Vaio TT (TT11VN/X UK Model)

I remember when installing Windows 7 from scratch I had big time issues with drivers and getting eveyrthing to work. After weeks, I got it to work but I do not have that kind of time anymore. My computer needs a fresh install again and I was looking at this Sony Vaio VGN-TT Drivers Restore Recovery CD/DVD on eBay (end time 23-Feb-11 02:02:53 GMT)

the ebay listing claims that it will install all my drivers for me? anyone want to give me their opiionion?

Also whats the disadvatnage of me restoring my laptop to vista and upgrading because i know everything will work then?

thanks

 

The drivers you need can be downloaded from the Sony website. It would take about 15mins max to download them. They have downloaded these drivers for you from the Sony website and put them onto a CD.
You of course would still need to run these drivers.

Are any of these drivers actually for W7?

I don't know what you had problems installing before? Was it the WWAN?
Did you want to install 32bit or 64bit?

Even if you don't do a clean install which i would recommend doing there are some W7 drivers that you should install.

If you have an internet connection i tend to think this is not worth it but if you think it can help save you time i can see the appeal also.

 

Hey Rachel, your always a great help.

When I last installed windows 7 (fresh install) I had issues with WWAN and I randomly installed drivers and eventually got it to work. I'm on 64 bit.. it came with vista 32 bit... ahh thats another problem it self... I'd have to do a fresh insstall erghhh but I don't want to spend days getting everything to work

Also I just noticed, you have 8gb on your vaio tt? I thaought max was 4gb? or may be on my model? I have tt11vn/x?

 

8GB is the max ram for all TT models. Some TT1 owners have upgraded to 8GB.
I wrote a mini guide here how to get the Option wwan working with a 64bit OS.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/6912102-post32.html
The TT4 EU model provides all the other drivers you need. This model came installed with W7 64bit.
http://support.vaio.sony.eu/computing/vaio/downloads/preinstalled/index.aspx?l=en_GB&m=VGN-TT4

 

Hi Rachel you mention that the TT's all handle 8GB max ram however I only see max Ram at 4GB every other place, is there a bios update to get this to work or VT enabling or should automatically take 8GB? Thanks

 

As to the BIOS update i don't know but there have been more than one TT1 owner on here who have upgraded to 8GB of ram.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/5492600-post19.html
May be search the TT owners thread for 8GB of ram and you'll see other TT1-TT2 owners who have done this upgrade.
The chipset supports up to 8GB and Sony hasn't restricted the BIOS.

My model came with official 8GB support and shipped with BIOS version R2021M4. If you're running this BIOS or more recent versions then rest assured you don't need to do anything more. What I can see that Sony did differently was to switch to 8500 1066mhz ram as opposed to 6400 ram but they both run at 800mhz anyway. May be there was a lack of 6400 4GB sticks on the market when the TT was released or Sony just under reported what the TT was capable of.

 

It's probably better off that they did switch to 8500 as I did some pricing and seems like the 6400's are close to double the price in the same size. Good to know about Sony releasing it with 8GB though I had doubts as some others mentioned Win7 x64 only sees 6GB max, etc, etc.
Oh well, now I can spend more money on Ram