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110defender

Hi,

This problem started with my screen 'freezing' and the HDD becoming inactive. This would happen after 30 minutes of use then reduced in time to seconds.

Now, when I press the on/power button, the fan turns, there is activity on the CD/DVD drive and the external FDD (if atached)and less than a second of HDD activity shown on the LED. The screen does not come on at all.

I have linked my HDD to my PC and there is no problem with that at all.

Power LEDs are iluminated with either the battery or mains power.

Any ideas?

Thank you.

YahtzeeLad

Mine died four months out of warranty. Sony charged me over £400 to replace the motherboard, and then it died again 13 months later with the same problem.

As I'd found out what the problem was via Google, I explained it to a local repairer who fixed it for less than £100.

Goddamn Sony scumbags; all my home entertainment equipment purchased over the years without exception was Sony and I swore I would never buy another Sony product.... until I saw the VGC-V2S.

They say there's one born every minute, and maybe that's what Sony are relying on, but it's an excellent machine (be nice if they bothered to update the graphics drivers though). I've had no real problems with it, the Sony 12 month guarantee runs out in 6 weeks, but John Lewis bunged another 12 months guarantee on top, so fingers crossed...

I can't understand why Sony treat their customers with such contempt with regards the GRX, which is such a great piece of kit, even 3 and a half years on.

Coffeejockey

Hi Guys N' Gals. I have been interested in what you have been saying about memory and startup problems. Although I have to err on the side of caution and agree that this could indeed be the correct diagnosis of the problem, I would like to draw your attention to the little know effects of over population of the memory slots.

Back in the good old bad old days, I thought more memory in the system was a good idea until I suffered the same symptoms as you have descibed. On trying to figure out the solution I came across the problem of maximum memory usage and the speed of the Front Side Bus.

To my bewilderment i I found motherboards could only cope with a certain amount of memory and had a max memory threshold which if exeeded caused similar problems as you have described. I hope I have'nt muddied the water by this entry but sometimes it can be a lot better with less memory.

Regards.

Del... $:o)

William

Thanks for making the suggestion.

I believe Sony indeed said the max mem for a GRX316MP was 512mb. However, the chipset used does support 1024Mb as proved by many here and at Vaio Village.

I was using 1024mb but my girlfriend's GRX never went above the Sony "approved" 512Mb (256Mb in each slot).

110defender

My problem is definately the memory slot problem (still working with bothched fix) and it wasn't down to over population of memory. I only have 256Mb.

AJ

kee-lo_

Yeah the problems stated here stopped me upgrading the RAM in the GRX316MP.

I hope one day Sony will come out with the truth

110defender

I've now put the memory in the other slot (without the paper wedge) and for the last 24 hours has been running fine. It must be just the one slot that has the fault.

AJ