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VAIO was a brand of computers formerly made by Sony Corporation.

VAIO was a brand of portable and desktop computers made by Sony Corporation. Created in 1996 for Sony's re-entrance to the global computer market, the acronym originally stood for Video Audio Integrated Operation, but in 2008 was amended to Visual Audio Intelligent Organizer.

Some notable VAIO computers include the P series subnotebooks and the Z series high-end thin-and-light laptops.

As of February 2014, Sony has exited the PC business and no longer makes VAIO PCs.

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Brightness settings gone, how do I bring it back?

I have a VAIO CW laptop with Windows 7 x64, and after installing new NVIDIA drivers, my screen brightness controls are no longer available. (Not in the control center, not in the power options, buttons don't work even though VAIO's brightness adjust…
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Should I disconnect the power cable when the battery is full?

Possible Duplicate: Is it better to use laptop on battery or on AC power? I bought a new laptop (a Sony Vaio) and I am used to working on it while the power adapter is connected. Now that the battery is full on this new laptop... What is the…
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How to make my external hardisk appear as a usb flash drive?

I just bought a new Sony Vaio Laptop. Now I want to create a recovery/backup. There is an option of creating the recovery in a usb flash drive. But I only have an External hard disk. It does not detect this hard disk. in the help pane it says fixed…
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SpeedFan cannot find my fan

My laptop (SONY VAIO VGN-CR390) is getting hot recently and the fan doesn't seem to work at high speed. I installed SpeedFan and it reads my CPU temperature @60C+ consistently. However, it cannot find my fan, the FANS list is empty, so there's no…
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Why is the same graphics card slower in a faster machine?

I've got a really weird issue. I have two laptops, both Sony Vaio. The first is a VGN-SZ1HP with the following specs: Intel Core Duo T2300 2GB RAM GeForce Go 7400 (128MB) The second is a VGN-SZ3XP with the following specs: Intel Core Duo 2…
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Is disabling graphics driver and falling back to CPU for graphics processing a good solution?

I bought a Sony Vaio VGN-FZ50B notebook in Japan about 5 years ago. About a year ago I updated my operating system to windows 7, but I couldn't find a version of drivers for my graphics card for my laptop which would support windows 7. So I searched…
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How to disable the light sensor on a Vaio laptop

I just got a new Vaio laptop. It is great. However, the ambient light sensor dims the screen brightness and prevents me from changing it. Is there a way to disable the ambient light sensor and go back to manual screen brightness?
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How to fix a non-working laptop backlight?

The back-light which lights up my LCD monitor on my laptop stopped working. What are my options for repairing this problem? Currently, I can barely see the screen and have to use a flashlight to make out more of what's going on.
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Boot Sony VAIO SVS1511V9RB from CD or USB

I bought Sony VAIO SVS1511V9RB today and can't boot it from neither USB flash drive nor bootable CD. I've changed priority of boot drives to Internal CD-ROM, External devices, Internal Hard Disk, Network, and enabled external device boot. But after…
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Laptop BIOS clock resets on reboot?

I have a fairly new Sony Vaio laptop that had some power problems, and they put in a new motherboard yesterday. It fixed my old problems, but now the clock is acting weird. The BIOS clock gets reset whenever I restart the computer, and the Windows…
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Windows 8.1 asking for product key after recovery

My laptop was not starting. I understood that the battery had run out of charging as soon as I plugged in the charger and started my laptop. Meanwhile, for a second I had removed the plug again and plugged in to another socket which corrupted my…
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How can I get into BIOS in my Sony Vaio VPCEH25EN

I have a Sony Vaio, model VPCEH25EN with me. This is the reference (Sony Vaio VPCEH25EN). It came up with a window 7 pre-installed. I want to install Fedora along with that. For that I have tried to get into the BIOS of my machine. I did a long…
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Issue sony vaio : greater than (>) and less than (<) french keyboard

Originally my keyboard is QWERTY , and greater than (>) and less than (<) symbols work well, but when I switch my language from english to french ( AZERTY) . I don't know where is the location of those keys. I will be thankful for your…
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Sony Vaio Wireless not working?

I've a Sony Vaio E-series(VPCEG28FN) laptop and I'm using Windows-7. Yesterday, When I was running Netscout sniffer, the laptop went into Bluescreen for the first time saying- to prevent further damage of hardware... and got restarted. Then I saw…
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Why is my VAIO laptop suddenly going into a coma?

I have a Sony VAIO VPCCW27FX laptop. The History It works fine (Windows 7 x64; no driver issues of any kind; has latest BIOS), except with a slight glitch: Sometimes, it won't shut down/hibernate/standby properly. Instead, it goes into a…
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