Sony Vaio VGN-B99GP driver ?

Posted by AnhTai on January 27, 2006, 1:16 am

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Hi all,

I lost recovery disk of my Vaio VGN-B99GP. However, my laptop had so
many problems, I had to format and reinstall WinXP. I have a back up of
Driver folder so that I can install driver for sound, vga, network
card, wireless, modem..... But the keyboard can not used Fn keys. I
guess I need the special software to control function keys, I search a
lot on SONY sites but not found anything can work with VGN-B99GP.

Anyone know how to "active" the function keys ?

Thanks and Best Regards.
Happy Lunar New Year.
Tai, Tiet.

Posted by Quaoar on January 27, 2006, 1:46 am

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AnhTai wrote:
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Go to
http://esupport.sony.com/perl/swu-list.pl?mdl=VGNB100&UpdateType=Original

Download and install the Sony Shared Library, Sony Notebook Control
Device, and the Sony Programmable I/O Control Device Driver.

These are for the VGN-B100 on the US site and will likely work for your
ANZO laptop. If not, then visit the Sony Euro site.

Q

Posted by AnhTai on January 27, 2006, 2:16 am

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Thank Quaoar.

I downloaded and installed as your instruction but everthing seems no
changes. Can not use function keys.. :(
Do i need configure something after installed?

Posted by Quaoar on January 27, 2006, 7:13 am

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AnhTai wrote:
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The two applications you need are HKServ.exe and HKWnd.exe and these
should be running at start. Check if there is a Sony folder either in
C: or C:\Program Files that might have these two apps.

I'll check my restore disk set that I was correct about the libraries I
referenced when I get to my office.

Q

Posted by AnhTai on January 27, 2006, 2:37 pm

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HI Q

Which your reply, i continued research and finally, i can make these
function keys work. You are right, we need Sony ShareLib and Sony
Utilities and Hotkey program. I follow the instruction of the site
below:
http://www.djvagon.co.uk/sonyhotkeyutility.html

However, my laptop has 2 programable keys that are S1 and S2. As
orgininal, Sony assigned "Mute" to S1, leave S2 free. Now, I want to
assign as they did but .... googling :)

Thanks for your help so much.