Vista EU Drivers

I havent tried them yet..

ftp://ftp.vaio-link.com/PUB/OS/VistaUpgrade/

 

Interesting are the new BIOSes:
ftp://ftp.vaio-link.com/PUB/OS/VistaUpgrade/BIOS/

 

vaio control panel and power managment works fine on ux180p

vaio power managment is in > edit plan settings > change advanced power settings > vaio power managment (tab)

also I have updated tx4 bios from R0031N3 to R0022N3

 

Thanks for the link ........

I used the Realtek Audio driver for my Acer laptop on Vista. WORKS FLAWLESS.

My Acer Realtek driver worked and I was able to control sound, but the Realtek software did not work.

This software is actually better Thanks again.

 

Okey i have a question.is it work wid all models sony laptop or just for specific models?

 

http://www.vaio-link.com/downloads/os/vista/upgrade.html

 

Hmm, wonder what the bios upgrades are for?

 

I think they removed battery saving/high performance setting in bios

 

"Windows Vista drivers and utilities are in development and will be released by the end of March 2007."

http://www.vaio-link.com/downloads/os/vista/index.asp?site=voe_en_GB_cons

 

with any of these drivers/bios etc etc, is there an order that that should be installed.

for instance would i install the bios then get the drivers?

 

from http://www.vaio-link.com/downloads/os/vista/upgrade.html
"*You must first update the BIOS before installing this video driver"
"you must first install "Sony Utils Utility", followed by "Sony Shared Library" and then install any remaining utilities."

 

It seems bios update also increases video memory to 224MB on tx4 (it was 128MB)

 

oh yes. vista say that i have 319mb graphik memory on my sz. 255 mb shared memory and 64 mb dedicated... many thanks sony

 

Is this drivers for upgrade from XP Professional to Vista or i can use this drivers for clean install of Vista?

 

I wonder if it's possible to install these vista drivers and utilities on windows xp first. If they would also run under xp it would be a smoother upgrade to vista, if you intend to upgrade instead of a clean install ...

 

No, i think is not possible to install this drivers on XP because they are for Vista. I think is possible to use this drivers after upgrade from XP to Vista

 

So, i try and install drivers on clean install of Vista Ultimate.
But Camera still dont work.
Any ideas guys ?

 

The drivers work for US Verson of SZ. Of course, I did not try the BIOS update.

 

for the camera, sony say you should install the latest win xp driver. tell us if it works.

 

does anybody know if drivers should be installed first followed by sony utils, shared lib and utilities or drivers at the end?

 

same problem here. there is a problem with path in camera utility installer.

the solution is:

1. go to %temp%
2. clean all temp files
3. run the SOACCU-01363002-UN.exe (camera utility from sony)
4. look immediately in %temp%, for a short time there is a new folder with extracted camera utility install files.
5. copy the folder to desktop
6. run setup exe in folder and enjoy

edit: before you install the camera utility you have to install the winxp camera driver...

 

it works on ux180p.. thank you
btw i have used camera drivers for vista

 

is this the driver or only utility for the camera? SOACCU-01363002-UN.exe
where to find the working vista driver for the camera?

 

SOACCU-01363002-UN.exe is camera capture utility
I got the ux180p camera driver from http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/swu-download.pl?mdl=VGNUX380N&upd_id=2424&os_id=29

 

Hm... Anyone tried updating their SZ1/2 bios with the SZ3 bios?

Wonder what's the difference...

 

hello! this is my first post
i have recently installed vista on my sz1xp but i have a problem
How i can do to set the volume and mute keys (FN+F3,4) and also FN + F5,6 for the screen setting???
thanks

simon

 

simapls, install from the Sony Utilities in this order:
1. Sony Utils DLL
2. Sony Shared Library
3. rest....

 

Does any of you have an opinion about which drivers and Sony Utilities are essentially necessary and useful? Does the Vaio Power Management include any useful additions to the built-in Management? i.e. what does the Sony thing add? Is the Toshiba Bluetooth stack more useful than the MS Stack?

I want a clean system and want to avoid any unnecessary overhead. What do you think?

 

VAIO power management definitely includes additions to the built-in management . After I installed it, my fan doesn't spin as fast and even stops sometimes (vs. full blown fan speed before). I also get an estimated of 30min extra usage.

The Toshiba stack adds some profiles that are missing in the MS stack. For example, stereo headset. If you don't need that you can stick with MS stack. I use my MS stack fine for mouse/keyboard/phone tether.

 

Are people installing all the applications from this list?

ftp://ftp.vaio-link.com/PUB/OS/VistaUpgrade/Applications/

 

Installing these drivers is a slow and painful process.

