Comments on: How to take apart Sony Vaio VGN-FZ220 laptop. Replacing power jack.

By: Anastasios

Anastasios — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:04:55 +0000

Great instructions.Replaced the power jack,Laptop works fine… saved $100. Thank you

By: Ted

Ted — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 19:28:28 +0000

Thank you very much,

Your picture saved my computer. Only thing I don’t need to do is removing Keyboard apart from that, which save my power surge or shut down problem.

Thanks again

By: esboy

esboy — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:35:12 +0000

Thank you for a very detailed and clear instructions. I would like to give it a try on my 3 yr old VGN-FZ298CE that works fine the last time I used it. I haven’t used this laptop very often until one day, I find out that it wont turn on. At first I hear some noise from the fan and cd drive. But now, those were gone too. My only hope for now was the green and orange light in front indicating it still accepts power. Which steps should I follow just to reset RTC (CMOS) battery? Thanks

By: Sonia

Sonia — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 06:16:56 +0000

THANK YOU!!!!! very clear & easy to follow instrctions. My kind of teacher! I searched high and low on how to do this. You instrctions are the clearest and easiest to follow. Ill let u know how I do with the repairs. Again thanks the world is a better place with people like you offering to share the knowledge they have.
Sonia–Big Mama

By: jalal

jalal — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:40:04 +0000

Thanks man!
it really helps me a lot!
with out the pictures i would never be able to open mij Sony Vaio

regards,

Jalal

By: NL

NL — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:56:29 +0000

Thanks for the insrtructions. Forst my battery failed, than in short order the laptop started overheating, now I have an NVIDIA failure, and the machine wont even finish booting most of the times.
Is it worthwile for me to open it, clean the fans and replace the battery, or is it likely that my graphic chip and or even the disk or mb is damaged?
Thanks!

By: Laptop Tech

Laptop Tech — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 21:11:00 +0000

@ Daniel,

first i had trouble with my graphics card which i sent my computer to Sony to try and fix it, then when i got few days later i realize that my laptop started over heating and turning of, im guessing its from the fan ?

Listen for the cooling fan sounds. Does it spin at all? Maybe they forgot to connect the fan cable.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:30:03 +0000

hey i got the Sony vaio fz21m since i got it iv been having at lot of problems with it and its really annoying, hmm, first i had trouble with my graphics card which i sent my computer to Sony to try and fix it, then when i got few days later i realise that my laptop started over heating and turning of, im guessing its from the fan ?…or something …umm any one got any ideas how i can fix it, or what might be wrong with it ? ….and this is the last time im getting Sony, its is freaking shit , my sis got a cheap Toshiba laptop and it lasted more then my shitty Sony did, which is really is disappointing :/ …thanks.

By: Timothy Heup

Timothy Heup — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 21:52:20 +0000

Hi.

I just had the need to replace a keyboard and a display hinge on a four-year old Sony Vaio VGN-FZ320E laptop. I found the parts on ebay,and followed your instruitons to take the computer apart and make the replacement. Your instructions and photos were the reason I was successful. I didn’t think I had the ability to take apart & reassemble a laptop, but with your instructions and clear photos, I knew just what I needed to do. The laptop is good as new now.

Thank you for your instructions.

By: Lotfi

Lotfi — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 03:33:44 +0000

Hi
Very interesting.
I opened my Vaio FZ11Z the same way, but without taking apart the keyboard (only the gray part that is beneath the keyboard), step 11 is critical, in order to take off the dust between the propeller and the copper sinker.
After 4 years, the Vaio was overheating even with no high computation demand.
Now it is working back as new
I have photos I would like to share, please send me your email.
I will send you 2 photos that you should add to this webpage.

Best regards
Lotfi