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    Newest official Sony Nvidia SZ driver?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by SirRobin, Feb 23, 2007.

  1. SirRobin

    SirRobin Notebook Evangelist

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    Hi!

    Is the newest available Nvidia driver for the SZ series version 97.54? Or is there a better version? I'm missing the display options for scaling and rotating...
     
    SirRobin, Feb 23, 2007
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    hjluvjj Notebook Guru

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    It looks like 9754 is the latest which just came out on Feb 21st.
     
    hjluvjj, Feb 23, 2007
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    Which SZ model is this for and is it for XP or Vista? I checked the sonystyle site and for my SZ160 the latest driver is from 1/30/07 and the XP version is still from 06.
     
    cosrocket, Feb 23, 2007
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  4. hjluvjj

    hjluvjj Notebook Guru

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    I have checked under SZ470 which comes with Vista. Since SZ160 and SZ470 shares same Nvidia GeForce Go 7400, you could use this on SZ160 as well if you are running Vista.
     
    hjluvjj, Feb 23, 2007
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    how do you get it to work on the sz160? when i downloaded the sz470 version and try to install it, it tells me im using the wrong verison
     
    cyman83, Feb 23, 2007
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    Please, try this. You should be able to find the "model.txt" under "Windows" directory. You could edit this file to "SZ470" and then make this file to read only. Sony driver setup will check this file during the installation. This is what I have used for many of my previous Vaios, but I can't say if this will work the same on Vista yet.

    When I receive SZ450 on Monday, I should know better.
     
    hjluvjj, Feb 24, 2007
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    theres no model.txt under windows because i did a clean install of windows.
     
    cyman83, Feb 24, 2007
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    I am pretty sure that there is a such file which setup program refer to. Once I get the SZ450(which is still in transit) Monday, I should know better.

    Apologies for providing incomplete info.
     
    hjluvjj, Feb 24, 2007
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    I appreciate this thread, so I thought I'd post my results.

    I have an SZ380P which also has a GeForce Go 7400. It came with WinXP (I missed the free upgrade by about 2 weeks...), and Sony has been painfully slow in releasing compatibility updates for Vista.

    I followed the instructions trying to install the 7400 drivers from the SZ491N (same card, comes with Vista, updated just a week ago). First off, YES there should be a Model.txt (as well as a Model.log) in the /windows folder, since I'm also using a clean install of Vista. Just changing it, though, and running the new driver DOES NOT WORK. Marking it as Read-Only doesn't seem to make a bit of difference.

    However, I had changed the Model.txt and deleted the (empty) Model.log, ran the driver update, and noticed something. After first running the file, but BEFORE clicking through it to where it detects the model, the software apparently runs a check on your hardware first and replaces the Model.txt with whatever it finds (obviously my invalid SZ381P status). Once it's done that, however, you can editing the Model.txt again, and that's all that the driver program apparently checks and rejects you on, and the driver update installed fine.
     
    sephiro444, Mar 1, 2007
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