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    VGN-TZ90S Vista to XP, Drivers?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Rupan, Jun 27, 2009.

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    Sorry if this was answered, I can't seem to find a thread detailing it.

    I'm trying to downgrade my wife's VGN-TZ90S from its default Vista to XP. I made a separate partition and installed XP then fixed the bootloader so it would load dual boot properly. The problem I'm having is I cant get a lot of the drivers working. For instance the graphics seemed to be straight forward, but none of the seemingly suitable intel gfx drivers work and when it tries to detect the integrated gfx via their website it says it doesn't recognise it.

    Can anyone help me with getting all the hardware working in XP?
     
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    I'll try find some of the drivers on that esupport page. I tried a similar sony international page and when I tried to install it just said it isn't the same model and wouldn't let me go further. As for the chipset/gpu from Intel, I tried downloading from their site but when trying to install it said they weren't suitable, so I tried to let the Intel page auto detect the hardware but it came up with no results. :(
     
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    Thank you Padmé, the graphics driver worked, however I've yet to get the rest of the various drivers working (audio and some other bits and pieces). Tried the tz3 ones from the page you linked but said they didnt match, I'll try another TZ model
     
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    I tried all the T series drivers on that first link, none would work :(

    All the parts it still doesn't detect according to the device manager translate as:
    High Definition Audio Bus Audio Device (the installer finished but didnt seem to be installed and still prompted there was new hardware)
    High Definition Audio Bus Modem Device
    USB Device (possibly the integrated camera, though camera driver is in inf form and doesnt seem to match)
    Video Controller (Was able to install from a different vaio driver but has a caution sign in device manager, and doesn't seem to actually be working)
    Video Controller (VGA *something*)
     
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    Anyone able to help? Still stuck :/