hi there
i recently was given a vaio model no. PCG-GRT995MP by my company and as it is our policy to use windows 2000 we had to remove XP and load it with 2000. after this a bunch of stuff didn't work (modem, network adaptor etc) but i've managed to get it all working apart from two things.....
1. firstly, does anyone know who makes the touchpad? i want to be able to turn off the taps for the touchpad as i don't like it and keep moving files and folders without realising. i cannot use the cd to load it as the cd that came with the pc tried to reload xp whenever i try and use it. sony haven't been much help, they told me to reload xp, copy the files i need to a cd or something, then reload 2000 and use the new cd, but i don't really want to do that. if i knew who made the touchpad i thought maybe i could get 2000 compatible s/w from them. any ideas? an example of how annoying this is is that i have now retyped this message about 4 times because i have touched the pad by mistake and god knows what has happened.
2. secondly, i am having similar problems with my CD drive. i have a CRX-830E CD-RW/DVD ROM drive and it looks to me like i should be able to read and write both CDs and DVDs, according to the spec. is this correct? i can see info on dvds in the properties of the drive, but whenever i put a dvd into the drive i get a message telling me i can't play dvds (sorry this is vague but i don't have a dvd on me to test it again). i clearly can't use my sony cd to reload the s/w as in question 1, but if anyone knows what package it is maybe i can get the software from somewhere else.
any ideas would be really appreciated. thanks.
