I got a computer from a friend that has been having a keyboard and mouse issue with their sony vaio laptop. External devices do not work (however the keyboards function keys work, along with the sony vaios assist/web/vaio buttons). The touchpad is set to on vai the function key + F1. There are a lot of solutions that I've found but they all seem to be missing the fact that you cannot get to the settings for anything since neither the keyboard or mouse work both on-board and external. I'm assuming my friends computer had an update for windows 8, and caused driver incompatibility. That seems to be the case with almost all of the problems related to this with windows 8.
All I want to accomplish is restoring the computer though. I believe restoring it back to factory will resolve the driver issue and then deny updates automatically until this issue is resolved. Is there a way to get to the restore partition before the computer boots? I've also read that the UEFI took over the standard bios accessibility. But I'm not sure if there is a way around that on a sony vaio. I should be able to use the keyboard and mouse inside the trouble shooter.
Any ideas on what I can do?
All I want to accomplish is restoring the computer though. I believe restoring it back to factory will resolve the driver issue and then deny updates automatically until this issue is resolved. Is there a way to get to the restore partition before the computer boots? I've also read that the UEFI took over the standard bios accessibility. But I'm not sure if there is a way around that on a sony vaio. I should be able to use the keyboard and mouse inside the trouble shooter.
Any ideas on what I can do?