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    FZ downgrade from Vista to Xp woes

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by kennyh, Jun 8, 2008.

  1. kennyh

    kennyh Newbie

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    I just tried to downgrade from Vista to Xp Pro Sp2 on my Vaio FZ445D/B.

    I slipstreamed the drivers for the FZ19 with nLite into my XP Pro SP2 cd found at this link:
    ftp://ftp.vaio-link.com/PUB/OS/XPDOWNGRADE/FZ19/

    everything went awry when I tried to install XP. I got three errors in the install process for files that the installer couldnt copy:

    ntshared.chm
    wbdbase.nld
    advapi.dll

    I selected the option to ignore the inability of the installer to copy these files. Then the installer finally quit with the message that ADVAPI.DLL is not found.

    any ideas what I did wrong? as far as I have read the drivers for the FZ series are all pretty much the same, esp the SATA drivers.
     
    kennyh, Jun 8, 2008
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  2. shoelace_510

    shoelace_510 8700M GT inside... ^-^;

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    I'm not sure what you did wrong, but it might just work out better if you installed xp and then got your drivers straight from Sony. Just my $0.02 though...
     
    shoelace_510, Jun 8, 2008
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  3. kennyh

    kennyh Newbie

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    I tried this again with another slipstreamed cd, this time with just the SATA driver. XP installed ok this time, but there is lots no working. I need drivers for:

    audio device on high definition audio bus
    ethernet controller
    mass storage controller
    modem device on high definition audio bus
    network controller
    sm bus controller
    video controller
    video controller (vga)

    I have to hunt around for these, there arent any details about drivers in device manager.
     
    kennyh, Jun 8, 2008
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