Sony Tr2ap

I have this Vaio since new. It is out of date and a bit slow but still used it sometimes for travel. Recently replaced the hard drive and lost the original image. Have tried to reconfigure using open market XP and drivers from SONY website. Mostly works ok except I can not find the original Picture Gear Studio or Sonic Stage software. In addition, the motion eye camera now does not work. The indicator light goes on but there is no picture.

I imagine I can do without the software for general use, but have the feeling the lack of Picture Gear is why the camera is not working.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

 

Search this forum for threads for clean installation of Windows for your model. People have been installing newer operating systems, and even the older operating systems without the crapware that Sony insisted on bundling (before they thought better of it and now offer a semi-clean option when you order).

 

Picture Gear and Sonic Stage are old, old pieces of software as installed on the TRs. I'd look in various forums for equivalent software to replace them with! I certainly never used those two packages on my TR5... The webcam has always been troublesome and well known for failing to work, but I doubt the missing Picture Gear software is to blame. Mine survived for many years but failed quite recently...

 

Thanks all, and thanks for suggestions of alternatives. Do you have specific suggestions?

 

It all depends what you use the software for. If you want to use Sonic Stage to organise music and sync to a portable device, then either the device will come with software (e.g. iTunes, Zune, etc.) or use Windows Media Centre. If it just to play music, then a player such as Musicbee, Media Monkey, Banshee, etc. will play and organise music for you.

For handling images, software like ACDSee, Picasa, Irfanview will all allow pictures to be sorted and manipulated. The new Paint.net is quite good for manipulation.

 

I assume you mean getting the webcam to work?

I would suggest checking device manager to see if you have any (!) anywhere. On mine, the "Sony Visual Communications Camera" is in the "Imaging devices section". So recommend you check that it says its working fine.

If it seems to be working there, you may want to try skype to see if can access it properly. Skype also enables you to click on the "webcam settings" - there may be something there that might fix it.