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OK,
I have reinstalled windows. Direct X works fine.
However, I have a couple of new VERY annoying problems.
1. My firewire port has literally this second stopped working. I use this for my external Hard Drive. I know it is nothing to do with the Hard Drive itself as I have just plugged it into USB and it works fine.
What has caused this and how can I fix it!!
2. I have downloaded the Utils pack from the download site. I have installed the Hotkeys thing and also the Sony Notebook Setup.
The Hotkeys still dont work and when I try to load th Sony Notebook Setup program from the start menu it tells me...
"You failed to load SnyUtlis.dll. Please make sure it is properly installed"
You guys have helped me loads recently and I feel like I am being a pain but please HELP!!!
Owen
Hi Owen,
You guys have helped me loads recently and I feel like I am being a pain but please HELP!!!
1. My firewire port has literally this second stopped working. I use this for my external Hard Drive. I know it is nothing to do with the Hard Drive itself as I have just plugged it into USB and it works fine.
"You failed to load SnyUtlis.dll. Please make sure it is properly installed"
1. Click START
2. Click RUN
3. Type in
CONTROL SYSDM.CPL
Or if that fails press+ +
CONTROL SYSDM.CPL
Well MS don't like huge changes which is handy for us...
Hey thanks once again guys..
UPDATE: Firewire has sorted itself out! I unplugged it then plugged the USB cable in (I have a caddy with both). I used that for a while, then removed the USB cable after ejecting it in wondows. When I shoved the Firewire back in it "fired" up straight away. Odd, but it works so I don't care...
The other problem is still there though. I cannot use any of the function keys.
I have to say that this was a problem when I first bought the laptop. I tried to install XP pro and they would not work then. To be honest I had not downloaded the utils.exe so that may have been something to do with it. lol.
Everything seems to work ok at the moment though, so I am not that bothered... well, the geek in me wants to know that everything is present and correct...
Anyway, as usual any help will be very welcome.
And you can still sleep with my sister, obviously
I think the dlls which control the fn keys might be within the original XP that Sony bundle.
Hmmm, maybe...
I have installed the Hotkeys utility and upon looking in the resultant directory i see this little lot..
HKres.dll
HKWnd.exe.manifest
HKWnd (application)
HKServ (application)
I may be way off base here, but should I stick those .dll 's in windows/system or windows/system32?
Punch me if i'm wrong
You are absolutely right Owen. Put those files here:
C:\Program Files\Sony\Hotkey Utility
I have additional files listed, these are:
HKSERV.EXE
SUEVENT.DLL
HKRES.DLL
PI.WAV
HKWND.EXE
VERSION.TXT
You may find that it is customised to your notebook so that is why I may have files you dont have and vice-versa.
It can't harm your system to install these to C:\Windows or C:\Windows\System32 - it just means a slight but negligible loss in disk space.
Delete PI.WAV if you don't want that pipping noise when you scroll with the wheel.