Hi Y'all,
Friend of mine bought a Sony VGN-N21S, which only came with Vista pre-installed. Ran too slowly, so he wanted XP instead, but of course Sony hadn't posted the XP drivers for this laptop. No problem...![]()
The previous model, the VGN-N11S (pre-loaded with XP), has almost exactly the same hardware - same motherboard chipset, graphics and sound cards, etc. I downloaded the XP drivers for this earlier model directly from Sony, burnt them onto CD and installed. Only problem was the sound card popped up as "PCI ..." and couldn't match the right driver. So I downloaded the latest driver from Realtek, and everything carried on without problems. Every possible device is now up and running with the appropriate drivers.
I would suggest that if you want to dump Vista for XP on your new laptop, but Sony won't give you the XP drivers, look at the previous version of your Sony laptop with the closest matching specifications. You'll probably find they will work.
Stephen.
Installing XP on a Sony Vista laptop
Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Steve24, Jun 25, 2007.