sony.com - getting drivers for Windows 7 Pro, not Home Prem

Hi,

I just got an F. Like it.

It came with Win 7 Home Premium and I clean installed Win 7 Pro after I got it.

When I enter my Model number on Sony.com Drivers and Support, I can only see Win 7 Home Premium driver and no way to trick the website into showing me Win 7 Pro drivers.

Any way to do this?

Thanks!

CLIFF NOTES: I bought a Sony with 7 Home Premium and now need 7 Professional drivers

 

The drivers are the same dude. There is no difference between Home Premium and Professional in terms of needed drivers. Hell, I used Vista Home Premium drivers for my 7 Pro installation.

 

I think they are all the same? I always use either Home or Pro for my Ultimate.

 

ok, I know that's the case, but the chipset drivers for instance threw up a wrong OS warning and remain yellow! in my device manager

most of the other ones are working ok

EDIT: actually the install says they install ok, then right after windows warns me that they may not have installed correctly

Specifically I'm trying to fix Base System Device in Device Manager

 

No difference. In fact, with Vista and Windows 7, the OS is the exact same for all versions (except Enterprise), the only difference is what features are disabled.

An upgrade from Home Premium to Professional means entering a new key and rebooting. That's it -- not a single new or changed file to install, unless you switch between 32-bit and 64-bit. (You've made sure you aren't downloading 64-bit drivers if you're running 32-bit W7, or the other way around?)

Anyhow, if you're missing Sony drivers, I suggest you restore to Home Premium, and then enter your new key for Professional. Clean install is a bad idea unless you have all the vendor drivers before you start.

 

What is this one?

Base System Device

 

The OEM hard drive is sitting on a shelf. I installed an SSD and clean installed retail OEM Win 7 Pro. This is not how I normally would have done it, but it is how I did it this time.

I'm using Sony.com to get the Sony drivers and software.

Everything is working... so far.

I just got a few "not installed correctly warnings" and I thought Sony was giving me the business.

 

Can you post a HW ID? And maybe what bus it's on... PCI-e or USB? I suspect it's the turbo-boost driver.

 

I bet it's MS card reader

 

It's Ricoh PCIe Memory Stick controller.

 

Bingos.

Installed all the readers and mem stick and we're good.

my bad for not being methodical...

I like this laptop so far.

 

That was easy.

 

Where do you find the Turbo Boost Technology drivers for this series? I don't see them listed on Sony's site. I installed a clean install of Windows 7 Professional and I need these drivers.