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    Just bought a Sony VGN AW190 but problem...

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by tyson201, Jan 4, 2009.

  1. tyson201

    tyson201 Newbie

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    I bought the laptop from Newegg and they shipped it with Vista Home Premium. I use the laptop at work so I purchased Vista business. However, when I install vista business, the drivers from Sony's website don't seem to work (especially the network ones). I am unable to locate any network in the device settings.

    I called Sony and they said they do not have an official drivers cd for the AW190 since it is a newer laptop. They can't even confirm if Vista Business is compatible with AW190! All they told me to do was re-install the drivers in a certain order but that did not work either.

    Does anyone know what I can do? Is the AW190 Vista Business compatible? Has to be, right?

    Any help would be much appreciated!

    Thanks.
     
    tyson201, Jan 4, 2009
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    tyson201 Newbie

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    *bump* anybody?
     
    tyson201, Jan 5, 2009
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    panzer06 His Imperial Majesty

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    If you created the restoration DVDs before blowing away the original config be able to extract the driver from those disks. This will work if you got the same (64or32)bit version of each Vista OS.

    Cheers,
     
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    tyson201 Newbie

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    so if i restore back to home premium (using F10 feature), I can create restoration dvds? Then re-install vista business. Is that correct?
     
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    panzer06 His Imperial Majesty

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    On my FW290 putting the recovery DVDs in the drive offered the option to install Sony programs and/or drivers. However, I have no idea how it will react to your Vista Business install. All you can do is try. I assume both versions of Vista are 64bit.

    Best of luck,
     
    panzer06, Jan 5, 2009
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