Hello all,

Bought a Sony VAIO VGN-FZ140E (http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=344760&tabtype=rv#rv) Laptop which came with Vista... Installed XP... Sony no longer supports XP and simply refuses to help :mad:... Have already spent endless hours and nights but can not find XP drivers for the 3 following features of the laptop... desperate ...SOS....please help ... Billions of advance thanks for helping me out God bless you!


Software/Driver for the "S" button
Software/Driver for the "AV Mode" button
Software/Driver for making the FN keys work for sound and brightness control

Sounds like you have a registry problem for your keyboard drivers

I had a similar problem with my keyboard for my Acer Aspire 1640 exept none of my keys were working at all and my Windows Start up would just randomly freeze couldn't log in or even shut back down.

So I downloaded CCleaner freeware from Piriform you can download it from Filehippo Downloads. I ran the registry cleaner and it fixed my startup problem and my keyboard problem.

it recognized that I was missing a Startup .DLL file and repaired it for me and also about 25 other issues which were repaired by the registry cleaner after that everything was working fine

I'm no expert on registries or anything but the way I understand it is

Sometimes the registry can get screwed up when you install and uninstall large amounts of data files from your HDD and certain files can get pointed to the wrong areas in your registry ....mixed up in other words.


just by running CCleaner many times in the past my problems have been fixed. Great little program.

Hello,

Try this one:
ftp://ftp.vaio-link.com/pub/OS/XPDOWNGRADE/FZ19/

Cheers,
Gabriel.

maybe got lost in the tangle. did you do a clean install? i.e. obliterate all of Vista before XP install. recommended by my A+ Certification book that various versions of operating systems be kept on separte partitions on drive to 'avoid problems' but never stated exact problems. Just a tidbit, I know. can always re-install XP and see if it takes better. P.S. i am not A+ certified.