Sony Vaio CR Questions

Hey,
I am using my cr notebook with Xp installed. I installed all the drivers, and most of them work fine...

But, I have problem with my mic. I definitely works, but I need to speak very loud into it for someone to hear me, whereas in Vista it worked perfectly fine.
Is there a solution for this or should I just give it up?

Man, I never thought I would get more battery life with vista than with xp...
In fact that shouldn't be true, but that's just the it appears to be on my cr.

I can go to 3:15 with vista
and 2:40 with xp

I am the only one expriencing this?

P.S. by the way I installed the vaio power management, which works...and still the same results after configuring the maximum battery profile...

Will we ever get the brightness work on our cr?

 

Hello - I'm new here. I'm also received a cr notebook recently and we installed windows xp drivers on it.

The microphone is the biggest issue for me right now. I'm not sure if it's a hardware or driver issue. We've tried the European drivers, Chinese drivers and the updated high definition audio codec drivers from the Realtek site.

The mic works but I have to speak so loud to get the audio meter to register one bar in my voice messaging applications.

Can anyone help us out with this?

PS: we also have the brightness issue as well.

 

I have perchased cr320e, but I can not find the nic, audio or mass storage driver. I'm sorry I can't help with the mic driver, but I would love to find out where you obtained the drivers I'm looking for. Thanks in advance for any help!

 

I installed all the drivers from this site:
http://www.sony-asia.com/support/dow...subpage=detail

So, you will get everything working except AV-MOde, proper functioning of MIC which I described on the first post, and brighness if you have intel x3100 video card. You will also have less battery life with XP.

That's all I could do, again, if there's someone who knows how to fix any of the problems I listed, please help.