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    sony FZ Av Mode dont work???

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by racing2khaos, Jun 22, 2007.

  1. racing2khaos

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    help me!!! i cant even find the c:instanton folder...
     
    racing2khaos, Jun 22, 2007
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    Alot of people are posting about this issue, it seems a vista autoupdate has disabled the media controls and function keys
     
    spookoman, Jun 22, 2007
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    thanks for the only answer... :)
     
    racing2khaos, Jun 22, 2007
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    and it disabled CD drive as well. :p
     
    wnmnkh, Jun 22, 2007
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    my cd drive work its just registry on that one...
     
    racing2khaos, Jun 22, 2007
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    from the Vaio FZ Owner's Post ( http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=128804&page=16)
    it seems people have seen in the fineprint that blueray equipped Vaios (i.e. FZ180 and some FZ190s) will not have a working AV button. I wonder if Vista is lacking driver support for the blueray drive as well, but leaves the regular CD/DVD drive alone. Some people say reinstalling the Sony drivers from the support site on the sonystyle.com webpage at least reestablishes Fn key function.
     
    Citricacidcycle, Jun 22, 2007
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    yeah i got my fn keys working again just because i reinstal the vaio utillity from their support page... everything on my comp is back to normal including the dvd drive, only my av mode doesnt work.... man thats one of the feature that i was really looking up to use... :( btw i use my cell phone as my multimedia remote controll... its so cool :) i wonder if i could use it on the av mode...
     
    racing2khaos, Jun 23, 2007
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    As of this writing there are no FZ models with Blu-ray and an Intel chipset. The InstantOn feature is Linux-based and likely NVidia has not developed a linux driver for their latest mobile chipsets. Also, playback of Blu-ray content requires HDCP which is not yet implemented in linux.
    An InstantOn feature capable of playing Blu-ray would have to be based on an OS that is HDCP capable and this would require a complete rewrite by Intervideo.
    The AV Mode button on a model without InstantOn may only be used within Windows to launch a selection of media applications.
     
    bananapudding, Jun 26, 2007
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