Vista to XP with sony. where do i find drivers

I would like to go to vista with the sony VGN AW125j. this is 64 bit vista that is on it currently and it has 4 gig of ram. I cannot seem to find drivers for my laptop. ive visited sony site and googled quite a bit. Does anyone have any drivers or ideas to help me complete this task. thanks.

 

still cant find them.

 

Hi Brett,

May I know why you want to switch to XP? Vista x64 is fine and better then XP, isn't it? Well, anyway it is up to you...
You might try this site and the Driver Detective, but probably the chances to find XP drivers are none.
http://www.drivershq.com/Drivers/Sony/VGN-AW/9818/40022/Models.aspx

Cheers...

 

Most manufacturers, with the possible exception of select business models, have discontinued use of XP and dropped their software support for it.

 

XP runs faster than vista.

I use multiple monitors very often and because of this.

I can't use maxivista which is a great multimonitor tool that will help me out alot since i play poker for a living and i use multiple monitors. it would be nice to not have to connect to my serial and hdmi always. I have a 9 inch laptop in addition to my 18.4 inch sony laptop . id be able to use the 9 incher for dual monitors or just an extra monitor given the situation.

Also, Vista 64 does not work with Synergy which is another multimonitor platform.

In addition, Dragon natural speaking 10 does not work with vista 64.

 

so is it possible to find alternative drivers that may work for this cpu?

 

so is it possible to find drivers that work with this laptop or is this a waste of time?

 

Not really, no.

Although, you *could* try using Vista drivers in XP; whether this will work is hit-and-miss from driver to driver, so I would not recommend it. A Vista video driver, for example, would never work in XP due to the reworked WDDM.

Also, it seems that Sony's support page does offer 32-bit Vista drivers; is your software compatible with that? Not even when running in compatibility mode?

 

im not sure if i know what you mean by compatibility mode. i have trouble with installation typically.

 

Compatibility mode allows Vista to imitate certain characteristics of XP; basically it allows older programs to run in Vista.

 

Windows XP is not officially supported in your laptop.

 

By thew way - you can instal software in an XP "shell" where Vista virtulizes Xp - this is required for SAS.

 

i have vista running at 64 bit , but in my computer c/program files(x86)

i have the 86 . does that mean anything?

 

In Vista 64bit there are two program folders...C/Program Files
as the native 64bit applications and the C/Program Files (x86),
which holds the 32bit applications, so you can run 32bit programs
on 64bit version of Vista.