Hardware/Sony Vaio
These days I was given a Sony Vaio VPCZ12X9E notebook which had constant reboot issues. Windows 7 was installed.
Sony’s notebooks have always intrigued me and I wish I had one, so I accepted, it would be thrown away…
The hardware was good with an Intel® Core ™ i5-520M processor and 8GB of supported DDR3 RAM so I got to work on it.
Ram upgrade
There was installed a 2GB 1033 RAM bank and a Samsung 4GB 1333 one. The maximum frequency supported by the MB is 1060MHz. I have installed two equal 4GB 1033MHz banks to reach the maximum supported.
The drive is a 128GB Dual SSD (RAID 0) so I didn’t replace it.
After checking the disk I was able to start Windows 7. The bios is accessed by holding down the F2 key at boot.
I estimated that partitioning and installation of Arch would take too much time and I used balenaEtcher to write the Linux Mint XFCE ISO to pen drive.
Installation went well and I am very satisfied.
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