Unable to find XP drivers/which hardware my VAIO has

I have the Sony VAIO VPCEB2M0E, and I put XP on it, but I need the drivers for both LAN and WLAN. I already have everything else. All Sony have on their site is SATA drivers.

Anyway, I found the video and audio drivers, I Just need LAN and WLAN although it's also asking for Base System Device, Broadcom Bluetooth Device, PCI Simple Communications Controller and SM Bus controller, but I google'd those and I don't think I need any of them.

One other thing, My Computer Properties is showing Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU M 350 @ 2.27GHz 927MHz and it feels extremely sluggish. Is this something that can be fixed?

 

So you've installed the chipset drivers and the turbo-boost drivers?

 

It has the i3 350M which doesn't support Turbo Boost

When I search for HM55 chipset drivers, I get Windows XP Embedded for developers or something

Edit: I found the drivers for WLAN (AR9285)

http://www.atheros.cz/download.php?atheros=AR9285&system=1

CPU is still running at 927MHz though (edit: I realized this is due to throttling)

One other question, is the trackpad actually always this awful, or do I have a faulty one? By awful, I mean having to move my finger 4+ times to get from one side of the screen to the other, and tapping (instead of the left click button) working 1-2 out of 5 times? I really wish I would have gone with a Toshiba, would I be okay to return it just because the Trackpad is unusable?

 

Try to set your power management from "Portable/Laptop" to "Home/Office Desk" and see if your i3 stops throttling down. I recently noticed that my Vaio FZ290's Core2Duo in WinXP changes speed when its set to Portable/Laptop.

Let me know if that works.

 

I tried that, as well as "minimal power management" but it still shows 927MHz. I can live with that anyway.

Thanks

 

You really are swimming up stream, trying to install XP. Do you need XP to support a particular piece of software or some other compelling reason not to use Win7?

I ask because a better solution might (emphasis on MIGHT because I don't know your circumstances yet) would be to keep Win7 and run XP as a virtual machine. I think your machine supports this and XP runs almost as fast in a VT enabled virtual machine as it does natively.

I have some software the requires me to run XP and I run it as a virtual machine with great success.

Gary

 

exactly what I was thinking.

 

I don't like Windows 7, it offers no improvements over XP than looking pretty, which doesn't bother me.

I have XP installed anyway, I'm just trying to return it because of the crappy touchpad and I'll get a Toshiba like I should have originally

Windows 7 isn't bad, not like Vista was but XP does everything Windows 7 does but leaves pretty much all of my other resources for whatever I want, plus it's not as sluggish as Windows 7 (although even XP is with this crappy touchpad )

 

that depends on what you do with your computer.

I do suspect that you are going to have alot more driver issues with any more computer produced in the last year. MANY advanced drivers for motherboard chipsets and storage controllers were never written for XP.

 

Yeah that's true but if everything works, that's good enough for me

 

It offers a vast improvement in the very thing that you think is it's problem, memory management. You are under the mistaken assumption that because Win7 uses as much memory (what you are calling resources) as it can, there is little left for "whatever I want". That's just not the case at all. It will instantly free up as much memory as you need for those tasks, whatever they might be. Read up a bit on the technical aspects of that and I think you'll find Win7 really does do a much better job. Beyond that there are a lot of other improvements, not the least of which is its handling of wireless networks.

Gary