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    z690 blu ray driver for Win7 64bit

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by HexxeH, May 8, 2009.

  1. HexxeH

    HexxeH Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi guy, I running a z690 with win7, and my blu ray drive isn't visibile, don't have the correct driver for the Mata bd-mlt uj232as, and the z590 driver from sony's site won't install because its not a z5-series. Any advice? or anyone have the driver from there Vista64bit? Thanks.

    If anyone is curious, Windows7 is really smooth and quick compared to the Vista64bit, and only running 60 processes after everything got installed.
     
    HexxeH, May 8, 2009
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    ngvuanh Notebook Deity

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    I am running 64 bit Windows 7 7100. I also have Blu-ray drive UJ232 and it work fine without install driver.
    Actually, you don't have to install any driver for optical drive. It's automatically installed by operating system.
     
    ngvuanh, May 8, 2009
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    Mujja Notebook Evangelist

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    Also running Win7 x64 with the UJ230 in a VAIO AW and didn't need to install any drivers for the drive.

    Use "Universal Extractor" to extract the driver from the Sony setup file and install it manually.
     
    Mujja, May 9, 2009
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    HexxeH Notebook Enthusiast

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    That's wierd, in my devide manager I have an exclamation mark, since win7 was installed. Since it's still early in my setup of the Z, I might still format and reinstall because I think I can still lean up the background processes.
    I'm using 7100 too.
     
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    HexxeH Notebook Enthusiast

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    I just tried Universal Extractor on sony's UJ230 Firmware Setup form a different vaio(MTFOPD-00163533-US.exe http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/swu-download.pl?mdl=VGNSR290J&upd_id=4089&os_id=34)
    But there weren't drivers inside that file under all five forms of extraction. Should I try a different file?
     
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    Mujja Notebook Evangelist

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    As ngvuanh said earlier you shouldn't need to install a driver for an optical drive. Are there any other unknown devices in your Device Manager, e.g. check the IDE/SATA controllers are installed correctly.
     
    Mujja, May 10, 2009
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    HexxeH Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks guy! Ya, the Blu Ray was native to Win7, I reinstalled win7 and it was there... must have gotten messed up while I was blindly installing almost all the sony apps. Still early in the setup process, but everything looks great!

    I love this computer, looking forward to new gpu drivers, but don't really have a need for them yet. And I'll upgrade the 2 SSDs in the next year or so.
     
    HexxeH, May 10, 2009
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