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B@stard

I have a VAIO PCG 7M1M and I am having a few problems with it, I have done a search of the forum but I am unable to find if this has been covered before.

The machine is about 18 months old, running on XP and around 4 months ago I had to have two new ram sticks installed. This seemed to stop the issues I was having then, locking up – crashing – screen going blank etc. But now the sound has developed a fault.

I leant my laptop to a friend for a few days and when it came back the sound was all crackly and it also dragging. At first I thought she had somehow blown the speakers but attaching external speakers and headphones produced the same problem. When I burn a CD the terrible quality is also on the CD when played on an external player.

I have gone through all the help topics on the machine, scanned for viruses, done system checks but still the problem persists. In addition to this problem the machine can sometimes take up to 15 minutes to boot up and can just run really slow even when I just have one application running, i.e. Word, this can mean when I type the letters catch up with my typing about 10 seconds later.

There is plenty of memory on both drives and the machine says these do not need to be defragmented.

Can anyone offer any solutions before I pay a ridiculous amount for getting it looked at professionally? I am certainly no expert but I think the sound card is shot and/ or the main board.

Any help very much appreciated.

Col

Thalamus.

The drive was damaged so badly that a recovery disk was unable to be made so it does not have the vaio opperating system installed, that I can live with but the scroll on the touchpad isn't working. I think (so does the guy that fixed it) that he missed a driver off for this. I cannot find where to get it from, if it is indeed a missing driver. To save me going back can anyone point to a place where I can download this?

Hi Col,

the Alps touchpad driver should be included in the FS515B's Original Drivers Package, use the following link to download the: FS515B's Original Drivers Package

B@stard

Thanks for that, I have downloaded from the link, which is the driver on it as there are a lot? and how do I install it?

Cheers

Thalamus.

Place the mouse drivers that you've downloaded in to a folder ie C:\Drivers\Pointing.

Go to Start > Run type devmgmt.msc and press OK, Device Manager window should open, double click Mouse and Other Pointing Devices.

Is there a mouse listed, if so, right click once on the mouse and select properties.

Select the 'Driver' tab and click on Update driver.

A new Hardware Update Window will appear, select Search for the best driver in these locations, remove the tick from floppy, cd rom and browse to the location of the downloaded Alps driver folder to included it in the search and click next.

Wait for the driver to install then click Finish, a System Settings Change window should now appear prompting you to Restart your Computer and click Yes to restart.....