| # | Name | Comments |
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| 1 | Oskar Bull-Hansen | Read here for further information: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=268277 |
| 2 | Gary Shell |
| 3 | Anonymous | |
| 4 | Stephanie Lin | |
| 5 | Tyler Nofziger |
| 6 | Mikael Persson | My video card broke down one month after the warranty expired.
Sony is showing no interest in fixing it.
Never Sony again! |
| 7 | Anonymous | |
| 8 | Leon Wolfe |
| 9 | Anonymous | Just gone down running on MB chip only |
| 10 | james | vgn fz190
green lines startup etc |
| 11 | Anonymous |
| 12 | Alastair Hadden | I bought a VAIO FZ11L just over a year ago and it now shows graphical artifacting on boot and refuses to start the OS except in safe mode. |
| 13 | yikhung |
| 14 | Andreas Koumpatis | Crap crap crap. |
| 15 | Hiep Nguyen | I want Sony to cover my laptop, not if but WHEN my GPU craps out. Take some accountability for God sake! |
| 16 | david Mendini | FZ 190 E with of course the wonderful option on sony site to customize with NVIDIA 8400 M GT instead of ATI and result a defective card, the green lines which now even appear after disabling video card. Laptop is super hot the end. Still waiting for either Sony or nvidia to face up and now living in europe after having bought computer in US via sony site... |
| 17 | Larry |
| 18 | Janesh Lakhoo |
| 19 | Josh Brink | |
| 20 | Anonymous | SONY vaio fz180e - lines, black screen. now only starts in safe mode |
| 21 | Reza akhavan | its a shame! |
| 22 | Ben James | I have this issue. Sadly this is the second issue I have had with Sony over defective laptops and their refusal to acknowledge the issue. |
| 23 | Anonymous | Had a Sony FZ180e for a year and a month when it died and gave me green stripes and the works. Naturally the warranty has expired. Pics here:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=268277&page=24 |
| 24 | Joan Ramon Badia | |
| 25 | Eduardo Sprana Gonçalves de Castro | |
| 26 | Eric | A little over a year after I bought my VAIO, my computer started freezing and shutting down–then the white stripes and pixelation appeared all over my screen. I had to disable my NVIDIA driver in safe mode and start using Microsoft’s Standard VGA Graphics Adapter, just so I could use my computer again. Trying to reinstall any NVIDIA driver crashes my computer and won’t allow it to restart. |
| 27 | Jonas Nygaard | I own a FZ21-M, bought i sweden. warranty expired one month ago.
This is not acceptable sony. |
| 28 | Anonymous | |
| 29 | Phillip Hemmings | My vaio (FZ-180M) died 6 weeks, 2 days out of warrenty. Sony wanted £200 to pick it up and up to £700 for the repair. Fortunatly I had a secondary warrenty. |
| 30 | Anonymous | |
| 31 | Michael Onofre | I have been having problems with my video cards for a long time. I bought a sony vaio SZ340p. I purchased a sony because i heard there products were fairly reliable and good. After having this Sony Vaio for year and half I wish I never bought it. The machine has been nothing but trouble. It is a complete piece of trash. |
| 32 | Toby Darwin | |
| 33 | Rob | My vaio has also encountered the same issues as mentioned in teh notebook review page. System shutting down, green lines on the screen etc. have not even tried Sony after hearing that they are not taking this seriously. I will ring them though, no use just sitting on the bench on this one. Time to takle the big companies Nvidia & Sony |
| 34 | Michael Roberts |
| 35 | Michael Roberts | In addendum to my post which seems to have gotten cut off...
Same problems as everyone else. Couple months after my warranty ran out, my computer froze one day. Shut down my computer, turned it back on and the Vaio boot screen had green vertical lines all over it, and the lines turned yellow during the Windows Progress Bar screen, and were in a pattern like this: ....::.....::.....::....::....::.... all the way across the screen. At that point, the progress bar would go away is if it were about to boot up windows, but it just stayed on a blank, black screen with the yellow vertical ...::... pattern. |
| 36 | Anonymous | Sony Vaio FZ18, failed within one year. The computer is completely dead. Going to get serviced. |
| 37 | Anonymous | Fuck sony |
| 38 | Anonymous | vaio fz-21m
idle temp 60-65-C
8400m gt 90 C
this is not working as it should |
| 39 | Quynhdao Dang | My Sony Vaio fz-180e has failed twice, 1st was due to a bad motherboard and the 2nd due to the video card, Very disappointed w/Sony |
| 40 | Anonymous | I have owned my VAIO FZ-180E for 14 months. It began malfunctioning with random shut downs and blue screen errors. Eventually, after rebooting, the logo screen was filled with vertical green lines. The next screen displayed a pattern of white artifacts. Windows now fails to boot, and the Vaio displays only a blank, black screen. All efforts at restoration have been unsuccessful. |
| 41 | `James Stapleton | My FZ18E which is 16 mths old has developed a GPU Failure (8400M GT).
Sony have not being of any help and are not aware off the problem. Yeah...
I will never buy or recommend to anyone a Sony Product.... |
| 42 | Vanche | With a year and 3 months past the purchase date the screen goes blank on one fine day and I did a complete system restore which is neither helpful and the system is booting only in safe mode or when the display device is disabled. I am getting verical stripes all over the screen. |
| 43 | Edward Millen | VAIO SZ61WN, NVIDIA 8400M GS graphics went faulty one month after warranty expired, lines and strange characters on the screen at every boot attempt and it never finishes booting |
| 44 | Paul Mick | My Sony Vaio VGN-FZ11Z GPU failed after sixteen months – just four months out of warranty. I had noticed from day one that the machine got extremely hot on the lower left side of the keypad, and due to my inexperience thought that it was just an annoying feature of an otherwise fine laptop. I used to joke that you couldn’t call the damn thing a laptop since it got far too hot to sit on your lap! I’m not joking now - at the moment (as it’s now out of warranty) I’ve got it booked in at my local repair shop in the hope that they may be able to help. I’m furious – Sony sort yourselves out! - I may well never buy another Sony product again if this is the level of support we can expect. |
| 45 | Anonymous | |
| 46 | RJ |
| 47 | RJ |
| 48 | Brady Simmons | Seriously Sony, you could use some good PR right now. Do the right thing. |
| 49 | Andrea Buzzigoli | |
| 50 | Anonymous | I posted at http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=4449546&posted=1#post4449546 as
My daughter’s SONY VGN-FZ190 CTO had the exact same graphics problem as described in Post #650. I can not even read the BIO manual clearly. It was bought at SonyStyle on 07/16/2007 at a price of $1653.99 plus Tax. I realized Apple, HP, and Dell have extended one more year warranty due to the NVIDIA 8400M and 8600M problems, while SONY denies the issues even with the fact that many of their laptops have the same problems. At a cost of more than $600 to replace a SONY motherboard that might last one year with the same NIDIA chip, I decided to buy a new HP (with 9xxxM NVIDIA) for my daughter since I know at least HP will help their customers if the same problems occur and the laptop can be used at least two years. |