But I did it. The main issue is some XP drivers need to be installed, but there is no installer for them, so you have to select the right unidentified device and choose 'update driver'

Here's what I did for my SZ2VP:

1. Install Vista.
2. Go to http://www.vaio-link.com/downloads/os/vista/upgrade.html
3. Go to BIOS at bottom, download and update bios.
4. Download all the drivers listed for your model - this will take a long time because FTP site is very slow.
5. Ignore all drivers marked 'Vista Inbox'
6. Ignore SonyNC and SonyPI, these are installed with Vista
7. Go to device manager, and if you have the SOny SD card reader installed, then select 'Unknown mass storage device' and go to 'Update Driver'. Put in Vaio Recovery Disc 2 into CD-rom drive (if you don't have it, you need to download the 85mb driver package for windows xp from vaio-link), and select vaio applications\drivers\flashmedia and press ok. Reboot if necessary
8. Go to device manager and select 'unknown device' and go to update driver. This time using the driver package/recovery disc, select drivers\camera\vgp-vcc2
9. Install all the drivers you downloaded. The touchpad software warns that newer drivers are installed: ignore it.
10. Download and install all the Sony software listed at http://www.vaio-link.com/downloads/os/vista/upgrade.html in order.

 

What is this BatteryChecker Utility all about?
Is it necessary?

 

mr.disk, thank you for the idea Now the camera works bacause of your help Thank you again
But i forgot, is HDD Protector works? Because i try to install the utilitiy for HDD Protector but the system says that the computer has no HDD Protection???? Under XP has HDD Protection....

 

It's an utility to identify whether you have a genuine Sony battery inserted. If you don't it won't let you use the computer and asks you to replace with a genuine battery =)

 

This is a joke isn't it?

 

No it isn't...

 

I've got everything working on my Vaio FE series laptop except for the duo memory stick reader. Any ideas on how to install this?

 

http://www.uploading.com/files/FAMO41XU/TI_FlashMedia_Installation.zip.html

 

I have an FE11H and have updated the BIOS, then Nvidia drivers, then the installation of Sony Utilities (from http://www.vaio-link.com/downloads/os/vista/upgrade.html), in the order on the list. Everything seems to be working fine EXCEPT the screen brightness (FN F5/F6). All I get when pressing these buttons is the notification (below) going only from one bar to two, and the screen brightness not changing.

Any thoughts? Thanks

 

You need to install the applications from this directory first

ftp://ftp.vaio-link.com/PUB/OS/VistaUpgrade/

Install the Sony Utilities and Shared driver first out of the list.

Then install all the stuff from the upgrade list.

 

Thank you very much!

 

Anyone noticed a problem with writing? I'll be writing a post or something in word and the cursor sometimes will have moved to somewhere else in the sentence.

Any ideas? Virus scan was clear. I've done a clean install.

 

My experience of installing Vista Business on my SZ3VP/X using the EU drivers / utilities provided above:

What I did first was uninstall all Vaio utilities and drivers from my XP Pro installation (getting rid of audio / video drivers etc, GPU switching utilities, FN key utilities, basically anything with Vaio in the title). Installed the upgrade of Vista Business.

When installation completed, I installed all the drivers from the EU drivers page first. ie Alps Bluetooth, Pointing GP, Sigmatel, synmsico, etc. All of these I ran as administrator, just in case. Also ran the BIOS upgrade. When I installed Vista I was in Stamina GPU mode, so the Intel integrated graphics was instaled fine. As the NVIDIA card wasn't thus active, I did not yet install the NVIDIA drivers.

After all the drivers were installed (which seemed to mostly install correctly; no real way of knowing), I installed all the utilities. I installed Sony Utils Utility (ASNU in the filename) first, then Sony Shared Library (ASSL), then installed everything else. Lots of these didn't install properly. More about that in a while.

Last thing I did, I used the hardware switch to select the Speed GPU setting, restarted the computer, then installed the NVIDIA drivers.

