We have already raised this problem with Sony Europe who have asked Sony Japan to look at this problem. 

After an investigation Japan Headquarters replied stating that VAIO's are not affected.
They have investigated repair data world-wide and have not found the related issue on any VAIO. They will continue their investigations and will monitor the repair data.

Different manuafacturers use the nVidia products in different configurations and it could be that the Vaio design does not make this problem worse.

It will soon become obvious on this forum if Vaio owners start to experience these problems but in the end there is little benefit in worrying about this - if your Vaio has a video problem it will be repaired under guarantee.  If a general nVidia problem begins to emerge, I am sure a free repair will be available.

The NVidia issue is an odd mix of obvious and unexplained.

Its been discussed in another very good forum on Sony too
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=268277&page=19

and one of the oddities is that Vaios do not seem to be as affected.
I'm saying as affected as there were 2 or maybe 3 FZ which seemed to have developed a graphics problem.
(Other factors may have added to the failure)

But that's it - which seems in a way strange...

What Sony's response will be - I hope its one that'll let people use their NVidia in peace.

(Glad I'm not affected, I use the Chipset on my SZ all the time)

Hi all,

Thanks for updates.

There is something I would like to know : what is going to happen if the vaio is no more under warranty ?
In France the warranty period is only 1 year.  Will Sony extend the warranty period ?

OK where do I start...... I have a FZ21Z that has started running extremely hot over the last few months, especially when playing games.

When I say hot I have loaded up PC Wizard 08 to check the temps and currently the processors are running at 98 and 97 degrees and the gpu is running at 101 degrees c!

I am not doing anything on the laptop other than replying to this post and all that is running in the background is some AV software and the normal windows processes.

Last month I raised a call with the Vaio support and had a call from someone who told me that he didn't think there was a problem and that I must be using the laptop on a soft surface and am blocking the vents. He then said that if I wanted to send it in to be repaired I could but it is highly likely they would find nothing wrong with it and I would be required to pay £150 for wasting their time.

Well I only use the laptop on a table and the vents are not covered. But sadly I didn't want another bill so have not sent it in, as they could say whatever they liked regardless of whether there is a genuine problem or not.

So am I just supposed to keep using it and wait for it to melt down or are Sony going to help me out and fix this problem? The damn thing gets so hot that I can't even touch the front left edge of it!!!!

It seemed pretty pertinent to me as one of the 'features' of this great graphics chip is that it overheats!

Hi Chanandler,

About the VAIO FZ temperature you can take a look at the following thread from our friends at notebookreview.com: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=273654

I guess your temperature is a bit higher than average maybe the fan grill is covered by dust already.

There's nothing you can do besides cleaning it. If your computer is still in warranty, you don't need to worry because if anything bad happens to your GPU, SONY will fix it.