Sony Vaio VGN SR SR190 dissassembly

We've been having a lot of heat here in socal. Finally my computer said to the "hell with this!" and shut itself down. I decided to take it apart to apply some artic silver 5 thermal compound to improve the cooling performance of the computer. When I pulled the heat sink off the CPU, it came off very easily and the thermal compound had solidified. The heat sink on the GPU was much more difficult to remove. This leads me to believe that the thermal compound on my CPU had failed. Anyways, long story short, put the computer back together without connecting the cooling fan. Once the computer shut down again, I realized what I had done. Now this is the second dissassembly, so it went much faster than the first.

Before one of you technology illiterates yell, buy a Mac, they suffer the same issues as well: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=132442

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[davidSYcho]

im thinking of getting a used vgn-sr190.

would you remcommend it?

any problems that you have occured with it?

thanks!

[unrealii]

@davidSYcho besides replacing the thermal paste, this computer is rock solid. I had also upgraded the hard drive an ram shortly after buying it so I cannot speak to the reliability of the hard drive. Those should be replaced every 2-3 years as a proactive measure.

[simplelifedream]

you are amazing, thanks for sharing, what's your comment on the built of this laptop? solid? well designed?

[unrealii]

@simplelifedream This laptop seems pretty solid. I came from an HP which felt like the entire thing was flexing when I would pick it up by one corner.

[tiraktor]

Hey could you just show how to remove the keyboard? I looked for it quite long but could not find a video showing a keyboard disassembly... thanks

[unrealii]

Since the bottom cover comes off, I would assume you would need to remove the motherboard before you would be able to reach the keyboard.

[retarddakota]

Why don't they make laptops "open-friendly"? I don't want to waste over 100 bucks only to get the dust removed. Thanks for the video! Hope my sr59 opens the same.

[Scalpel78]

dude what have you actually disassembled? You havent even taken the motherboard out you silly indian!

[7PteeN]

goood

[LaMdies3L]

dude do you know where I can a new serial ATA connector for my SR? my SR crashed a week ago and it won't recognize any HDD unless I constantly apply force to the hard drive (squeezing the HDD into the laptop) or even weirder I'll hold the vaio itself vertically, and let the HDD sit upright in my hand (while it's connected; think of an "L" shaped situation). I'm no computer tech whatsoever, do u have any idea what might be wrong with my SR?

[LaMdies3L]

dude do you know where I can a new serial ATA connector for my SR? my SR crashed a week ago and it won't recognize any HDD unless I constantly apply force to the hard drive (squeezing the HDD into the laptop) or even weirder I'll hold the vaio itself vertically, and let the HDD sit upright in my hand (while it's connected; think of an "L" shaped situation). I'm no computer tech whatsoever, do u have any idea what might be wrong with my SR?

[azntranc3951]

Thank you for sharing ! Although my laptop is from Sony but not the same version (VGN FW304), I can disassemble to clean out the heat sink and fan :)

[unrealii]

@gab09026 Yeah, the CMOS battery should be there. I made this video soo long ago that I do not remember seeing it or not seeing it.