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Advice and help re recent purchase of K315M

aray420608045 — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 11:03:39 GMT

I have recently purchased a 2nd user Vaio laptop (K315M) and recovered the machine using the appropriate recovery software. I was wondering if anyone can help shed some light on the following:

Instead of the default 20GB I have made the C; drive 15 GB will this be sufficient?

Also when you recovery everything including the applications it takes over 7GB this seems an awful lot is it possible to recovery only the applications you require? Or do you then have to remove all those you don¿t want?

For example it comes with MS-works but I want to remove this and place MS office on instead

Also Norton is loaded by default, I assume this is not free? Therefore is it difficult to remove.

Finally though it is a 3.0GHZ processor on a relatively empty machine does any one find this slow?

Thanks John.

Re: Advice and help re recent purchase of K315M

seb21__ — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 11:46:25 GMT

Hi jd, welcome to the club.

Use this Link :

http://www.xgsystems.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6

With this, you can make a own setup CD without any software. (only WinXP is on this CD) Yep, one CD-R is totally enough for WinXP.

HTH

Re: Advice and help re recent purchase of K315M

aray420608045 — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 13:35:37 GMT

Hi jd, welcome to the club.

Use this Link :

http://www.xgsystems.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6

With this, you can make a own setup CD without any software. (only WinXP is on this CD) Yep, one CD-R is totally enough for WinXP.

HTH

Thanks Seb21 any thoughts on the other questions re speed, Norton etc ? JD

Re: Advice and help re recent purchase of K315M

seb21__ — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 14:02:00 GMT

Norton? No it burns only WinXP on the CD.

But, you need after the installation the Driver and the Util packeg. You must download it from the VAIO-Link.

http://www.vaio-link.com/downloads/select/select.asp?l=en&m=1751

But what is this for a s*** : 5,6GB reserved for recovery space

And I have noticed that I can't install software from my Recovery DVD!

Re: Advice and help re recent purchase of K315M

rich912 — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 14:07:05 GMT

There is section in your software manual that covers changing or removing software.

Manual.

I seem to remember, from a previous thread, that removing Norton completely is a little bit trickier than they suggest. I will see whether I can find that particular thread.

Re: Advice and help re recent purchase of K315M

aray420608045 — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 15:48:01 GMT

Thanks Rich912 much appreciate it if you can find the Norton removal thread. Also do you think 15GB is enough for the C drive and do you find your machine rather slow???

Cheers Jd76

Re: Advice and help re recent purchase of K315M

rich912 — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 16:04:40 GMT

This is the thread that I refered to.

Also do you think 15GB is enough for the C drive

That really depends on the number and size of programmes that you intend to install. My C drive is 12GB, which is barely adequate. Make sure that you store your multi media/graphics files on a separate partition.

As for the speed issue, I am afraid that I do not have this model so have no idea, but the amount of RAM can make a huge difference to performance.

I hope this helps.

Re: Advice and help re recent purchase of K315M

kee-lo_ — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 16:24:18 GMT

Hi John

I suggest 20GB for C:
Use 😧 to store files and just leave C as a programs and OS partition.

As for Norton and Works, 'fraid you have to uninstall them, Sony are not very flexible like that.

Re: Advice and help re recent purchase of K315M

aray420608045 — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 10:42:48 GMT

Thanks for all your help lol' I don't have a problem with Sony supplying you with various programs but they should have provided an option to remove all these cleanly and also when recovering the HD they should have provided an option to selectively restore.

I have seen from other posts that it may be possible that my machine is slow because of speedstep, I don't really know what this is and how to determine if I have it activated or not. Also the fan is quite noisy do you know of anyway to quieten it down? finally I hope how do you get into the BIOS on a sony laptop. normally it's an fn key at bootup can you tell me which one.

Thanks again JD76

Re: Advice and help re recent purchase of K315M

rich912 — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 11:13:58 GMT

I don't know a great deal about speedstep, but this should help you.

To enter the BIOS press F2 at startup.

Re: Advice and help re recent purchase of K315M

kee-lo_ — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 12:30:34 GMT

John,

In control panel > power there are settings for fans, and other important power settings and CPU performance tweaks.

Re: Advice and help re recent purchase of K315M

aray420608045 — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:15:08 GMT

Thanks K-lo and Rich you guys are on the ball..I'll check out and get back to you. I realise this is probably off topic but being new to the forum the notebook forum has over 500 pages I have looked at the first 100. Is there anyway to reenter the thread at say page 101?

JD

Re: Advice and help re recent purchase of K315M

rich912 — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:41:51 GMT

Is there anyway to reenter the thread at say page 101?

John,

Yes, by changing the number at the end of the `url¿ (in your browser address window).
For example, changing the 6 to 1500 will take you to page 101. This may vary with the number of threads that you have chosen to view per page so experiment.

Re: Advice and help re recent purchase of K315M

aray420608045 — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:15:44 GMT

do you mean the offset=xx number? tried this but it does not seem to do anything? I was hoping that you could see the page you are at easily. Maybe its a function that could be added to the search engine in the forum? JD

Re: Advice and help re recent purchase of K315M

rich912 — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:17:38 GMT

You need to hit the 'Enter' button after changing the number. It does work, I assure you.

Re: Advice and help re recent purchase of K315M

kee-lo_ — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 20:34:53 GMT

Yes, it's the offset
There's also the search which is at the top of the page and convienantly in my signiture.

Re: Advice and help re recent purchase of K315M

aray420608045 — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 18:08:19 GMT

Thanks Kee-lo and others finally hopefully!!!!!

How do you print the whole post. i.e if a post is 3 pages in length can you print all 3 pages. As currently I can only seem to print whatever pages I have opened. JD76

Re: Advice and help re recent purchase of K315M

kee-lo_ — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 20:17:01 GMT

Click on the icon and then print, it should print the whole thing for you.

Edit: erm, ignore me, I thought that would work but the logic of this site doesn't allow the printing of a tread, just a post (!!)

Re: Advice and help re recent purchase of K315M

TygerTyger — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 22:56:24 GMT

Actually it does, click on 'Printable Version' at the bottom of the page. It still only does it in pages, but if you go into your profile theres an option for how many posts you want to view per page. Set it to the max and you should be set.

Re: Advice and help re recent purchase of K315M

aray420608045 — Sun, 13 Mar 2005 11:28:00 GMT

Thank Tyger-T much appreciated. Prints great, I think I am getting the hang of this forum. Thanks to all contributors. JD