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    FW (WIN 7): MS and Fn & Media keys not working

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by bonbooni, Jan 15, 2011.

  1. bonbooni

    bonbooni Notebook Consultant

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    Hi,
    After upgrading to win 7 on my FW I lost the memory stick detection, reading and writing, the SD card is detected fine though.

    My second problem is that the Fn keys are not working; only the Fn-F2 (Mute) is working but with no graphical indication, also the volume -,+are working but with no increase or decrease volume status bar shown while pressing. I installed settings utility, shared library, even service, control centre, I was told to install SFEP driver too but could not find any exe setup file in the folder though.

    Any help will be greatly appreciated.
    Summary of the problem: MS functionality lost
    Fn keys not working
    media and S keys are not working (despite the vol but that does not show any graphical representation while in operation)
     
    bonbooni, Jan 15, 2011
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  2. James D

    James D Notebook Prophet

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    First. Are there unrecognized devices in device manager?
    2-nd. Install SFEP. Open device manager. right click on unrecognised device - refresh drivers - search drivers manually - search on drive C. It should find it.
    3-d. install vaio control center (if you already installed Shared library before).

    PS Of course you must uninstall Sony Control utilities before all that.

    tell me if it helped
     
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  3. bonbooni

    bonbooni Notebook Consultant

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    Thanks James, yes I found an unknown device. I did what you told me it installed the SFEP alright. The thing is, it still displays no graphical feedback with the button presses.What about the sony control utilities where can I uninstall that..?
    P.S. The memory stick problem solved :) thx used the driver update thing
     
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  4. James D

    James D Notebook Prophet

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    the same thing with cardreader. install driver then manually search using device manager.

    About controll utilities... Sorry "Notebook Control and Utilities" means Original - Sony® Notebook Utilities... uninstall this. Then all sony software like event service and other IF IT STILL WILL BE SHOWN IN UNINSTALL SOFTWARE MANAGER.

    reboot and install notebook utilities again - it should bring you all FN buttons and display that

    EDIT: too late :) I already wrote about cardreader
     
    James D, Jan 15, 2011
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  5. J&SinKTO

    J&SinKTO Notebook Deity

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    For the function buttons order of driver install is important:
    1. Sony Shared Library
    2. Sony Notebook Control & Utilities
    3. Notebook Utilities
    These will all be listed under the download page for your model - since you upgraded to Win 7 (same like I did), use the Vista version if Sony did not supply an updated version.
    Also suggest a re-boot after each block of drivers (some will require it).
     
    J&SinKTO, Jan 16, 2011
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