SONY VAIO VGC JS1E All in one PC I won on eBay For just £2.77! A Restoration Video
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- With my winning bid of only £2.77 I am skeptical if this will even work at.
Watch with me and we will find out.
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I've got a Japanese model JS that came with a miserable Pentium dual-core. I originally did a Socket 775-to-771 modification and installed a low-power Xeon that took me from 2.2GHz to 2.6GHz, front side bus from 800MHz to 1333MHz and two additional cores; the TDP on the new CPU is so low that the fans never spin up and CPU temperature never exceeds 63C when stress tested. I later bought an American unit because its motherboard has the NVIDIA GPU on it; its case is trash so I will swap the board over to my nicer Japanese shell. The original keyboard and mouse are wired, not wireless, or at least mine are, and the wires are very thin so they can be managed with the rubber hooks on the back of the shell. The keyboard you have there looks similar enough to the original, it just lacks the silver paint job and dedicated Sony buttons and media controls. I adore mine and use it with Japanese Windows XP and 7 (dual boot) to play Japanese games (font rendering is often very broken in some older titles, even if you do all the 'correct' regional settings and compatibility shims). My Japanese system came with the original Windows Vista installation and I was able to create recovery media for it, but again, it's Japanese and it's Vista. I don't think the system has a brightness control at all.
Interesting modification. Thanks for the information. Strange how there is still no Brightness control with the original software.
@@RetroGadgetMan "Brightness Control" ... YES ! I also looked for that and haven't found any solution for that. Even Linux isn't able to access the brightness. As you mentioned, the BIOS is ludicrously handycapped and the the button controls as well. As I mentioned in my post here, these gadgets are highly focused on "ordinary" consumers; throwing such high tech stuff on the trash or putting it on 2nd hand sale. This might be the reason for low prices because these things are hard to manage and to be upgraded for contemporary usage.
Windows 10 is an interesting choice. I would be highly motivated to find a way to force install the older driver, to get that brightness control working. I really like your black and white insert shots.
Thanks. It was either windows 10 or Ubuntu.
@@RetroGadgetManIm having trouble getting Linux on my VAIO. Are you having the same issue?
@@lumactrl I never installed Linux. I only installed win 10 so far.
I just found one of these in the junk section for ¥1,100. I enjoyed your video. I'm still learning but hopefully I can do what you did and get this running again.
I think this will be a fun fix. Mine unfortunately is really dusty inside so we will see
Good price. The fans on the vaios are unreliable, a good clean out will help.
@@RetroGadgetMan I'm excited to clean it. I think mine doesn't have a hard drive either so I need to figure all that out as well.
@dedbattery it's a nice project.
Great video
Which Windows 10 version build version do you have installed on it? I have had the experience that the old Vaios up to version 1903 (19h1) run well and you could also change the brightness, with the newer versions of Windows 10 on some old vaio devices there are problems with the brightness control.
Interesting. I can't remember which version. Would have been the latest one back when I made the video. Pc is in storage now. Thanks for the information. I will have to remove that for next time.
I have the same e pc which I bought from Japan. Do you think it is possible to change an ssd hard drive instead of the original one will make it faster?
If this has the factory installed mechanical drive then it would be worth upgrading to an SSD. You will see a slight improvement on booting up and running some software. SSD are cheap enough now to give it a shot.
Hola, yo tengo este ordenador.
Es posible instalar una ssd? Puedo incrementar la memoria ram hasta 8gb o es necesario que sea 64bits? Gracias
hi I don't see why it would not work with an SSD. As for the ram you would have to try it and see.
The fan won't come on in mine but I can't find the fan anywhere!!
I have had the same problem with another all in one Vaio. Have you searched for the fans part number on ebay. I am still awaiting for one to turn up.
Hello , I found an similar model to that one (VGC-JS210J) and I was wondering if the CPU is upgradable as I want to restore this Sony AIO as well since most forums online don't have any form of way to tell me that if its upgradable or not and if it is what CPU's are supported?
Hi I don't know the answer to the that. Never tried upgrading a Vaio yet. I have heard that people have done it with certain models.
@@RetroGadgetMan presumably a high risk, because SONY products are highly crippled for any flexible upgrade.
Hello.. need help. I have a Sony all in one and it doesn't come on . I have tried disconnecting the mouse and keyboard and holding down the switch for 20 seconds from the instructions I found on the internet. Do you think that I will need a new motherboard or a new switch?
Hi does it have a separate power supply like the model in this video. "19.5v" or is it a power cord. If it's a separate power supply it could be faulty. Some of them have a green led light. If you listen closely you can hear them humming whilst powered up. If it's clicking or doing nothing at all then it's more than likely a faulty power supply. Testing it on another Sony Vaio will verify this or use a multimeter to test its output.
@@RetroGadgetMan Thanks so much for getting back with me. There's no noise coming from the power cord. What's my next option?
If you don't have another Vaio to test it on then maybe take the power supply to a computer shop and ask if they can test it for you.
@@RetroGadgetMan Will do.. Will let you know how things work out. Have a wonderful day!!!
One more question.. I went to Amazon to try and order the power cord..not expensive but none of the suppliers have this series VGP-AC19V15. They skip over this one. Is there another cord that I can use?
Onde consigo peça pra esse pc??
Try eBay
Is it possible to upgrade the ram on this?
Not sure. I guess it depends on the architecture of the cpu etc and if the OS would see it.
Hello do you know how you access the bios on the pcg-2a2m model? Thanks
You would need some software. I am not sure which.
@@RetroGadgetMan ok thanks for the reply
ok