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    Atrocious driver support from Sony

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Superczar, Mar 17, 2007.

  1. Superczar

    Superczar Notebook Consultant

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    Ugh..despite having heard that Sony is terrible whn it comes to driver support, I went ahead and picked up a Vaio C22 (Asia Pacific region model within the Vaio C series)) that came pre-installed with Vista...
    Since I am not much of a Vista Fan (AT least as of now), the first thing I did was do a Win XP Clean install (like I have done on a countless number of Dell/compaq/IBMs before)

    Unfortunately, I had no ideas what I am getting into...
    Apparently Vaio drivers come only in the form of Model locked EXEs...i.e. if I wanted to use a Vaio C13 (XP model) Sound driver for the same hardware on my C22, it wouldn't work (the only difference between a c13 and a c22 is preloaded XP vs Vista)
    Since the C22 came with Vista pre-installed, I do not foresee Sony releasing XP drivers for it ever....
    Does this mean I have no other choice but to run Vista on my new machine?
    Or are there generic drivers available....

    I could get The intel chipset, graphics and wireless to work...perhaps will be able to get the sound up & running...but i think it's kinda unlikely i'll be ever able to get the Fn keys, brighness control etc. up ...

    :(
     
    Superczar, Mar 17, 2007
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  2. hehe299792458

    hehe299792458 Notebook Deity

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    The best things to do right now is to go to each manufacturer's website and search for the drivers. Remember, a 7400 Geforce Go driver from HP is the same as the one from Sony, so also try other computer companies
     
    hehe299792458, Mar 17, 2007
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  3. starstreak

    starstreak Notebook Deity

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    thats not the "fault" of sony. They did that on purpose to seperate the models. Other companies do it too. This is one time I would'nt blame it on poor driver support on Sony. You bought it with Vista.
    Now off the rant box... Yo may want to call sony and tell them youbought a full version of XP and want to install it on the Sony. And for sony to send you an update disk. They may do that. But if the serial is locked from bios, then maybe not. That would suck.
     
    starstreak, Mar 17, 2007
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  4. nickcerda

    nickcerda Newbie

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    After you start the driver install when it asks you to accept their contract thingy, look for a file in C:\windows called model.txt. Open the file and insert the name of the model you are using and hit save, then continue to install the driver.
     
    nickcerda, Mar 17, 2007
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  5. dhinchic

    dhinchic Newbie

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    sony has put the xp drivers on its asia pac site.download that and tell us if that works.same thing sony is not doing for cr serries which is new model and only vista loaded.
     
    dhinchic, Sep 17, 2007
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