So, after all those shenanigans, the following seem to work:

-Camera / Microphone is working as usual, although Cam utility didn't install (who needs it?)
-Speed / Stamina switch works fine, and both GPUs seem to be fine.
-Power management seems to work fine, but with fewer options than in XP (can only choose Adaptive or Level 1 to 5 in CPU fan control, can disable iLink, Audio etc, or can swap between 32bit or 16bit colour depth. No other options available)
-Memory Stick Slot is AOK (icon and all in Computer).
-Bluetooth is grand.
-Function keys for Brightness, Volume, Mute and Hibernate are all fine, although there seems to be a slight delay in the "beep" sound, which is a little distracting.
-Fingerprint scanner is working fine; in fact, works much much better than the older version (scans finger first time nearly every time). Also, now supports Firefox 2.0 and multiple tabs in IE7. Doesn't seem to support finger-swipe Windows Login yet though.
-Vaio Control Centre installed fine, so from here could select what the S1 and S2 buttons do, what the lid opening does, etc. Good stuff. There still seem to be one or two features missing from the XP version though. For example, no option to slow CPU fan speed with one of the S buttons.
-HDD protection says that its working fine, from the Control Centre, but I'm not in the mood to shake my Vaio to see if its lying or not ;-)
-Hibernate and Sleep work fine, but when in sleep mode the WLAN light is still on. Is this a Vista thing or a Vaio issue?

Stuff that doesn't work:

-Wireless switch utility is AWOL; hardware switch works fine but there's no option to have WLAN on with Bluetooth off. Not mission critical though.
-Seemingly no support for Vaio Update.
-Infineon TPM (Trusted Platform Module) installed ok, and the hardware was detected, but it could not Authorise. Not sure why. This prevented the fingerprint scanner software from working too. Not exactly what good this TPM stuff is to me anyway, so I uninstalled it, and the finerprint software began working straight away after.

Notes:
-Windows Experience Index is 3.2 at the moment, seemingly crippled by the NVIDIA graphic performance. Thought it would have scored higher, but what the hell.
-It might be just my imagination, but I think the Power Management runs my SZ a good bit cooler than the XP version did. I have no way of checking the temperature though because Mobile Meter doesn't work on Vista.

Hope this was of help. Hope to hear from other SZ users as to how their installation went. As it stands, I'm probably going to go back to my XP installation for the time being (cheers, Acronis TrueImage), but I'm sure Sony will have ironed out all the above issues by March.

Dave

 

Clean install is probably the way to go.

You need to extract the setup exe with winrar or similar and run it or see elsewhere in this thread.

What other options were there on XP?

Works for me. There's an 'other credentials' button on the login screen.

I have the option to map to:

mute
sleep
hibernate
max brightness
external display
multiple monitors
vaio help
vaio power management viewer
cpu fan speed
launch app

By default s2 is mapped to reduce fan speed and s1 to vaio help. Works fine.

I don't have this option, and it's not working (a very minor nudge was enough to set it off under XP).

WOrking ok for me.

Seems ok to me. It's only a shared memory GPU, it's really not a very good graphics chip at all. I'm not sure if I should just stick to the built-in intel graphics.

This was on an SZ2VP.

The only thing I'm really missing is the hard disk protection.

 

first install the xp version and update it with vista version. it works fine on my tx4.

also there is a new guide from sony.
"This document provides the steps and information necessary to perform a Clean Install process to install Microsoft Windows Vista operating system on applicable VAIO® computer models. The process varies by computer model and may take 1 - 2 hours to complete."
http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/support-info.pl?template_id=1&info_id=172

I have two problems. When I close the lid vista goes to sleep mode but the wireless LAN light stays on, and when I use memorystick for readyboost it causes high load for a couple minutes after waking up from sleep mode, I think reading/writing on MS cause that.

 

Does the BIOS Upgrade for the SZ increase the amount of shared RAM the GMA950 uses as it is the case with the new TX4 BIOS?

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?p=1781662&postcount=12

 

Hello, I have a FE Vaio and have everything working, but when I close the lid the computer automatically goes to sleep, even when the "do nothing" boxes are check in the power management (vaio optimized).

Does anyone have any suggestions? I have tried reinstalling the power management utility several times but no luck. Thank you for your suggestions!

 

Make sure the touchpad is off when you're typing. There is a delay setting the the control panel if you installed the touchpad drivers.

 

Thelawnet:

First I just want to say that your guide was PERFECT. Very handy! I just did a clean install of Windows Vista Business Upgrade and followed your guide step by step. I verified each driver you had listed against the drivers available on Sony's site and they were exact. The only differences were that a lot of the drivers simply weren't available at sonystyle.com, so I downloaded them from you.

I have a VGN-SZ110 and everything works perfectly now.

I have ONE question:

My Alps pointing device works great... but every time Windows Vista starts up, it gives me a popup window asking "Do you want to run this file?". It goes through 2 or 3 of these windows, and the files are all from Alps Electric for my pointer. There is a checkbox that I have UNCHECKED which says "Always ask before opening this file". But they still keep coming up every reboot.

Any ideas?

 

I fixed this issue by turning off user account access control (or whatever it's called).

Now I have an issue with my sound becoming crackly in certain programs (mainly games like World of Warcraft)... any ideas?