Comments on: Taking apart and cleaning Sony Vaio laptop

By: Nelson B

Nelson B — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:44:32 +0000

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/

By: lance quillen

lance quillen — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 08:32:06 +0000

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

By: Laptop Tech

Laptop Tech — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:31:34 +0000

Thanks catchins for your comment:

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!

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.

By: catchins

catchins — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:25:39 +0000

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.

By: Laptop Tech

Laptop Tech — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:31:12 +0000

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.

By: Cal

Cal — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 12:17:51 +0000

Please email or post a link to the instructions for disassembly. The link above is wrong. Thanks!

By: Laptop Tech

Laptop Tech — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:17:38 +0000

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.

By: sali

sali — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:10:22 +0000

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.