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    Sony Vaio VGN-Z90S video card drivers

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Godzi, Feb 25, 2012.

  1. Godzi

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    Hello !

    I have a Vaio laptop sony VGN-Z90S but I got some problems with the video drivers. I'ld like to change it but I cannot find it anywhere...

    Any ideas ?

    Thank you !
     
    Godzi, Feb 25, 2012
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    urgiv Notebook Consultant

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    intel or nvidia?
     
    urgiv, Feb 25, 2012
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    here is what ccleaner tells me about my laptop :

    intel core 2 duo CPU T9600 2,80 ghz
    4.0 GB RAM

    Mobile intel 4 series express chipset family


    ( my laptop is japanese, that s why I ve a hard time to find proper drivers)

    my problem is since I reinstalled the system via the recovery disk, all the s like controling the brightness of the screen do not work anymore, the stamina/speed is not working and when I use photoshop, things such as the animated zoom that uses open GL doesn t work...
     
    Godzi, Feb 25, 2012
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    ( but on the computer, a stickers mentions "graphics by nvidia")
     
    Godzi, Feb 25, 2012
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    urgiv Notebook Consultant

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    OK

    if you reinstall whit original recovery disk all drivers and app has to be there

    but for me looks you reinstall only OS (win7)

    drivers are here Sony : VAIO VGN-Z5 drivers | Download drivers and updates for VGN-Z5

    for brightness and Fn keys have to instal:
    Sony Shared Library
    VAIO Event Service

    BTW here in this forum is mentioned X-times than for future read more


    last Q : it been this laptop opened?
     
    urgiv, Feb 26, 2012
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    thx for your time, sorry did nit read that much the forum.

    btw, my OS is vista, not 7 and your link is about the VGN-Z5 s windows 7 updates : (

    Oh yeah, this laptop s been opened and used many times ^^
     
    Godzi, Feb 27, 2012
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    this is already plugged, I remember that this function got disabled the last time I ve reinstalled the system via the recovery cds...
     
    Godzi, Feb 27, 2012
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    Metsn Maiku Hama Yokohama

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    U can install drivers from any version of VGN-Z. The only problem...I suspect you have 32bit version of WinVista...am I right? In that case you need to use 32bit version of those drivers and there are not many possibilities...
     
    Metsn, Feb 28, 2012
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