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    Downgrading FW21E with FW190 drivers?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by fajv!, Dec 24, 2008.

  1. fajv!

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    Merry Christmas!
    I'm planning on getting a FW21E vaio but i cant stand vista so naturally im going to downgrade. Luckily i found the complete set of XP drivers for the FW190 and what i read somewhere on here is that all FW models have the same hardware save for CPU,HD and RAM. Is this statement true and if so, should i be able to do it with the FW190 drivers?
     
    fajv!, Dec 24, 2008
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    Bump bump!
     
    fajv!, Dec 25, 2008
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    hendra Notebook Virtuoso

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    Yes but you have to use 3rd party files extractor, such as Universall Extractor http://legroom.net/software/uniextract to bypass model checker. Otherwise, the files will refuse to install.
     
    hendra, Dec 25, 2008
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