New laptop upped to win 7 home prem, bunch of q's

[psyko12]

Well the laptop is a Sony Vaio powered by AMD E-450 APU HD6320 320gb, upped ram 4gb.
The original package came with Starter 7 32bit and some bloat. Reformatted it to Home Premium <unfortunately it's 64 bit> and have mostly covered most device installs.

Having used the laptop before install, it has visual indicators for volume adjustment and brightness adjustment when pressing the Fnc + F keys.

Also only the Fnc + F keys for sound adjustment works, brightness doesn't change when pressing the function key plus the appropriate F key to adjust brightness.

Is there a way to get them back? Or it's a factory thing? <Haven't deleted the OEM recovery sector so I can go back to the default OS installed>

Sorry it's my 1st venture to mobile computing , have been on desktop eversince


Edit:
BTW Thanks in advance.

 

[INSTG8R]

Well if it is anything like my Acer the support page for your laptop should have 64 bit drivers available too? Could be your missing a Sony driver/application.

 

[psyko12]

Well if it is anything like my Acer the support page for your laptop should have 64 bit drivers available too? Could be your missing a Sony driver/application.

Well the strange thing is the support page:

http://esupport.sony.com

doesn't list my model VPCYB35AG .. and upon google search, it yields only 32 - bit software/drivers from sony itself <had to use main sites for separate components gpu, wireless, sound>

 

[INSTG8R]

Well it's not like 32bit apps wouldn't work of course. It probably is a factory thing I know my laptop had similar things like that when it was on it's original Vista install and of course had it's own "Acer programs"

Edit: While your right I couldn't find your exact model there either but I did find programs like these 2 which would probably be where those special functions came from.

http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/swu-download.pl?mdl=VPCYB35KX&upd_id=6524&os_group_id=5

http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/swu-download.pl?mdl=VPCYB35KX&upd_id=7111&os_group_id=5

 

[psyko12]

Well it's not like 32bit apps wouldn't work of course. It probably is a factory thing I know my laptop had similar things like that when it was on it's original Vista install and of course had it's own "Acer programs"

Edit: While your right I couldn't find your exact model there either but I did find programs like these 2 which would probably be where those special functions came from.

http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/swu-download.pl?mdl=VPCYB35KX&upd_id=6524&os_group_id=5

http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/swu-download.pl?mdl=VPCYB35KX&upd_id=7111&os_group_id=5

Well upon further googling, yeah my google fu sucks, I found this... But I don't know which ones are related to the features I miss.

http://www.sony-asia.com/support/download/475388/product/vpcyb35ag#

 

[INSTG8R]

Well if I was to guess I would say the Notebook Utilities might be the one.

 

[psyko12]

Well if I was to guess I would say the Notebook Utilities might be the one.

Will try that one, thanks for the quick replies, would the cam work if it used 32bit drivers or the drivers wouldn't install?

 

[INSTG8R]

There is no problems using 32bit drivers if 64bit aren't available.

 

[psyko12]

There is no problems using 32bit drivers if 64bit aren't available.

It seems it's not the cam that is missing, the unknown device is somewhat related to function keys.. Upon further googling I found this...
http://www.funys.net/2009/08/28/sony-vaio-function-keys-and-windows-7/

Hope this resolves my needs xD

 

[INSTG8R]

Yes that looks like it might sort it all out.