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    Sony SA - Speed light on clean install

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by edrussell, Jul 1, 2011.

  1. edrussell

    edrussell Newbie

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    Hi all,

    I've got an SA with a clean install of Ultimate N (on an M4 SSD) - and most things are working. The light for "speed mode" - next to the switch - doesn't seem to however, even though the machine seems to switch mode.

    Any ideas?

    Thanks in advance,

    Ed.
     
    edrussell, Jul 1, 2011
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  2. niebyl2002

    niebyl2002 Notebook Consultant

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    I was wondering too what it does?
     
    niebyl2002, Jul 1, 2011
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    willysp Notebook Consultant

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    I'm still working on my clean install - and that does not work for me either. (Yet)

    Typically the graphics driver is installed very early in the process. But since the Sony graphics package has multiple components, this may need to be installed much later - e.g after SFEP and/or SSL and/or NBUtil. Just speculation.... Will play with it this weekend.

    As you said, the switch does work (you can look in Device Manager and see the Radeon driver come and go), so I'm not going to worry too much about it. As I did a restore from recovery disks last weekend, I saw several things happen that Sony hasn't posted packages for on their website.
     
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    niebyl2002 Notebook Consultant

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    FYI, I look it up in manual and the (what it appears to be led) light actually is an ambient light sensor.
     
    niebyl2002, Jul 2, 2011
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    willysp Notebook Consultant

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    Ahhh! Thanks for the post. I was almost ready to do a recovery install today to check! You saved me some time!! :)
     
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    edrussell Newbie

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    Thank you so much!

    Coming from an SZ6 that's exactly where the "speed" light was. Next time I'll read the book!

    Ed.
     
    edrussell, Jul 4, 2011
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    gioplc Notebook Enthusiast

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    so did you just installed windows and the drivers on the support download page? no restore disks? is it all working? i'm switching to an SSD too, i really need your feedback.
    thanks
     
    gioplc, Jul 6, 2011
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    Yep - all working fine except the fingerprint reader (which I'd never use so I just disabled it and not tried to fix)

    Ed.
     
    edrussell, Jul 6, 2011
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