I have a strange problem with my TR3Ap1, after overnight stay (in OFF position) its taking 10-15-20 minutes to load operating system, during the day its working just fine - rebooting in 30 seconds or less, longer PC staying in OFF state longer it would take to boot the machine (same thing using hibernate state). I restored original SONY backup - no change. When its booting up in 10-15 minutes HDD light stay orange and clicking. Its a brand new PC 4 weeks old.

Thx Mike.

My guess is that the hard drive is fucked. If it’s within the return policy of the store you bought it from, I’d exchange it. Otherwise, call Sony.

[quote author=“Anonymous”][quote author=“Anonymous”][quote author=“mikeny”]I have a strange problem with my TR3Ap1, after overnight stay (in OFF position) its taking 10-15-20 minutes to load operating system, during the day its working just fine - rebooting in 30 seconds or less, longer PC staying in OFF state longer it would take to boot the machine (same thing using hibernate state). I restored original SONY backup - no change. When its booting up in 10-15 minutes HDD light stay orange and clicking. Its a brand new PC 4 weeks old.

Thx Mike.

Mine does the same thing sometimes?  What should we do? Do you think we accidentally overheated the thing or something??

Same problem here it just started happening too!!

Mine does the same thing, its weird I even reset the thing a bunch of times. I like this laptop a lot too. This might be a reason to get that new Toshiba Tablet PC.

We use several of them at work…they are terrible, wait until the next version comes out.

Erik

We use several of them at work…they are terrible, wait until the next version comes out.

Erik

Why are they so terrible?
Your talking about the M205-S810 right?

Tablets in general are terrible. The handwriting recognition is just not where it should be. I’d say 75% accuracy is being nice…and this is spread out among several users, so it’s not just me.

IMO the tablets need to get lighter, bettery battery, and better functionality. The proof that these products don’t work as advertised is the severe drop in price and total lack of sales.

If you really want one, go use one, and for more then a few minutes. Ask them to remove it from the display and walk around a bit…

Erik

just to let you know, my Sony TR3 is not working the way it should be . I just came back to USA and repair return process so far very good I did received SONY prepaid OVERNIGHT box for my 4 months old TR(also box was sent OVERNIGHT to my house by Fedex). I will update this forum with all details on how SOny will resolve my problem. Also I just found out that my fathers in law 2 y.o. PCG-R505EL is dead and HDD needs to be changed. 370$ US delivered to my house for new HDD. I hate to say but SONY make a nice but very unreliable LAPTOPS ( 2 out of 2 in my family - I think its too much), all my TV sets and DVD systems so far is ok.

Mike.

sony doesn’t make harddrives.. what’s wrong with your tr?

If you read my first post on the same topic you will understand… it takes 5-10-15 minutes to load windows after laptop is off for > than 2-3 hours. It gives me messages such as ‘NO mountable volume’ on a blue screen every time I load windows, also HDD very slow it takes about 5-8 minutes to copy paste 1G of data from lets say from drive c to d. My older Pent3 700 PC 2-3 times faster in terms of transfer speed , I understnad that its only 4200rpm hdd but anyway it shouldnt be so slow. I used to have over TR3 from CCity and it was fast.

[quote author=“linc”]sony doesn’t make harddrives.. what’s wrong with your tr?

sorry.. i simply meant that normally toshiba or hitachi manufactures hdd for sony. its unfortunate that you have (2)too many bad experience with laptop failure that is hdd related. imo sony needs to honor its warranty for the faulty drive but its really the hdd manufacturers that are the ones making realiable products not sony.

i just brought in a friend’s computer to sony.

hopefully within the week i’ll get to talk to the technition about the problem.  i suspect it has to do with the power saving head parking feature of newer hard drives.  Don’t forget the 1.8” hd is still fairly new.  It’s not as well developed and tweeked as the 2.5” 

I’m going to recommend to sony that they need to fix the firmware or add a program that disables the power saving feature. 

The only fix i have for the clicking sound is the use of a program called silent drive. 

btw, the only 1.8” that i’ve heard of failing are the ones made by hitachi.  I still haven’t read a case on the 1.8” toshiba.  I’ll keep you guys posted on what i find out

cheers!!

In my case its 1.8” toshiba problem

[quote author=“jso902”]i just brought in a friend’s computer to sony.

hopefully within the week i’ll get to talk to the technition about the problem.  i suspect it has to do with the power saving head parking feature of newer hard drives.  Don’t forget the 1.8” hd is still fairly new.  It’s not as well developed and tweeked as the 2.5” 

I’m going to recommend to sony that they need to fix the firmware or add a program that disables the power saving feature. 

The only fix i have for the clicking sound is the use of a program called silent drive. 

btw, the only 1.8” that i’ve heard of failing are the ones made by hitachi.  I still haven’t read a case on the 1.8” toshiba.  I’ll keep you guys posted on what i find out

cheers!!

...After all, in 2 days I received my Laptop back . They did changed my old HDD, and my laptop is working again.

Thx Sony for Overnight service.

WOW! Two for two. jiggy got well taken care of and now mikeny gets very un-Sony-like service. That bad rap in PC Mag must have caused some heads to roll. :wink: