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GRX - Second memory slot.

William
Visitor

GRX - Second memory slot.

Just noticed at Vaio village that another unfortunate soul has a problem with their GRX memory slots.

William

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kee-lo_
Member

Ah poor them.
Which model?

William
Visitor
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robpaxton
Explorer

Heaven knows how many people have had the same problem and don't frequent these forums. Also a lot of people probably have the problem and don't even know it :slight_frown:

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kee-lo_
Member

Ah I see
Wonder how many MP's have had this issue?

lbarclay
Visitor

:angry: :angry: :angry:

Hi, just wondered if anyone had had any similar problems with the GRV516G.

Ive owned it for 9 months and was very happy up until this week - when it started freezing and reporting only having 256MB installed instead of the 512MB !

Spec is: 512MB (sometimes!!), WIndows XP pro, wireless LAN PCMCIA(when needed), USB mouse.

Symptoms:
Intermittently freezes - no concistency over when (time or currently running software)
Intermittently reports 256MB in the PC rather than 512MB (both in BIOS and XP)
User gets angry :slight_smile:

My initial thoughts were MM problems so I decided to remove the additional MM and see if it would run OK with the original 256MB - ironically when I was writing this post the first time I discovered that the machine also 'acts up' when running the original 256MB only - I am not happy! I am currently trying it running with only the additional 256MB MM (obviously in the first slot)- luckily my PC is still in warranty. However I cant do without it for weeks, not really even days as I use it for work 10 hours a day.

What can I expect from Sony Support?

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robpaxton
Explorer

You can expect them to replace the motherboard. I got my GRX back in less than a week.
Your problem may however be faulty memory, I haven't heard of the slot problem with the GRV series

lbarclay
Visitor

less than a week - thats much quicker than I expected!
Gold star to Sony on that one!

dont think its a memory problem - have no tried:

both MM on their own, both together (in both slots) and problem still occurss - since my last post I am now also getting problems powering on the machine - needing to hold the power button down and restart! waiting for a complete death of the PC soon :slight_frown:

Have a delivery of a website in a weeks time - cr*p timing!

Thanks for the reply

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robpaxton
Explorer

I hope you get it returned as quickly as me. Make sure you do a full backup before you return it - they invariably restore the hard drive to it's original state.

borgi
Visitor

Hi!
I'm the unlucky soul with the broken slot. :slight_frown:

Unfortunately, I just have one year warranty and it seems that my Notebook takes the same way as almost every other sony hardware I own: It breaks just after the warranty expired...