Sorry to hear that.
I haven't tried transferring files using the card reader, don't know where I placed my micro-SD to SD card adapter.
Anyway I transferred some jpeg pictures (like 200MBs) before using external HDD (USB) without any issues.

I did a quick search on this issue, and this seems to be related to Vista or a combination of Vista plus some hardware issues.
So far 2 kinds of errors are reported,
1. Image files being randomly corrupted when transferred from XP to Vista machine through the use of card reader or USB.
2. Reports of image files already on Vista machine being randomly corrupted over time. <-- this would be really bad if it's true
So far, haven't found anything that can recover those corrupted image files.

Anyway have you updated your Vista and Vaio? Maybe there's a fix already. Sorry can't help much.

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Added on May 3, 2009, 3:58 pm
FW35 comes with 32bit Vista Home Premium which cannot fully utilized the 4GB. Vista 32bit can probably just used up to ~3.5GB only. I'm not sure about the dynamic shared memory space use by the ATI3470. But ATI3470 already has 256 of dedicated ram and it is not a powerful GPU. It would be wise to research if there'll be significant performance increase by adding more ram to it first before committing to the upgrade.

You cannot use ddr3 on ddr2 mobo. They are different.
ddr2 ram and ddr2 sdram means the same thing, just a short form. SDRAM means Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory.

Dude i said "ddr2 ram" and "ddr2 sdram" means the same thing.
Not "ddr2 sdram" and "sdram".

Put it this way, sdram covers ddr1, ddr2, drr3 and so on. That's why we generally omit the sdram part, as mentioning ddr2 is sufficient already.

As I know for desktop, each ddr type has different "notch" to prevent accidental slotting into incompatible slots. Notebook ddr slots are different and I'm not familiar with it.
But wikipedia says ddr3 uses 1.5v whereas ddr2 uses 1.8v. This means earlier mobo supporting ddr2 only won't be able to support ddr3, but the opposite may be possible depending on mobo support.

ddr2 and ddr3 have 2 different type of slot, if a laptop use ddr2 means it uses ddr2 only, and if it used ddr3 means ddr3 only, no backward compatiblity

well, that is because the motherboard itself has both ddr2 and ddr3 slot

you can look at this gigabyte P35C-DS3R motherbord, 2 green DIMM slots for DDR3 and 4 dimm slots (Red+yellow) are meant for the traditional DDR2

No la. power saver plan purpose is to save power (battery life) right. So better don't do anything as it is already set to reduce the usage of the power. but it's all up to you. I'm just suggesting.

BTW your issue already solved?

No, normal battery is not like that. You didn't turn on the battery care function did you?
On a side note, always charging the battery to 100% full is not the best thing. Keeping it at 40% to 50% is best.
As I understand, it reports you have 4GB but it cannot use up to 4GB.

It's VAIO not VIAO (Video Audio Intelligence Organizer)

FW series already 2 generation, i never had customer complained about FW at all. In fact, this model has the least customer sent their unit to the service center.

the incident only happened once, and its occured to DELL notebook which use Sony Battery.
More than enough in Speed Mode.
Try NHC (Notebook Hardware Control) and post your temperature here, thanks.

yes, its kinda slow running resource hog os like vista. heck even asus not running with it.
i'll say hold to purchase until windows 7 is officially release.. by the time, it might get update with decent atom processors. its proven that the current P able to run windows 7 pretty well. check this out:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/vaio-p-...more-windows-7/

thanks engadget, you guys are kewlest.
you guys..shessh XD
its not in control panel...
here: http://www.pbus-167.com/