Topic: sony vaio pcg-v505ex

[bagtagsell]

Several issues here
1. How do i preven it going into hybernation when I close the lid?
2. I did a clean install of xp, how do I adjust the contrast (function keys aren't working)
3. Where the crap do I get win2k dirvers, sony website no help
4. Any vaio users have tips

[clarson]

I only know the answer to #1
Right click on desktop: "Properties" > "Screensaver" tab > "Power" button > "Advanced" tab.
Once you're there you'll see a drop down menu that says "When I close the lid of my computer:" and you'll want to choose "do nothing"

Or instead of clicking the Advanced tab, click the "Hibernate" tab. There's a box that says "enable hibernation". You can uncheck that too.

[caymanreview]

3. Where the crap do I get win2k dirvers, sony website no help

you coldnt go to the sony page for the specific model you have and get win2k drivers?

my old vaio picturebook and the newer vaio i had both had 2k drivers on thier particular pages

[bagtagsell]

I just got off the phone with sony.  They don't support windows 2000, and basically said your screwed.  *shakes fist angrily at sony*  I guess I'll try a home/pro, dual boot now

[RRobar]

I just got off the phone with sony.  They don't support windows 2000, and basically said your screwed.  *shakes fist angrily at sony*  I guess I'll try a home/pro, dual boot now

why do you have to run win2000? XP Pro is a fairly reliable and solid OS. I've been kind out of the loop since switching to a mac. There are web istes out there with info for optimising XP pro for recording audio.

[fsulloway]

www.musicxp.net/index.php

[sygdwm]

Several issues here
1. How do i preven it going into hybernation when I close the lid?
2. I did a clean install of xp, how do I adjust the contrast (function keys aren't working)
3. Where the crap do I get win2k dirvers, sony website no help
4. Any vaio users have tips

why do you need w2k drivers w/ xp?

[caymanreview]

I just got off the phone with sony.  They don't support windows 2000, and basically said your screwed.  *shakes fist angrily at sony*  I guess I'll try a home/pro, dual boot now

why do you have to run win2000? XP Pro is a fairly reliable and solid OS. I've been kind out of the loop since switching to a mac. There are web istes out there with info for optimising XP pro for recording audio.

even doing that on my newer sony laptop i wasnt able to get xp pro to work correctly w/out clicks/pops

[FiKe]

hey now
 I'm running a Sony PC-k13 and I swear I was never happy with this laptop for any audio applications , when burning Cd's with eac it would never auto eject the CD on completion I had to push the little emergency pin hole, Recording was a joke no matter what I did it was very unreliable and would quit recording and either crash or lock up Im pretty good about defragging and such needed to run windows, and I know some of you guys are pretty windows literate but I couldnt even get this comp to play a CD without hanging, up the list of gripes with it were endless.
 THen one warn summer night in the control room ( I work at a powwer plant)  I forget what I was doing but I got this very spooky looking blue screen with alot of useless( to me anyways) info about things not being right in the winblows OS so I rebooted and alas the hard drive wasnt being recoginized . Removed and reinstalled the HD and no joy no luck no computer ,you get the idea.
 Well I talked with sony and that was just as useless as when I talked to them about my M-1 I couldnt even get a straight answer as to where to send the dammed thing much less how long it would take. So I looked around and found another HD for 120$ and a guy at work suggested I give mandrake a try.
 I downloaded 10.0 official , Audacity and a few other programs and now i have a viable reliable DAW.
 Im thinking of writing up a little something describing the whole process and posting it in the Linux links thread,maybe one day we will have a Linux dedicated forum here.
 I dont know if your laptop has any of the problems this one had but Im actually really happy the HD died because I now have really nice computer the learning curve was a little intense at first but I wouldnt hesitate to install Mandrake on anything I own in fact I bought the Power Pack cds ( 6 ) for 59$ .
 And I never did get half of the fn keys to work as well as alot of other stuff.