Vaio VGN-BX195ep Vista Install help

Hi, first post, but have found your site very helpful already, thanks.

Just had a hard drive failure on my VGN-BX195ep lapton, I bought a new hard drive, but when installing one of my recovery discs (application disc) is not recognised.

I have a new Vista Home Premium here unsed, so thought I would try that. It installs fine, but I am really struggling to get the Sony Drivers to make it work.

I am without Wireless Lan, Flash drives and also have ? makrs on device manager on Biometric processor (fingerprint I guess) Mass Storage Controller, and two unknow devices which are listed as Intel 82891FBM LPC INt Controllers.

I have spoken to Sony support who claim the original installed drivers should work, but they they have errors on intall due to wrong operating system.

Any idea where I can find drivers?

I am confused as to why the Wireless lan does not work as it seems fine in the device manager? But when turned on, apart from the light on the front it is not working?

 

I have dlownloaded the Intel software for the 2200bg wifi card, which come with a diagnostic util, Test fine for Hardware, Driver, Radio and scan finding plenty of networks. It then fails at Association test?

During this Vista does not recognise that Wifi is running, no icon bottom right, no messages?

Any ideas?

 

OK, managed torsolve the wi-fi issue.
I had to manually add a network under Network centre? Strange always listed them on other machines.

I just need to get the SD and MMS flash slots to work

and identify the Unknown devices Intel 82891FBM LPC INt Controllers