Replaced faulty hard drive and installed Win 7 - lost use of eject button etc.

[jedusi]

So as one of my two drives went flaky on my VGN AR31S and strted throwing up Raid 0 errors. As the only answer was to replace the drive I threw out both the small ones - put in a WD scorpio and a clean install of Win 7.

Mostly this went fine except for the following.

1-Loss of eject button functionality
2-loss of AV buttons + 'S' buttons and Volume.

3- Additionally I still have an ongoing issue where the DVD won't read most discs unless I copy them onto a Sony DVD on another machine first then use the copy

I have not done a full restore from a recovery disc as I don't want to re-install vista then reconvert to Win 7.

Any ideas ??

This is driving me nuts.

thanks

[Blencogo]

Hi jedusi,

Have you downloaded and installed the Originally Installed Drivers and the Originally Installed Utilities for the AR31S from here? -

http://support.vaio.sony.eu/computing/vaio/downloads/preinstalled/index.aspx?l=en_GB&m=VGN-AR31S

As there are no dedicated Drivers and Utilities for Windows 7 you need to reinstall all the Vista ones.

To fix your problems, it sounds to me like you need to install: -

1. The SFEP driver from the Original Drivers download - this needs to be installed from Device Manager.

2. For the Fn buttons to work you need to install the following from the Original Utilities download. These must be installed IN ORDER:

Utils Installer 1 SonyUtils.DLL
Utils Installer 2 Sony Shared Library
Utils Installer Setting Utility Series
Utils Installer Vaio Event Service

3. For the AV Buttons you need to install: -

Utils Installer AV Button Utility

You may find you need more Utilities to be installed if you find other functions are not working correctly (is the camera working?) and also take a look in the UPDATES Tab for any updates to the above. When you look in Device Manager are there any yellow warnings ! - If so you may need to install more of the original drivers.

[jedusi]

Many thanks for that I have got all the original drivers and utilities on a spare external disk.

You mention installing SFEP from device manager ? I'm not sure how I would do that ? Any pointers ?

- also do you happen to know which of these affects the 'eject' button ?

Thanks again

[Blencogo]

I think the SFEP driver covers the S and Eject buttons but you may also need to install the Utilities in No2 of my last post. SFEP can be difficult to install.

First check in device manager under 'Human Interface Devices' for the Sony Firmware Extension Parser driver. If its already there then it is already installed and you can carry on installing the others utilities in order.

1. If it is not there open device manager and check for devices that Windows 7 did not automatically install. Look for one either called 'Unknown Device' or something like 'Intel LPC Device' with a yellow exclamation mark next to it.
2. If you find this then right click the device and choose 'Properties' and then find the 'Details' tab.
3. In the drop down box one of the items will be Hardware ID.
4. Choose this option and make sure that the hardware ID is SNY5001. Only if this ID matches you can now click the 'Drivers' tab and click to 'Install Driver' as normal.
5. Select Browse my computer for driver software.
6. Select Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer.
7. Select Have Disk....
8. Select Browse....
9. Browse to your back-up driver .inf file. (\\SFEP\SFEP.INF)
10. Next ..........
11. If you get a warning screen, select "Install Anyway".
12. Close & Re-Boot
13. If it works, pour yourself a big drink!
14. Install the other drivers in order.

Incidentally if you find a hardware ID SNY6001 you need to install the SPIC driver in the same way.

[jedusi]

First check in device manager under 'Human Interface Devices' for the Sony Firmware Extension Parser driver. If its already there then it is already installed and you can carry on installing the others utilities in order.

Good news is that bit is there and says it's working.

Let's try the next bits . .

Some, many or all, may have been installed in a random order 🙂 would they need to be uninstalled and re-installed in the correct order ?

[Blencogo]

I wouldn't bother to uninstall - just reinstall in order.

[jedusi]

Blencogo - you are a star !!

Eject - works
Mute - works
Volume - works
AV Buttons - works
S1 & S2 - work.

Have a virtual drink of your choice on me

Now the only issue to resolve is a long standing one where the pesky DVD player only wants to read stuff that has been recopied onto Sony discs - this was after the Sony update in January which caused the chaos.

Any idea where a clean copy of winDVD can be found ? I cant see it by name in the utilities ?