. When you make a power cable to the shutter release button lamp flashes. Do you have any idea where is the problem.

I have a Sony Vaio pcgL, also known as a vpcecx. I was dumb and took it on a camping trip over a very rough road. It did not like that. Now it GPFs regularly. A memory diagnostic did not turn up anything with the RAM. I want to disassemble it to see if there is something that jarred loose, etc. I am looking for a guide to disassemble the body of the sucker. It is not at all obvious.

Even a guide to replacing the keyboard would be a help, as that would get me into the case. There are no obvious tabs, screws, etc. Any help appreciated. I purchased a new plastic for the bottom and would feel much better about the repair if I had a manual. Thanks, Mike. Can you test your laptop with an external monitor? If external video works fine and the problem appears only on the laptop screen, it could be one of the following: 1. Bad connection between the video cable and LCD screen or motherboard.

Reseating connections might help. LCD screen failure. Bad video cable. It just happened to me that today morning i folder my laptop in normal way without shut down just like sleep mode. I usually do this from past 1 year or so. Surprise that, when i came and try to start my laptop, i see that alomost half of my screen Bottom went white..

Now i have no idea what went wrong as i did not do anything with laptop. I even completely restored the laptop with factory settings.. Usually the screen is not totally white.. Can some one pls help me as what could be the problem and laptop dont have warranty anymore. This sounds like a problem with the LCD screen. If you can, try reseating the video cable on the back of the screen first.

There should be a different model number for this laptop. Look at the lower right corner of the screen. What does it say? Look in the lower right corner of the display. Your description is not very clear. If I understand correctly, your laptop turns on but all you getting is a black screen.

Can you see any faint image on the screen at all? Can you test your laptop with an external monitor and find out if external video still works? Maybe this is memory related problem. Thanks in advance! I am needing to replace a dc power cable and plug and need to find instructions for dis and reassembly. I am needing to replace a dc power plug and need to find instructions for disssebbly and reassembly for my PCGL. I also need the part for the power plug. I just turned it on today and found that when I plug or unplug it the screen flickers and goes black for a bit and then returns to normal.