The area above and below the HD gets warm after using the Vaio for a while. I canno t hear if the cooling fan comes on. Is it normal to feel heat in this area?

I havn’t noticed but I’ll monitor it and let you know.

Yup, that area below that hard drive does get somewhat hot. My fan is working fine as I can feel hot air coming out.

“The heat is quite intense, and the fan is working, but very quietly”
That’s the reply I got from sony.

[quote author=“louis”]“The heat is quite intense, and the fan is working, but very quietly”
That’s the reply I got from sony.

That’s basically right. After leaving my TR on in a neoprene bag one day, I overheated it to the point where I actually heard the fan. What everyone is describing sounds normal.

The fan is so quiet it’s hard to tell it’s working.  The only clue is the warm air coming out the left side. It comes in handy on these cold winter days.

I usually use a cooler and when I do internal fan doesn’t seem to run at all because I can’t feel air pushing out the vent.  In fact, what little air there is coming out is actually cold.

I don’t use the cooler because it “makes me feel good”.  I use it because it reduces the internal temp of the laptop vs. just the internal fan and that’s a good thing.

I have proven this using hard drive monitoring software that showed between 6 and 10 degrees of temp drop when using the cooler.