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Hi all!
First of all, thanks in advance to everybody that will waste the time helping me
I've got a TX3HP model, and I've recently get the Windows Vista Upgrade. I've spent all the weekend installing it, and it worked fine (well, a little bit slow 😞 ).
I've unplugged the power supply and everything went ok, but now, when It works only with battery, the screen switches off when passes 10 seconds. I can see the windows working, and the cursor shadow moves when I use the touchpad. The only way to switch it on is plugging the power again, and waiting a few seconds.
I think that is a BIOS upgrade problem, because it happens also when I try it in the BIOS menu, or in the InstantMode, only with the battery.
Well, I hope that anybody will help me. Thank you!!!
By the way, I forgot to say that I've installed the latest BIOS update, and I tried to go back to the clean XP install, and it doesn't work 😞
Sounds like the settings on battery power make the monitor brightness very dull. It's a power saving feature. If it is this, it can be fixed...
Go to Start > Control panel > Power options > Click "Adjust the display brightness" link on the left > then make sure the sliders are both the same on plugged in and battery.
Hope this helps. Good luck.
Lisa
Sounds like the settings on battery power make the monitor brightness very dull. It's a power saving feature. If it is this, it can be fixed...
Go to Start > Control panel > Power options > Click "Adjust the display brightness" link on the left > then make sure the sliders are both the same on plugged in and battery.
Hope this helps. Good luck.
Lisa
You can do it the same way as I mentioned before on control panel with XP Professional too. I have XP Pro on my other laptop. Hope it works for you.
Lisa
Just for reference on XP it is...
Start > Control panel > Power options > VAIO Power management tab > Change in there.
If it's not clickable, click advanced in the power management tab and make sure the "Enable VAIO power management" is checked. Go back and adjust as needed
Lisa
You can do it the same way as I mentioned before on control panel with XP Professional too. I have XP Pro on my other laptop. Hope it works for you.
Lisa
By the way, I forgot to say that I've installed the latest BIOS update, and I tried to go back to the clean XP install, and it doesn't work 😞
By the way, I forgot to say that I've installed the latest BIOS update, and I tried to go back to the clean XP install, and it doesn't work 😞
Hi Michael Knight,
Welcome to Club Vaio..
If the recovery partition has not been deleted you could try pressing F10 repeatedly when starting you vaio, this normally would start the recovery process and would restore your Vaio back to the original XP OS and applications..
Hi Micheal,
The recovery does not change the BIOS..?
What version BIOS do you currently have installed, is it R0022N3..?
Unfortunately I cannot find the earlier version, so I guess is not available for download, you could contact vaio-Link and ask them to supply you with the older BIOS, a phone call is probably the quickest method..
Are the function keys working now, as you mentioned earlier that that you tried to change the brightness through the hotkeys and It didn't work..?