sony vaio laptop heads and cylinders specs for bios its a 30 gb hard drive?
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agreed, if you are un-able to locate a setting in the BIOS to 'auto detect' your hard drive, then you need to speak, (or e-mail,) to Sony customer support.....
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With the exception of the Celeron processor, your computer's \nspecs appear to be pretty decent (ex. 80gb hard drive and 512 RAM). However, due to the bios password problem, I am thinking that you should aim for $200. Also, see if you find this site helpful: http://www.tech-faq.com/reset-bios-password.shtml. According to it, the original bios password should be "Toshiba", unless of course it was changed.
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Usually if you take the RAM out of the computer, there is a sticker on it that will list the specs of the RAM.\n\nIf you are not comfortable opening the case, you have a program called "MSINFO" on most computers.  Go to C:&#92;Windows&#92;msapps&#92;msinfo" and run the MSINFO program.  This will give you many stats about your computer, including the RAM speed and type.
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turn the laptop over and look on the back take a screw driver and undo the screws on the back (round the shaped cut outs \nunder one of these is your memory sticks \nbut as the first answer has suggested look in the manual \nthis will inform you where / type / and how much memory you can put in your system
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cpu, hard drives,memory
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ATA (IDE EIDE), SCSI, SATA\n\nThe link at wiki will give you more.
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I would say it should at least be 512Mb, but prefer 1Gb. And hard drive would be 120GB at least, and preferable 200GB
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If you still have the owner's manual, look it up there.  If not, go to the website of the manufacturer and find your model and look up the specs there.\n\nThe mainboard will require ram that has a specific bus speed [e.g., DDR 333 aka PC 2700], a specific type [ single data rate or double data rate], and will support a certain amount in mb's [1 gig, 2 gigs].\n\nYou can usually find what mainboard you have by going to Start, All Prog, Accessories, System Tools, System Information.  With System Information highlighted on the left pane, on the right under System Manufacturuer and System Model your mainboard will be listed.
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Make sure you have the latest servicepack installed (SP2). You'll need it anyways if you wanna keep receiving updates from the Windows site.\nIf the BIOS detects the harddrive in full, start XP and goto Disk Management > Action > Rescan disks and see if it will pick up the correct size.\nIf the BIOS doesn't recognize the harddrive as 320 Gb, you'll need to find an updated BIOS for your motherboard. Check the site of the manufacturer for that (most motherboards made after 2003 will be able to recognize large harddrives).\nAs a last resort, you can goto the website of the manufacturer of the harddrive to see if they have extra drivers that will solve the problem for you.
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I hope this helps...\n\nhttp://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:aBuNyjupTZYJ:support.necsam.com/download/versa4000sr.pdf+NEC+VERSA+4000C+laptop+documentation&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=3\n\nhttp://support.necsam.com/mobilesolutions/hardware/notebooks/4000/4000man.ASP
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you kidding your vaio is worth down in the $500-550 range depending on the year it was made from now.  I can buy a brand new comp yo for around $400-500 easy coz they very affordable probably better than yours coz i can get them custom made from this comp tech company. p.s they start at 520 megabytes at 500 dollars+
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www.iomega.com/la/sp/products/hdd/sys_reqs_30fw.html \n\nwww.iomegasupportforums.com/phpbb2/viewforum. php?f=5&sid=ff4cb0a9b40d9cea7fa55785a579c2bf - 84k\n\nwww.iomega.com/na/products/ product_detail.jsp;IomegaProdComSession=2c1LFf0OassMdug2V6k9rorFN2GcZbeWlC4up7...
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Every motherboard has a part number, usually next to the serial number.  Copy it down, type it into Google, and it should come up with the specs of your MB including the type of memory required.
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I see from the Toshiba site that most current Equium Laptops are coming with 512/1024 MB onboard with a maximum memory of 2/4 GB. If your laptop only came with 256MB then I must assume its a slightly older model. You will need to be more precise on the model description for accurate advice. Look for the Label with the model description and or the S/n of the machine Toshiba would then be able to  tell you more. As an Alternative www.crucial.com are always very helpfull and have a model based memory selector!
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I bought this one:\n\nHP Pavilion Notebook PC (DV5030US)\nHP   DV5030US  \n• AMD Turion® 64 ML-37 \n• 100GB hard drive \n• 15.4" WXGA widescreen  • Double-layer DVD+R/RW \n• 1024MB of DDR memory \n• LightScribe technology  \n\nand is great.
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what size is the hard drive? How old is it? Hav eyou tried to install prior to making new partitions?
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easy...\n\ngo to kingston.com and use their ram wizard...  No guess work.\n\nAnoosh's suggestion just uses the system info in the registry.  It can be inaccurate.