Sony Vaio Fw21M Volume Hotkey/S1 Button Problem

[Billo1187]

Hi all, just received my first ever vaio (fw21m) through the post, laptop is ace but just got one little niggle, would be great if anyone could help me out!

When I want to change volume using the hotkeys or press the S1 button to get to the Dolby control centre, I get a bleep from the computer to show me how loud the volume is! This is getting really annoying, especially when I'm in the middle of watching a film. Anybody got any ideas how to turn it off?????

Cheers, billo1187

[Thalamus.]

Hi billo1187,

welcome to Club VAIO..

The bleep sound you are referring to is called pi.wav, this can usually be found in C > Program Files > Sony > VAIO Event Service.

Instead of simply deleting the pi.wav file I would suggest renaming the .wav file extension to something else . Then if ever you want to restore the bleep sound you can just change the name back.

If you can not find the file in Vaio event service try doing a system search for pi.wav.

[hugpache]

Hi billo1187,

welcome to Club VAIO..  

The bleep sound you are referring to is called pi.wav, this can usually be found in C > Program Files > Sony > VAIO Event Service. 

Instead of simply deleting the pi.wav file I would suggest renaming the .wav file extension to something else . Then if ever you want to restore the bleep sound you can just change the name back.   

If you can not find the file in Vaio event service try doing a system search for pi.wav.

Sorry for being slightly off-topic but Thalamus would u say that something is wrong with the Event Service if I told you my VAIO refuses to change display brightness and doesn't show that pop-up when you change volume?

My CS shipped with Vista 32 which I don't really like so I formatted, installed Vista 64 and had to find all the drivers and Sony applications by myself.. I posted in the portuguese forum about that but didn't get an answer yet.

(I've attached the screenshot showing which VAIO utilities I've got installed)