topic freezing in PCs & Accessories

freezing

jith — Tue, 04 Jan 2005 03:45:11 GMT

my pcg k215z keeps on freezing all the time.....
i dont know why but it does suddently the fan works and everything but nothing else only the power light is on
then i have to hold the power button till it switches itself off and then switch on again......

Re: freezing

kee-lo_ — Tue, 04 Jan 2005 14:16:43 GMT

Cal;l VAIO Link and arrange a pickup

Re: freezing

feederfan — Tue, 04 Jan 2005 16:56:53 GMT

mine does this too! as far as i know there is no solution! if you send it off and it gets fixed, tell me what they do, tis taking the piss if u ask me, i havent got the time to send mine off, i need it every day!

Re: freezing

mattbees — Tue, 04 Jan 2005 17:33:28 GMT

This is exactly what heppens to mine also, the fan seems to rev up when it happens. REALLY annoying, I have to keep checking up on it to make sure its still responding. Sony wanted me to restore it to factory condition and then they would pick it up if it still happens but thats really inconvenient for me right now. Id also love to hear what they do if you do have it looked at. Hey, maybe if enough ppl complain they might do one of those recall things and give us top spec replacements and loadsa free sony gear to say sorry? Well it migh work, who knows......

Re: freezing

feederfan — Tue, 04 Jan 2005 19:33:03 GMT

Yeah, but i dont want to send it away! it would take too long to back up 60GB of my data anyway, even over firewire! There might be an easy solution, we just need to find someone who has sent theirs away so we know what sony did to fix it! Ive sent stuff away for repair before and it always, always takes at least 4 weeks to come back! i cant do without my vaio for that long!

Re: freezing

jith — Tue, 04 Jan 2005 20:15:02 GMT

damn thing happened again while i was reading this post....
i dont know ...cant send it off right now as im gettin massive work load maybe sometime next month i will do
come on all the other users do you also have same problem..
could be anything mine has been on all night last nite playing music but then after i started to use it this morning it has crased so many times i cant even keep track of it

Re: freezing

feederfan — Tue, 04 Jan 2005 20:47:24 GMT

There is a solution that i have found that does the job, if you leave windows media player open, playing a track on repeat, and leave ur laptop on mute it will keep it alive, as long as you are using the processor it doesnt seem to happen...wierd

Re: freezing

mattbees — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 00:49:05 GMT

could we set up some kinda poll thing where every 215z user can vote to say if their laptop freezes or not and then when sony notice that 100% of votes are "yes my k215z freezes all the damn time and makes me want to throw it at the wall" they might think "hmm, perhaps there is a problem with a few of our laptops and maybe we should take it a little bit more seriously and come up with something to put it right? after ive had my scones and watched emerdale of course..."

Re: freezing

kee-lo_ — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 15:23:00 GMT

There's no polls yet, but if people do have issues with this notebook, we urge you to post.

Re: freezing

LEE — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 16:38:31 GMT

Well chaps,

got my pcg k215z a little over 3 months ago and have had no problems, touch wood.

Re: freezing

feederfan — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 17:12:11 GMT

Its not just the 215z though, it seems to affect all the K series, there have been reports of the problem from your K215z, My K295HP and a K31 in the past

Re: freezing

mattbees — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 20:10:23 GMT

hmm that makes things a bit more annoying. All Ive used mine for so far is for accessing esupport and club vaio forums to complain about it!!

Re: freezing

feederfan — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 21:28:19 GMT

Yeah it is really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really irritating! lol

Re: freezing

TygerTyger — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 12:30:25 GMT

My K-series never froze yet. It might be heat related, mine runs quite cool.

At any rate, I only just sent mine to be repaired and it was actually quite quick, it only took 3 weeks to get back to me, and that was with New Years and Christmas holidays plus wait time for the parts they didn't have in stock. It's only 7-10 days usually. I know it's a long time if you need your computer (as I did) but while you have a warranty it's good a very good idea to get it sorted. They even fixed something I hadn't noticed was wrong.

Re: freezing

feederfan — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 14:32:38 GMT

It doesnt bother me that much really, It doesnt happen all the time, i think it is a heat issue 2 be honest, it never happens when I am running it on batteries at college, only when it is on my desk plugged in, When i run it with my desk light off, it barely ever happens, i think that is causing the extra heat. I cant afford to send it off for 2 weeks really, Its my Job aswell as everything else, and I believe u have to wipe everything off before u send it away, and theres no chance im doing that, its taken me ages to get it the way i want it!

Re: freezing

TygerTyger — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 14:35:40 GMT

no you dont have to wipe everything off.

Re: freezing

feederfan — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 14:49:27 GMT

I might consider it then, I am off to spain in a month for a week, so I could do it then maybe, I'll see if the problem gets worse! Its pretty bearable at the moment

Re: freezing

jith — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 05:24:03 GMT

feederfan

There is a solution that i have found that does the job, if you leave windows media player open, playing a track on repeat, and leave ur laptop on mute it will keep it alive, as long as you are using the processor it doesnt seem to happen...wierd

that is great,... well not great if u look at it properly..... mine has been on for whole 3 days without any shutting down....... i been running winamp on silent
this is really bad !!! y the hell is it not freezing when we using the processor continuously?????????

Re: freezing

bluemore — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:57:04 GMT

i had the same issues. went to all the "experts" and paid a lot of money for people to scratch their heads. It turned out to be a CPU issue even though the notebook was not even 18 months old and everyone said it could not be the CPU as it was booting and working before freezing. Replaced it and its fine.

Re: freezing

jammold — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 14:07:07 GMT

Mine seems to be OK, its a K115B. I did notice a few odd things but its so few and far between on this laptop its barely worth telling Sony about it.

I have never experienced the CPU problems on this system, maybe it is something to do with the Pentium processors as opposed to the Celeron processors... Just a thought...:smileywink: