topic Sony Vaio Z NVIDA driver crashes in PCs & Accessories

Sony Vaio Z NVIDIA driver crashes

HHN-19 — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 10:40:35 GMT

VPCZ12Z9E

Frequently crashes with the BCCode 117.

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Sony Vaio Z NVIDA driver crashes

stephanius — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 16:44:45 GMT

Some questions:

Which exact model do you have? There are five generations of VGN-Z and three generations of VPCZ Series models, some of which have different chipsets.
Which driver version and source (originally installed, an official update or some in-official source) are you using?
Which operating system are you using? Preinstalled or your own?

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Sony Vaio Z NVIDIA driver crashes

HHN-19 — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:31:46 GMT

1) VPCZ12Z9E purchased august 2010

Default System BIOS

i7 CPU M620

8GB RAM

LCD 1920x1080

2) NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M, driver version: 8.16.11.8880 (orginally installed)

3) Windows 7 (64bit) SP 1

Factory software reloaded by Sony in may 2011

Sony Vaio Z NVIDIA driver crashes

Blencogo — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 21:58:34 GMT

At your own risk, you may wish to try the nVidia driver supplied with the VPC-Z13Z9E/X which has the same GPU as your VPC-Z12Z9E/X.

The Z13 has Version 8.16.11.9024 and may be worth a try? It should be installed in SPEED Mode and the download will need to be Extracted to show the Setup.exe.

http://support.vaio.sony.eu/computing/vaio/downloads/info/info.aspx?l=en_GB&url=VAIO/Original/NVIDIA_Graphics_Driver_8.16.11.9024_x64.zip&m=VPCZ13Z9E_X&ip=NVIDIA_Graphics_Driver_8.16.11.9024.htm

Sony Vaio Z NVIDIA driver crashes

HHN-19 — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:13:17 GMT

Sony support do not applaud the VPCZ13 driver.

They recomend to have the computer sendt back, for a full reload of factory software.

The first reload was in May and make no change, the driver still crashes.