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    vista exspress ugrd-ux280p anybody else having issues?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by starstreak, Apr 7, 2007.

  1. starstreak

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    I tried it two ways.

    1)I did the upgrade. While thing went as smooth as I thought it would. BUT I would get BSOD whenever I used the ***m buttons. The astericks is the letters "Z-O-O" I have no idea why it thinks that's a bad word.

    2)I did a clean installation. Not as smooth. It installed the business edition, then I had to rerun the dvd and it tried to install all the vaio stuff. A few HOURS later it finally finished installing. Now it tells me my battery isn't working right and I need to hibernate. And no matter how many times I reboot, it tells me that. And I noticed that wifi didn't work. it thought the hardware switch was set to off, which it wasn't.

    So I'm doing a system restore now, and going to try a upgrade again. The first time it had all my junk on it, so maybe that was part of the issue. dunno.
     
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    Did it. it worked! Whew. Only thing that I see that bothers me is my cpu is normally above 20% in use.
     
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    Clean install Vista and Battery is not working right because missing the Sony Notebook control.

    Sony Notebook Control
    ftp://download.sony.com/US/pc/SOAOTH-00445800-US.EXE

    If you do the upgrade from XP to Windows Vista. you don't need to run the above package.
     
    VGNxxx, Apr 8, 2007
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    btwI know what caused the #1. It seems if I install this pen tablet from waco, it'll cause a crash
     
    starstreak, Apr 8, 2007
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