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    updated my AW from vista Home to Ultimate - need drivers/utilities

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by BoredBillJ, Jun 13, 2009.

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    BoredBillJ Notebook Enthusiast

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    I updated my AW from Home version (purchased this way) to Ultimate (from my MSDN subscription).

    Everything seems to be working except a couple things:

    The thing I'd most like to have working is the volume/function/brightness/other keys.

    The function keys (brightness, etc) will not work at all. I can't turn down the brightness at all.

    The volume keys work, but do not display the function overlay on the screen like it did before I updated to Ultimate. In other words, if I press volume Mute, it does mute, but it doesn't show the little overlay on the screen, telling me it muted.

    Can anyone tell me which program/utility/drivers from Sony I need to install to get this working? I used the download taxi from Sony and thought I installed every single thing available.

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    The other thing is the webcam. I'm not nearly as concerned about this, but might as well get it working if possible. Whenever I try to run the setup utility, it says Vista is required. Well.. I have Vista! I even went to the Sony website and tried to download the drivers for a different AW model where I can select Vista Ultimate as the operating system.
     
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    Almost embarassed to post the answer to this... but maybe it will help someone else out.

    When I installed Vista from my MSDN subscription I wasn't paying attention and picked up an old disk, which didn't include Service Pack 1.

    SP1 is required for the notebook utilities. It says it in bright red on the download page. I just didn't realize I didn't have SP1. Go figure. Installed SP1 and reinstalled everything... works great.
     
    BoredBillJ, Jun 14, 2009
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