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    My Vista Install Steps - Thanks MobileHavoc, and Others

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by twiga, Mar 7, 2007.

  1. twiga

    twiga Notebook Enthusiast

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    LET'S KEEP THIS THREAD **SHORT** SINCE MOBILEHAVOC HAS THE ULTIMATE VISTA UPGRADE THREAD SO FAR.

    Alright, I love my second install (very stable) and here are the steps. Three things I DID NOT INSTALL at this time: Camera, TPM/SmartWI (BIOS Disabled), UPEK Protector.

    One thing that I borrowed from XP drivers but without rhyme or reason was the Notebook Control Device Driver and Notebook Control Utility. Not sure if it's psychological but I swear that fixed my slow boot time and HD Busy during startup.

    Anyway, here are my steps.

    Before Anything Intel Graphics Driver (Stamina Mode).exe
    Before Anything NV Driver (Speed Mode).EXE
    First Vaio Utils SOASNU-01298604-US.exe
    Second Vaio Shared Lib SOASSL-A1298203-US.EXE
    Third Vaio Event Service SOAVES-01302701-US.exe
    Fourth ALPSPointer.EXE
    Fifth Sigmatel AU STDAUD-01291504-US.exe
    Sixth TI Flash TIDMSC-00967112-US.EXE
    7a. HDD Protect SODOTH-01368000-UN.exe
    7b. WinRAR and run setup.exe HD Protect SOAHDD-01280702-UN.exe
    Eighth Utility VideoShared_3.1.00.10240.zip (Is this even a necessary file?)
    Ninth Alps BlueTooth_5.00.10_logo.zip
    Tenth Vaio PM SOAVPM-01298010-UN.exe
    11a. XP Sony NB Control DD.exe
    11b. XP Sony NB Control.EXE
    Twelfth Vaio Command Ctr SOAVCC-01304902-UN.exe
    Thirteenth Windows Mobile Device Ctr drvupdate-x86.EXE

    P.S. Google Calendar Sync works with Vista and I would give anything to get rid of Blue LED for BT when "disabled". No matter what I do, even disabling the drivers in device manager, the BT LED stays on all the time. Any ideas?

    Also, deleted the pesky ISBMGR.exe from startup.

    File Links: Nice Links by GaberHakim

    File Links: Notebook Control/Device Driver
     
    twiga, Mar 7, 2007
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  2. VietNinjaXTC

    VietNinjaXTC Notebook Geek

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    you did a clean install huh? not an upgrade from XP?
     
    VietNinjaXTC, Mar 7, 2007
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  3. Mobilehavoc

    Mobilehavoc Notebook Consultant

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    If the blue LED is on for BT that means BT is still on. Disabling BT via Windows doesn't turn off the BT on your laptop.

    If you follow my instructions you won't have this problem... ;) :D
     
    Mobilehavoc, Mar 7, 2007
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  4. rfii

    rfii Notebook Consultant

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    how come mobile havoc has 19 steps and you have 17?
    you didnt install the camera, smartwi and UPEK, but that brings the total to 20...
     
    rfii, Mar 7, 2007
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  5. twiga

    twiga Notebook Enthusiast

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    I am more of a novice "fooling" around whereas MobileHavoc is an expert.

    Although, I am impressed you counted the number of steps as well hehe.

    Thanks for replies, I will go back and read your post MobileHavoc but is there a quick and dirty "turn BT OFF" since I seem to be stuck with that. Thanks again.
     
    twiga, Mar 7, 2007
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  6. Mobilehavoc

    Mobilehavoc Notebook Consultant

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    I'm no expert...but there are two options for turn BT Off...

    You can use the wireless switching utility or install SmartWi. Both will individually allow you to turn the BT/WLAN either off or on independently. If you want to use WWAN you need to go with SmartWi but otherwise go with wireless switching utility.
     
    Mobilehavoc, Mar 7, 2007
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  7. totono

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    i dont think the order matters. i installed vista ultimate clean on my fe 690 and all the drivers at random order and everything works just fine. cheers!
     
    totono, Mar 8, 2007
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