SONY VAIO

Thursday, June 16, 2022 
Found this on Thursday morning.  Could prove useful.  Though the topic was about my laptop product, one of the guys posted a password recovery tool here. Here is support for my SONY VAIO model number, VPCEB42FX.  According to punkncat, he says that I should pick up the originally included install discs.  I cannot find them.  I may have them, I just can't find them.  What do they cost at SONY?  SONY explains that there are no downloads for my laptop.  

That reply comes from a March 15, 2014 reply: Hi Mike! You can purchase the recovery media kit from our Parts and Accessories department.

Priority Service: 1-239-768-7691. [I have yet to call this number].  

Phone Hours:  Monday to Friday, 8am to 12pm, Midnight EST

Saturday & Sunday, 9am to 8pm, EST. 

From this page, I found this: 

It is possible to create your own Recovery Media on most computers. Instructions can be found in your product manual.  Sony Electronics is no longer permitted to sell system recovery media for VAIO PCs that shipped with operating systems released prior to Windows 7.

If your computer shipped with the Windows 7 operating system (or later), a Recovery Media Kit can be purchased through Encompass Supply Chain Solutions at https://sony.encompass.com or 1-866-779-5153.

If your computer shipped with any operating system released prior to the Windows 7 operating system, please contact Best Buy for VAIO PC repair and recovery options at 1-800-433-5778.

Tuesday, June 14, 2022

First, the model number of my SONY is VPCEB42FX.  It can be found at the bottom right of the screen's frame.  Got a message from SONY's site.  It reads, "Unfortunately, there currently are no downloads for this product."

I am trying to get updated downloads to two internet drivers: 1) Intel Wifi Link 1000BGN, and 2) MARVELL YUKON 88E8059 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller.


Hawaii Five-O

Hawaiian Eye

Baywatch

Charlie’s Angels

Jake and the Fatman

The MacKenzies of Paradise Cove.

Magnum PI

I would have thought that Fantasy Island was filmed in Hawaii, but no, that was filmed at the Arboretum in Arcadia and not in Hawaii or any other seaside resort. 

Here is the general page for SONY downloads.  And for Windows 7 SONY VAIO.   

I went to the Contact page and clicekd on computers and got this message:  

 

·         Premium Support for Sony VAIO® PC products provided by Sutherland Global Services ended on November 30th, 2020 at 5:00 pm ET.

·         Live agent support is not available for VAIO PC products

·         This information only applies for VAIO PCs manufactured and sold by Sony Corporation (look for the Sony logo).
Assistance for VAIO PCs manufactured and sold by the VAIO Corporation is available on their web site at: http://us.vaio.com

·         If you live or purchased your product outside the U.S., go to Sony Global home and choose your country.

January 3, 2018
Download for Sony driver.

Sunday, October 16, 2016 

Intel ® Driver Update Utility 2.6 and that Setup & MS Security Essentials Updates NOT WORKING

1.  When I try to run an Update on my MS Security Essentials, I get a message that reads “Virus and spyware definitions couldn’t be updated.” Beneath that heading, it reads “This app couldn’t check for virus and spyware definition updates. Check your Internet or network connection and try again.  Click Help for more information about this problem.

2. I went to run an Intel ® Driver Update Utility 2.6 and that Setup, too, Failed. The error message I got on that was “One or more issues caused the setup to fail. Please fix the issues and then retry the setup. For more information see the log file. 0x80070642 User canceled the installation.”

 

Saturday, October 15, 2016

The MS Word version on my Sony VAIO, Windows 7 is Word Starter 2010.  

From SONY and Microsoft, I copy the 2 devices onto a flash drive. When I go to upload them onto my Sony VAIO I am able to run then download them onto Vaio Windows 7. But when I go to run them or open them, I get a message that

Network Adapters are:

Intel ® WiFi Link 1000 BGN

Marvell Yukon 88E8059 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller

This is the SONY network device shows up in my thumb drive as MRDETH-00225727-0042, while the Intel ® WiFi Link shows up as PSMT64 Intel R WiFi Link, a name which I gave to it.  

Thursday, August 18, 2016

Was told that the Marvel driver "won't do anything because it's related to the ethernet port [and] not the Wi-Fi module." 

Wednesday, August 17, 2016

When working with How-to-Geek and you want to upload anything, you must use the following formats: jpg, jpeg, png, gif.  It does not accept odt. Bill Myers, on June 10, 2016, was extremely helpful.  He explained that in Libre Office that with the desired document opened already I need to choose FILE, then EXPORT, and make sure that the .jpg file type is selected.  Since .jpg was not an option and .jpeg was, I chose .jpeg, which seemed to work. Another member suggested using this site, Cool Utilities


My most recent discussion at How-to-Geek.  August, 2016.

Friday, August 12, 2016

This is driving me crazy.  

I found Hardware Ids in the Details tab after right clicking on the Marvell Yukon 88E8059 device.  An acronym popped up, PCI.  It means Peripheral Component Interconnect.  

It's short for Peripheral Component Interconnect, a local bus standard developed by Intel Corporation.  Most modern PCs include a PCI bus in addition to a more general ISA expansion bus.  PCI is also used on some versions of the Macintosh computer.  

All of this is a bit much for the reward. ISA stands for 

Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) is a retronym term for the 16-bit internal bus of IBM PC/AT and similar computers based on the Intel 80286 and its immediate successors during the 1980s.

So there's that. 

The drivers on my Sony VAIO are:

1)  PCI/VEN_11AB&DEV_4381&SUBSYS_9071104D&REV_11

2)  PCI/VEN_11AB&DEV_4381&SUBSYS_9071104D

3)  PCI/VEN_11AB&DEV_4381&CC_020000

4)  PCI/VEN_11AB&DEV_4381&CC_0200  


Tuesday, August 9, 2016

I hate SONY support.  Their website is atrocious!  But I need them as at least one source.  

SONY PHONE

1-888-476-6972.  

239-768-7671.

HOURS

Mon-Fri: 8-Midnight

Sat & Sun: 9-8pm.


TWO PROBLEMS TODAY

1.  Intel(R) My WiFi Technology Adapter not found.  

2.  Wireless Switch OFF.  Please locate the wireless switch on your notebook and turn the switch "ON" to continue.  The site says go to VAIO. Then their site says go to the esupport at SONY.  I swear these idiots make things up as they go.  


Driver #1 at SONY's esupport. Intel WiFi Link 1000 BGN Wireless Network Adapter driver. 

Driver #2 at SONY's esupport 



FIXING MISSING DRIVER IN SONY VAIO
[Wednesday, February 24, 2016]
Sony VAIO, Windows 7
Model # VPCEB42FX
Okay, having the same problem with the wi-fi device on my VAIO as I had on my Dell.  Remember, to update drivers, network adapters, and so forth, go to the Sony site and download your particular driver. 
Model # VPCEB42FX  |  https://images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/gadgets/proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2Fesupport.sony.com%2Fgraphics%2Fsite%2Fbullet_arrow.gif&container=blogger&gadget=a&rewriteMime=image%2F* change model...
This model is also known as: 
PCG71318L
VPCEB42FX/BJ 
VPCEB42FX/T 
VPCEB42FX/WI

[Thursday, March 3, 2016]
TWO NETWORK ADAPTERS
Two Network Adapters on my Sony VAIO:  
When I run the 2nd one, I get this message, "This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action.  Please install a program or, if one is already installed, create an association in the Default Programs control panel."

HowtoGeek pointed me in this direction.

First, I got the Code 31 Error.  
Also, got Error 711

This yellow exclamation mark means "Missing Driver."

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