I found a Japanese Lavie NEC laptop PC-lLF750/6 with a broken screen which is quite good enough to use with an ouside monitor but not worth the expense of buying a good screen for. I installed XP SP3 and it worked well except that there was some pixellation in the video. The VGA driver indicated there is conflict in three areas of I/0 . Now when I switch it on and click Fn +F3 to choose the ouside monitor it starts to boot but soon the screen goes black, althjough I could hear the XP chime starting up. Any advice on how to fix this would be welcome.

Possibly the drive is dead or the screen is no good any more.Try going back in Bios and change language.If it doesn't boot up possibly the drive or monitor is no good.If the laptop has a vga or hdmi connection you could try hooking it up to a TV or another monitor to see if it will boot up past the xp logo to test if the monitor is really broken or no good.

If this was installed as ajpanese machine then you really can't change much at all. You go to control panel and simply set the language to english. That will change menus and so on but it won't change anything that is hard coded such as programs and most of windows. The big problem is that Japanese kanji script is not really compatible with English type languages. Japanese Chinese and other asian typed languages are the worst ones. Something like french or German is much easier to do and generally you get more stuff to switch language.

Basically it boils down to if you want to change it over you really will need to re-install windows using a English install disk. Not being able to read the language you wil lhave a real time getting to the control panel and the restore disk or partition is probably Japanese. I have tried this but always found it was easier to use the english disk instead now. You just never get enough switched over to make it worth the hours to switch everything that will switch. There is always a menu or program that will be in the original language.

I have a Lavie e Lc500/3 model laptop.But few days ago monitor don't display anything but i connect another monitor with laptop external vga port that time monitor work properly.

hi i have a problem on language settings on my nec lavie c lc700j/6 ,,i change it on japanese and now i cant get it back ,,pls can you help me

I just wanna share information for NEC Lavie RX (LR700/8E) owners. 
The NEC Lavie models are distributed only in Japan. so you won't find references of this model in the NEC sites except in the Japanese NEC website. Unfortunately, the site is in japanese language only. Also, it doesn't provide all drivers needed (it is really bad support).

I have experienced how frustating it was to find my laptop (NEC Lavie RX LR700/8E, i bought it from my friend) modem driver. you may try that japanese nec website to look for the drivers, you'll only find the BIOS utility driver, LAN, VGA driver and some useless softwares.

NEC Lavie RX LR700/8E

Audio driver : soundmax AD198x ac97 v5243 (this is difficult to be found in internet) , it is provided in my nec driver cd but it doesn't work. If you have the same case, try to download soundmax AD198x ac97 v3890 (you can find it easily by google) , it works.

VGA : ATI Mobility Radeon 9600, it is popular and well known, so it should be no problem to find this device driver.

LAN : Intel Pro/100 VE network and UGJZ 11ab/g MiniPCI Network Adapter (wireless), they are included in my driver cd. they work fine. I think they can easily be found by googling.

Intel(R) Chipset Software Installation Utility/driver :
* Release: Production Version
* Version: 6.2.0.1005
* Target Chipset#: Intel(R) E7220/E7221
* Date: July 23, 2004 
includes :
- Core PCI and ISAPNP Services
- AGP Support
- IDE/ATA33/ATA66/ATA100 Storage Support
- SATA Storage Support
- USB Support
- Identification of Intel(R) Chipset Components in 
the Device Manager
it is included in the driver cd, and works well.

Memory stick and SD card driver : Ricoh memory stick controller and Ricoh SD Bus Host Adapter. Search of these drivers was quite frustating, but finally i got them. Try the similar device drivers for NEC versa E6000 (quite popular). But i've figured out that these drivers are quite easy to be found by searching in google.

Modem driver : This was the most frustating driver to search. first, by using Unknown Device Identifier, i was able to identify the chip (it is intel 82801dbm modem controller ICH4M). The japanese NEC website and my NEC driver cd are useless. so i tried to search by googling. after 2 weeks searching and investigating it further, i found it !. It is actually Agere Systems AC'97 Modem. You can get it by downloading the modem driver for NEC Versa E6000 or trying NEC Versa E6xx modem drivers. It works!. as additional info, the Hongkong NEC website provides drivers of many NEC versa model, i downloaded the files from the site. it is good site. or you may try googling it

Ok, i hope this information can be useful for you. see ya ....
   

look in device mgr and go the the maker of the sound and video chip try to find the drivers there. if say the audio controller is sis go to sis website and try to find drivers for the make and model thru them instead of nec.

The NEC Lavie models are distributed only in Japan. so you won't find references of this model in the NEC sites except in the Japanese NEC website. Unfortunately, the site is in japanese language only. Also, it doesn't provide all drivers needed (it is really bad support).

Audio driver : soundmax AD198x ac97 v5243 (this is difficult to be found in internet) , it is provided in my nec driver cd but it doesn't work. If you have the same case, try to download soundmax AD198x ac97 v3890 (you can find it easily by google) , it works.

The NEC Lavie models are distributed only in Japan.
You'll have to call NEC and find out US name/model for that unit. Or find somebody who can read Japanese. NEC support website only on Japanise.

Sir,
At the webpage there must a option to change the language...go through and try it.
Thanks Good Luck
Appreciate to rate as "Fixya"

The NEC LaVie series was only released in Japan. Direct driver support for this model from NEC is only in Japanese if you can read it. Your sound device for this model is 'Soundmax AD198x ac97'. You can do a search for the newest driver though, I found several links to it.