http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/ Engadget Comments for Sony finally admits NVIDIA chips are borking its laptops, offers free repair http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/Aug 11th 2009 12:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/
What's up with NVIDIA? They hire one of the brainiest engineers from the best universities and grill them to death during their interviews. I believe they should present excellent results.]]>Aug 11th 2009 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/Aug 11th 2009 10:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/
It's time to REPLACE the cards!]]>Aug 11th 2009 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/sony now knowshow it feels to be on the receiving end.]]>Aug 11th 2009 12:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/Aug 11th 2009 12:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/Aug 11th 2009 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/Aug 11th 2009 12:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/Aug 11th 2009 12:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/
I always knew there was a reason I liked ATI.]]>Aug 11th 2009 12:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/Aug 11th 2009 1:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/Aug 11th 2009 1:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/Aug 11th 2009 2:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/Aug 11th 2009 12:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/Aug 11th 2009 12:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/Aug 11th 2009 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/Aug 11th 2009 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/Aug 11th 2009 12:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/Aug 11th 2009 12:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/Aug 11th 2009 2:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/Just take a look at the hunders of posts on the HP forums regarding this issue.
http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447626+1250009403219+28353475&threadId=1245319

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1268501]]>Aug 11th 2009 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/hplies.com

I'm one of them :(]]>Aug 12th 2009 6:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/Aug 11th 2009 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/Aug 11th 2009 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/Aug 11th 2009 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/My wifes lappie has been sitting unused for sometime now.
Sony wanted to charge us for the repair, glad we didn't give in.]]>Aug 11th 2009 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/Aug 11th 2009 1:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/
Now how often do you see Vaio users doing the same thing? Hardly, if ever.]]>Aug 11th 2009 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/Aug 11th 2009 2:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/Aug 11th 2009 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/Aug 11th 2009 7:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/Aug 11th 2009 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/there were defect and reapairs the were easily over 60% of units.
Can you imagine the fallout from that?
At least with the Xbox 360s, you had software to offset the repairs a bit.]]>Aug 11th 2009 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/
Seriously, a company admitted to creating faulty hardware without issuing a recall, and individual computer suppliers denied everything to the last minute. What the HELL.

There are still a number of them that haven't come forward on this. I don't think it's too late.]]>Aug 11th 2009 3:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/
My friend has 2 affected nvidia laptops and HP refuses to repair them despite numerous calls to their support lines. ]]>Aug 11th 2009 3:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/
Awful customer service. ]]>Aug 11th 2009 3:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/Then HP started a recall 1 month later.
Thank you HP and thank you Nvidia.]]>Aug 11th 2009 6:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/
I have an AR sitting in my closet in it's box because the NVidia graphics card went. I have a Dell with a ATI card as my main PC. No problems, goes to show how smart i am now.

I plan to get the Sony fixed now, I have someone who can use it.

Thanks for the info Engadget!]]>Aug 11th 2009 4:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/Aug 11th 2009 4:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/
Now, the scary part of all this is that the Inquirer got the story right and early. But I guess a broken clock is right twice a day.]]>Aug 11th 2009 9:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/Aug 16th 2009 2:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/Aug 11th 2009 10:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/Aug 12th 2009 10:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/Aug 12th 2009 6:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/Aug 12th 2009 9:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/cheers]]>Aug 12th 2009 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/where did sony issue this story?]]>Aug 14th 2009 7:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://esupport.sony.com/perl/news-item.pl?template=EN&news_id=349 (For us US folks) with the number to call. I spoke to the technician and he got me on my way to dispatching a repair. The following afternoon I received a call from a tech. in Tier 2 Support and the man explained to me that my particular model (AR-620E) did not fall under the umbrella to be fixed (Yet it's exhibiting the symptoms noted, and has a NVIDIA 8400M GT chipset, last I check, that was the affected one?) However, the tech. spoke to his marketing manager (Paul Newman, does that name ring a bell for anyone?) and the manager OK'd my repair to still be fixed for free.

Today (Friday, Aug. 14th) I received my box from FedEx, packed up the compu with the work order paperwork, as well as copies of my receipt and also a copy of the hardware listed in my computer, highlighting the Graphics Card contained within. Box went out a few hours later, with a delivery date of Monday. Will keep posted, I'm praying this goes painlessly and I really do not have to pay, or worse the send it back unfixed because when I turned it on before packing up, it decided to go back to normal...however, it's been in my closet since December '08. (which was when the green and pink lines started appearing.) We'll see. I'll fight this tooth and nail if I have to.]]>Aug 14th 2009 9:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/I will try contacting Sony with my dead nVidia 8400M GS SZ780 laptop. SZ models are NOT included on the extended warranty list, either. t will be a shame for Sony if they do not fix my laptop that I paid roughly twice more than the covered AR or FZ models.]]>Aug 15th 2009 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/

MAD]]>Oct 11th 2009 7:22AM