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    Vaio z555dn with bluray, need bluray driver for win7

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by ghostcyber, Jan 12, 2011.

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    ghostcyber Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi, I just sold my old vaio to someone, and the bluray driver is now an issue, does anyone know where to download the proper driver for the vgn-555dn bluray driver for windows 7 64bit?
     
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    There is no specific blu-ray driver as such. Windows should detect the optics as a BD-RE drive, period.

    If you sold the machine with a clean install, it may require the correct chipset driver for the laptop itself. Search for 'clean installing windows 7' above; there as numerous threads that will get you started.

    In my case, there were about 20 or so drivers / controllers (for the Fn keys) that I installed to get the machine to a workable state. You can get it working for less, though you may have to sacrifice some functionality.
     
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    I know the driver installed in vista, but in windows 7 it only ever showed up as a dvd drive.
     
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    is there somme way to check the drive name? like in the bios? I don't have the computer in front of me so it's a little difficult telephony sorta.
     
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    The BIOS (the default Sony ones at least) will not show you the drive model, let alone whether it's a blu-ray capable one.

    A possible step to CONFIRM the model number:
    - Get the new owner to right click COMPUTER (from START)
    - Click on PROPERTIES
    - In the window that pops up, look to the upper left and click on DEVICE MANAGER
    - Under DVD/CD DRIVES, there should be your blu-ray drive model (in this case, I'm assuming an UJ232as)

    So I now know that the drive is being detected. As you say, if Windows shows a DVD drive instead of a BD-RE DRIVE, and you've recently clean installed the OS, then have you actually installed all the neccessary drivers? Most notably, the firmware parser and the chipsets?

    Mind you, a Microsoft driver is there in Windows 7. I've bought my UJ232 as a seperate piece and personally took out and replaced my old DVD drive. The moment I booted into Windows 7 it installed a new driver and done; all ready to go. For confirmation sake I even rented out a movie (Terminator 2 cause I'd never seen it) and watched it without issue.

    If installing the drivers don't solve the issue, you MIGHT have to disconnect AND reconnect the CMOS battery. But that's a guess; not sure if that will help but a hardware-level problem such as this... It's possible.
    ...either that, or try clean-installing W7 again...?
     
    5ushiMonster, Jan 13, 2011
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