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    What Have I done??!!??!?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Poppakap, Jan 18, 2006.

  1. Poppakap

    Poppakap Newbie

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    My plan was to clean swipe the main partition with a seperate Windows XP CD, install the drivers, etc.

    I hit F8, saw the main partition, put XP on it, it took me through the Xp set up promts, everything looked fine. On restart the viewable screen is less than half of the display, I'm not having much luck installing drivers, I keep getting "lanquage unknown" errors.

    What do I need to do?
     
    Poppakap, Jan 18, 2006
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  2. Poppakap

    Poppakap Newbie

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    Alright, I'm at least partially retarded. The screen issue was just resolution settings. Still having trouble on the drivers though.
     
    Poppakap, Jan 18, 2006
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  3. DaCheese

    DaCheese Notebook Consultant NBR Reviewer

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    hehe, ya, that stuff always takes more time then you think it will...."k, I just reinstall everything on my computer....I will be done in 2 hours or so......16 hours later....ARGH"
     
    DaCheese, Jan 18, 2006
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    wildcats Newbie

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    Hi,
    I just installed XP pro on my new S580,but after following the instructions ,I couldnt properly install the audio driver.I get the message "Realtek driver enabled but not functioning properly".I dont know what to do...iam stuck...I tried to install the driver after i installed sp2..but to no vail....Let me know if everything works fine for u....I plan to do a complete reinstall again this weekend..all the best
     
    wildcats, Jan 19, 2006
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  5. heywood

    heywood Notebook Enthusiast

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    I assume you are trying to install drivers from recovery CDs/DVD. The driver/application installer needs the Sony shared library to run. The Sony shared library should be on your recovery CDs/DVD, named something like SOASSL-xxxxx.EXE. If not, you can download it from Sony on another computer.
     
    heywood, Jan 22, 2006
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