VAIO TT (TT198U) Auto-dimmer, noise-cancelling after reformat?

Hey everyone first time poster.

I am lucky enough to have TWO VGN-TT198U's sitting on my desk at work...that we got for free (on loan from Sony for evaluation/demo).

I'm trying to see how well I can reconstruct the image to be a usable business machine without all the Sony/AOL crap everywhere.

I've gotten vanilla Ultimate reinstalled (Installs didn't work with Enterprise, sadly), all the buttons working and all Unknown devices found. Also got WinDVD and Blu-Ray working fine. I have Restore discs I made from the second stock TT I have and was able to install most everything...but I must have missed whatever is doing auto-dimming. Thinking it might be nice because it does help with the battery life.

Also, the noise cancelling headphones don't seem to be working correctly...the tray app that detects them is missing...what installer do I need for that?


FYI, the main reason I headed down this path was that WiFi was an utter nightmare to get working...I had to go into the VAIO Wireless Wizard and click 'Current Connections' to even get the WiFi to see any networks. After uninstalling the Wizard, it couldn't see ANYTHING. EVER. Anyone have a good fix for this? I might just be able to handle the much easier 'uninstall crap' route if I can find a good fix for that.

 

I am not clear what exactly you have done in reformat. Did you use the recovery discs to do the reformat?

If so, you still have the vaio recovery center. Go to start-program-vaio recovery center-reinstall programs and drivers. You should be able to fins whatever program and drivers that came with the TT.

If you did not use the recovery discs, then you have to do it again. Put recovery disc 1 in and restart.

1. After it boots, I chose to reinstall complete system.
2. Answer "no" to question on keeping factory default C drive. It will give you a choice to partition the drive. I chose 40 GB for c drive.
3. Answer "no" to question on keeping factory default programs on C
It goes on to install windows, and reboots. Then a screen comes up saying that it has finished with installing windows, and will procede to install programs. I hit "cancel" This stops it from installing any of the sony's programs and drivers.

After this you can run the vaio recovery center, and choose to re-install programs and drivers. A screen comes up to give you all the choices of programs and drivers. It is all there.

 

I did not use the Recovery Center to reimage, I used a Windows Vista Ultimate disc. I have Recovery Center on the 3 DVDs and I have installed many things, but it still doesn't seem to add these two things. Do you know specifically what drivers/programs I need to install for this?

 

Figured out the noise cancelling. The Realtek audio driver on Sony's website doesn't contact the Noise cancelling app (vncutil.exe) but the one on the recovery disc does.

Still need auto-dimming functionality...

 

OK, I've made more progress. I figured out it was in VAIO Control Center, which is a part of the Notebook Utilities package...apparently it didn't install correctly before. Now it's installed and I have SOME functionality in Control Center but about half of the tabs don't work, most importantly the dimmer one doesn't...but the app stalls and eventually recovers.

Not working:
System Information > System Information
Power Management > Lid Action Settings, Power Options
Network Connections > Network Connections
Display > Automatic Brightness Settings
Sound > Sounds
Security > User Accounts

 

I don't know if it is a problem with vaio or with vista. I do not have a wireless wizard installed. I just click start-network-network sharing center. Sometimes I do not see other computers in my network, but most of the time it is ok. Also, this 'private and public' network thing is very strict and only in private network that I can see my other computers. Also, I can see from TT to my other xp machines and read their files, but I still have not figure out how to get my xp machines to read files in vista TT.

 

Hello robstandard

Have I made more progress with "Auto dimmer" and XP ?

Thank you very much.

 

can someone help me please!!!! please....

i have a tt series notebook and after installed windows 7 the auto dimmer, and the noise cancelling doesn't work. I called sony and they don't know how to fix it either- they told me to live with it.

Please help....

 

do you know how to make the auto dimmer work? please help me. thanks.

 

Hi lilfarmd: I'm having the same problem... I remember how it worked in Vista Business x86. After going Win 7 x64, auto brightness control stopped working. Please let me know when you have found a solution.

Peter

 

I have installed WIN7 RC1. My auto dimmer works. When I did it earlier this year, I found all the drivers from Sony, and one of them is SOASUS -00163993 Settings Utility Update. Do you have something like that?
Also, I installed Sony Notebook Utilities
SOAOTH-45200000.