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These instructions will guide you through taking apart your Sony Vaio laptop.
UPDATE: the page I was linking to is gone. Here’s another source for Sony Vaio manuals and here’s one more source.
You can use these instructions for:
1. Removing and replacing the laptop keyboard
You can find brand new Sony keyboards at SparePartsWarehouse. I purchased a few Sony keyboards from them and was very pleased with the provided service.
2. Removing, replacing or just cleaning the cooling module – heatsing and fans
If you laptop runs hot and overheats, it might be not necessary taking it apart. You can clean the cooling module with compressed air without taking it apart. Buy a can of compressed air in any local computer store and spray it inside the cooling module through the holes on the bottom of the laptop. It should take care of the overheating problem.
3. Removing and replacing the CPU
Be very careful with the CPU pins, they are fragile. After you replace the processor, do not forget to lock the socket or your laptop will not start up after you assemble it back.
I’m not sure 100% but I think the above mentioned disassembly guide will work for the following Sony laptops:
PCG-K12FP, PCG-K12P, PCG-K13, PCG-K13F, PCG-K13Q, PCG-K14, PCG-K15, PCG-K15F, PCG-K17, PCG-K20P, PCG-K23, PCG-K23F, PCG-K23Q, PCG-K24FP, PCG-K25, PCG-K25F, PCG-K27, VGN-K20P
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November 7th, 2007 at 11:10 am
I need instructions on how to access the cooling fan and heatsink on a vaio pcg-frv26 also called pcg-9J5L on a sticker on the back of my laptop. Could someone please, please, please send me a link to the disassembly instructions? I can’t find them for the frv series ANYWHERE!!! Been looking for a while, it’s what led me to this site. Please? Would like to clean out all the dust cause its overheating and the fans making A LOT of noise and it’s 4 years old. Thanks in advance.
November 7th, 2007 at 11:17 am
Sali,
Have you tried removing dust with compressed air without taking it apart? You can find an air compressor and blow air inside the intakes on the bottom of the laptop until the dust stop coming through the grill on the side, then switch the direction and blow air inside the grill on the side.
I think you can find air compressor in an auto shop. Maybe for a small fee you can use it to clean the laptop. It’ll take not more then 1 minute.
January 3rd, 2009 at 4:17 am
Please email or post a link to the instructions for disassembly. The link above is wrong. Thanks!
January 3rd, 2009 at 10:31 am
Cal,
Thank you for your comment. I guess they removed the page with instructions. I linked to another page with many different manuals for Sony laptops.
You’ll find the link in the post.
January 21st, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Did take a FRV apart and after cleaning the inside, it did not power on.
Took a good look for those loose connections and stuff out of place, but could not find any.
While I was looking at the CPU socket after a lot of head scratching, noticed the socket was in the locked postion, so unlocked it put in the CPU and locked the socket, put it back together and it worked!
* Also make sure that you have some thermal paste to apply on top of the CPU before placing the heatsink, if not the CPU tends to operate at a higher temp that usual.
*** What seems to happen is that when you remove the heatsink the CPU tends to comeout with it, even though the socket is locked, so when you put the CPU like said above, you have to unlock and lock it with some thing like a flat headed screw driver.
Re: a manual for the FRV search the net with the terms Vaio FRV service manual.
January 21st, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Thanks catchins for your comment:
I’ve said it many times before and I’ll repeat. Always reseat the CPU after removing the heat sink. The CPU is “glued” to the heat sink by thermal grease. When you remove the heat sink, you can pull the CPU from the socket and it will not make good connection with the motherboard.
October 18th, 2009 at 12:32 am
i own a sony vaio laptop pcg-frv31.i have 2 problems that need addressing.1:my cd burner tray is broke in a way that after bien droped the shield broke off and no longer stays shut .I need to replace for a full functioning one and what is the scale on how difficult to change is.2:out of the blue my sound went out ive had my comp refurbished a few times more after that and would load the proper driver for this and still no sound.i want to just put in a new sound card .i want to know how difficult that is or maybe you know of another way to see whats wrong with my sound. thank you all so much
lance
October 26th, 2009 at 11:44 am
Your own page
http://www.insidemylaptop.com/disassemble-sony-vaio-pcg-k-notebook/
is excellent for this, You should link to it from your page
http://www.insidemylaptop.com/taking-apart-cleaning-sony-vaio-laptop/