Sony Vaio bootup question

[MaskedCarrot]

Hey guys,

I just got a new Sony Vaio VGN-NS190J from Best Buy recently. It is a really nice laptop and I like it, but I have an issue that I was hoping someone might have an answer to.

For starters I made the recovery disks, and would love to do just a fresh install of Vista only, but those darn recovery disks don't have just windows to install without doing the whole recovery process. I couldn't justify going out and buying Vista when it already came with my laptop.

I removed most of the Sony crap from the system, but everytime I boot the computer it will sit on the Welcome screen for about 15+ seconds or so and then when it gets to the desktop the spinning cursor for about 5 seconds.

I can't figure out what program or driver is making windows sit there like that. I checked the registry and nothing in there is suspect, but it is driving me crazy.

If anyone has a Vaio and has an idea what program or driver is causing that, please let me know.

 

[hoffstetter]

You should get a vista dvd from a friend or bittorrent. You have a license on the bottom of the laptop. Use that for a fresh install and throw those restore disks away. My vaio came extremely bloated but it worked great after a fresh install and all the downloaded drivers installed.

 

[DeathFromBelow]

I tried to clean up Sony's mess, but I ended up wiping my VGN-SZ360P and doing a clean install. "Find" or borrow a DVD and get it over with.

It may be better with newer models, but it was a pain in the ass to get the FN buttons working on my laptop with a clean install of Vista. I figured out that you need to install the Notebook Control Driver, Sony Programmable IO, Sony Shared Library, and VAIO event service (in that order), at least with the SZ series.

 

[hoffstetter]

Yeah, I just fresh installed, downloaded and installed everything from sony's driver page and everything worked great. Even the function keys.