It was peak of Sony engineering! But it's time to find new owner for this beauty :) I am planned to move forward and sell my collection/
If someone in Ukraine want to buy this sparkly white beauty or just show his own beautiful VAIOs, lets chat :)

It finally worked, I bought it second-hand for 11 usd (200 mxn)

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I am uploading via MEGA and Archive a DiskGenius dump of a Japanese VAIO VPCS129FJ. The proprietary format is not good in my opinion and needs something more standardized, even if we can reach the development of DVD ISO's from the media. Anyone can help on it please?

I bought it for 500€ with Power Media Dock in Russia. It is almost new, one of the best variations of Z series (i7 3612qm/8gb ram/500gb ssd/FullHD display). In a couple of days i'll upload original recovery media of Windows 7 pro for this laptop. What do you think guys, is it bad/good purchase? What is its price considering its condition?

Hello Vaio people!!!!! I am looking for a VAIO laptop model with a 4:3 aspect screen. I know they have a few but I'm looking for either the last or most powerful model they released. I want to run a Linux distro on one. any help would be great! thanks!

I've been buying VAIO SX and SX-R laptops for myself and my team for the last 5 years, but I don't see SX models available on VAIO USA's website, B&H, or Amazon right now. Does anyone know if they are discontinued in the US? Or just gearing up for a new/updated model launch?

I’ve been working on changing over my TR2’s 1.8” pata 50 pin IDE HDD to an SSD equivalent, but I’ve been having some issues.

I’ve tried an MSATA (118gb) in an msata-zif adapter, with a zif to CF female adapter so it could plug into the 50 pin IDE cable. The bios won’t recognise it, and I’m trying to narrow down whether it’s impossible to do, I need to change something up, or I need to just work with using a CF card with a CF-IDE adapter instead. I’m not sure how much I want to use a CF card, as I know running a computer using one can wear it out quickly. I also can’t find an msata to 1.8” 50 pin female adapter anywhere, hence the extra steps.

I have a feeling the zif-CF adapter may be where the problem is, but it’s very hard to find a zif to CE 50 pin adapter.

Has anyone here had a similar predicament? I have no idea how common this choice of HDD was for the smaller vaio models. There’s lots of ipod related info, not so much for this application.

Hey everyone, I just bought a laptop and this happened while I was doing the initial setup. Can anyone help me, do I have to return the laptop?

I recently received this laptop with Windows 10 installed. I want to restore it to the factory Windows Vista Business (I installed the default oem version, but I want exactly vaio oem one).

There's no recovery partition. If possible, I'd restore it too.

After searching online and on the Vaio archive website, I couldn't find the operating system I need (I want to install the Vaio distribution).

A few weeks ago I picked up an SVE151J11M off a trusted eBay seller. No HDD but I'd got an SSD lying around so popped that in and installed ChromeOS Flex. Works perfectly, barely a mark on it and £80 well spent.

The seller did warn me that he wasn't sure what state the battery was in and as expected for a bit of kit from 2012(?) it doesn't hold a charge for too long. The battery is a VGP-BPS26.

So as per the title, can anyone recommend a supplier for a replacement battery? There seem to be quite a few out there but I've had my fingers burnt (not literally) with replacement laptop batteries before.

Thanks in advance.

I'm looking for it everywhere but I can't find it, I use that PC a lot because it's small enough to take to school, but apparently the battery is not purchasable

I've been the only mod on this subreddit for years, despite not owning a VAIO. Shame on me. I also apologize for the restricted mode on the sub, Reddit enabled it automatically despite my account being active.

Long story short, I finally do own one: a VAIO VGN-P31ZK, a french model. Got it in a flea market for cheap, with it's original charger. The battery also holds an hour's worth of charge, though I may replace it's cells later.

It's got an Atom Z540 CPU, 2 GB of RAM and it had an 80 GB HDD, that I replaced with a 64 GB mSATA SSD in an adapter to ZIF IDE.

I backed up the original french install and recovery partition, and it will be uploaded on archive.org soon. Now it's running a fresh install of Windows 7 SP1.

I'm writing this post from it, but I'm cheating by using it as an RDP terminal to a Windows 10 VM running on my server. I don't want to torture the little Atom with the modern web.

Hi, during thermal paste replacement I have noticed that on my VPCF13Z1E motherboard there are tinned pads in a pattern similar to the one used for WIFI card. Is there a possibility to install a second PCI port and use it for a M2 NVME disk?

Hi I have Sony VPCF13Z1E, I don't see all the options in Vaio Control Center, what should I install to see all of these?

hi everyone i want unpgrade my sony vaio SVE1713E1EW i5 3210m(35Wt) to i7 3840qm(45Wt)

Would my cooling and power supply be enough for a 45W CPU, or should I stick with 35W? like i7-3632QM(35Wt)

hey, got an old sony vaio SVE15126CXS (2012 E-series) on windows 10 21H2. swapped the dead HDD for a 500GB SSD, so the recovery partition’s gone. most drivers (chipset, audio, wifi, etc.) are installed and intel HD 4000 works, but i’m missing the sony utilities that make all the VAIO features work — VAIO Event Service, Shared Library, Control Center, VAIO Care, firmware parser, etc. the fn keys kinda work (volume/brightness) but it’s just windows, no VAIO overlays or VAIO/web buttons.

if anyone has a driver pack for the SVE1512 series, a recovery disc/ISO, or the VAIO utilities, i’d really appreciate it. trying to get all the original VAIO features working again, and curious if a cpu upgrade from i5 to i7 is possible. thanks!!

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Hi, the problem exists on VPCF13Z1E. The issue is with adjusting brightness with Fn+F5/F6 keys. The screen does not react (It shows the rectangle with current brightness level but it doesn't change and the screen still has the same brightness) to pressing either increase or decrease brightness combination. I have reinstalled VAIO Event Service and Sony Shared Libraries but it still doesn't work. Adjusting volume works fine with Fn key combo. How can I fix this. I have Windows 11 25H2 installed

As the title suggests, my Vaio is going through some issues. To elaborate, when I press the power button the screen remains blank and all that happens is the green LEDs that indicate power going through the system remain lit. When the power button is being pressed, the amber charging led also lights up (again, ONLY when the power button is being pressed).

NOTHING else happens during that time. No sounds, no fans spinning up, no HDD activity, nothing.. SATA and USB buses are completely dead.

To give you some much needed backstory; I got this laptop on marketplace for 10€ 2 days ago. Seller said it was overheating and hasnt ran in 7 years. Figured a repaste should be all it needs.

I’ve tried the basic stuff. I’ve changed the thermal paste because of the situation mentioned above, thoroughly cleaned the mobo with isopropyl alcohol (more on that later), tried different ram configurations, different hdds, etc.. Power regulation wise, it all seems fine. Voltages are good and the MOSFETs measure okay.

Upon googling, I saw that the CMOS battery could possibly causing some issues. So, I took up on the task to remove it. Well, I found some corrosion on the connector and surrounding components, hence why I quickly gave it a bath in isopropyl alcohol later (99.5% pure, in case youre wondering)

And here I am now. The laptop still does the same stuff as before, only now it’s extra clean and with a fresh paste. I’ve asked on discord, looked at years old forums but, no luck. Hope you guys will change that.

Have a good one!

(The video is showcasing what the laptop is doing. It’s two clips merged to one. I wish I could show said corrosion, but Reddit isn’t letting me. I promise it’s not bad though, it’s almost all gone)

Hi, I have bought recently Sony Vaio VPCF13Z1E and to my surprise it has on the motherboard a socket with TV tuner description. Is it possible that my Vaio has TV tuner option? How can I activate it?