Vaio FE11H Windows XP media centre to Windows XP Pro

[Bartechnic]

Hello Everybody, I got a new vaio FE11H pre-installed with Microsoft XP media centre edition, I have now installed Microsoft XP Pro with SP2. The DVD dive is now recognised as a pioneer DVD-RW and dosen't play DVDs and the sound is not working. The computer is not recognising a PCI device (I assume that this is the sound card). I need help, I need audio... Thanksodwyerb@tcd.ie

[rich912]

Hi Bartechnic and welcome to the forum.

For the sound problem have a look at this thread.

Regarding the read of DVD's, have you re-installed Win DVD or similar since changing the operating system?

[Bartechnic]

Thanks very much for your help, one more question ' None of the extra sony keys e.g. brighten +/- are working, do you know how to fix this problem, cheers,

[Blencogo]

Sounds like you need to download an re-install the Vaio Utilities from .Vaio-Link

[Bartechnic]

Do you not have to re-install the original OS to do this? sorry, about my ignorance...

[kee-lo_]

No, it's an EXE file which runs in Windows

[Bartechnic]

Hmmmm.... Can't seem to find this .exe file ;Help

[rich912]

Your particular model does not have a single .exe that will re-install all the utilities. Instead, in the pre-installed utilities folder, you will find Utils installer folders numbered from 1 to 14 plus a couple of others. To get the function keys to work install the following utilities in this order:

1.Utils installer 1 (Sony Utilities)
2.Utils installer 2 (Sony Shared Library)
3.Utils installer 4 (Setting utility series)

You will need to reboot for the changes to take effect and, in addition, it may be necessary to repeat the procedure more than once before it will work.

If you are then experiencing difficulties try re-installing all the utilities in numerical sequence.

[Bartechnic]

Cheers, I will try this out later, appreciate your help,