Archive for 'VAIO'
Making the brightness keys work on a VAIO VGN-FE31H
After installing Windows XP on the VGN-FE31H, the screen brightness keys (Fn-F5 and Fn-F6) no longer work. To make them work again you need to install some of the utilities that ship with the laptop, which are also available in the FE3_Utilities.zip download from the Sony web site.
Posted: April 23rd, 2007 under VAIO, Windows.
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Removing the hard disk from a VAIO VGN-FE31H
Removing the hard disk from a VAIO VGN-FE31H is pretty easy. It’s located on the right hand side of the laptop, at the front (to the right of the touchpad).
Posted: February 18th, 2007 under VAIO.
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GFS2 errors on a VAIO VGN-FE31H?
My VAIO has an 8GB recovery partition at the beginning of its hard disk. Windows identifies it as an “EISA Configuration” partition. When I first got the VAIO I booted into Fedora Core rescue mode using the FC6 DVD. I couldn’t mount the partition:
sh-3.1# mkdir /mnt/sda1
sh-3.1# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1
mount: Mounting /dev/sda1 on /mnt/sda1 failed: Device [...]
Posted: February 17th, 2007 under Linux, VAIO.
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Installing Windows XP Professional SP2 on a Sony VAIO VGN-FE31H
I recently bought a Sony VAIO VGN-FE31H. It’s a pretty nice laptop, except for all the proprietary software that it comes with. The first thing I wanted to do was reinstall Windows XP from scratch.
I hoped that I would be able to get official drivers for the hardware in the laptop, but for most of [...]
Posted: December 24th, 2006 under VAIO, Windows.
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