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Question regarding unlocking the BIOS of a laptop

post #1 of 6
9/24/12 at 8:25am
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Hello there, first of all let me apologise if this forum is the wrong place for this question but I really am at my wits end with this problem and would love it if I could get some help!

I have a Sony Vaio laptop that suffers from the fan never running at a low RPM even when no programs are running - it's really loud and annoying. I would like to be able to control my fan speed manually using SpeedFan but I think the BIOS is restricted as I am not able to manually control the fan through SpeedFan - just view it.

If anyone knows of any way to get in to the full bios and sort this problem I would be really, really grateful.

Thanks,
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post #2 of 6
9/24/12 at 8:36am
Please list the model number of your laptop.
I would also suggest looking at the Sony WEB Site for your model and to contact their customer service.
It sounds like it may be a malfunction.

Pure guess is Software fan control is not allowed, you have to access BIOS. Should be in your manual or on line.

For my Samsung (bought used, had to reconfigure) the website was a difficult to figure out but eventually i understood it, and used information and downloads needed.
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post #3 of 6
9/24/12 at 8:39am
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The laptop model number is VPCEB4E1E

I've had it in for service once but they didn't fix it, just cleaned it :-/ and their website is absolutely useless too.

Thanks for the help!
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post #4 of 6
9/24/12 at 8:41am
You may want to give a bit of info other than its a Sony Vaio as i believe they made a couple more than 1 models of them rolleyes.gif

Once you have your model number, the best place to look would be a Sony Vaio specific forum or google "Sony Vaio XXX [insert model number] unlocked bios"
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The Mini Beast!
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The Laptop
(6 items)
  		 
CPUMotherboardGraphicsRAM
Core i5 3570k  ASRock Z77E-ITX Asus GTX 480 Samsung DDR3 1600MHz 
Hard DriveHard DriveCoolingOS
Seagate Barracuda 500GB Crucial M4 128GB Noctua NH-L12 Windows 7 Pro 64Bit  
MonitorKeyboardPowerCase
Dell U3011 Microsoft Generic in Black!  SILVERSTONE ST50F-P 500W Lian Li PC-Q25B 
Mouse
CM Sentinal 
View all
CPUGraphicsRAMHard Drive
Intel i7 2860QM AMD Radeon HD 6770M Corsair Vengence 1600MHz 750GB 7200rpm  
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Mac OS X 10.8 1680 x 1050 anti-glare high resolution  
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post #5 of 6
9/24/12 at 9:03am
Going to Sony I get Vaio VPCEB4EL1E, is this correct? (Sony Europe)

holding down F8 enters safe mode, F5 is recovery, F10 diagnostics program
you are correct, this is one confusing site.
You will have to log in and use live chat.
Edited by brasslad - 9/24/12 at 9:15am
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post #6 of 6
9/24/12 at 9:06am
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Going to Sony I get Vaio VPCEB4EL1E, is this correct?

http://www.sony.co.uk/support/en/product/vpceb4e1e_wi

this is my one. thank you!
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