I recently bought a new Sony VAIO laptop (VGN-FZ145E) withVistaHome
Premium pre-installed. Unfortunately, I need to be able to access a
domain, and from what I have read, I can only do this withVista
Business or Ultimate.
First, how can I upgrade my Sony to either of these versions? Can I
use Microsoft's Anytime Upgrade, or do I just need an upgrade disk?
Second, I contacted Sony's tech. support to try and help me out, and I
was told (multiple times in an effort to mask Sony's accountability)
that drivers were not available for anything other than Home Basic or
Premium. Can someone verify this for me? If this is true, does that
mean I risk damaging my new computer by upgrading regardless? Also, if
true, at what point is Sony expected to release drivers for these
essential versions ofVista?
I'm kind of at a loss right at now - my lack of domain access means
that I can't access my work. Any help would be appreciated.
- bgetson
Here is the solution what you are looking.
First try to make sure that you are not going to use this laptop at
office or some other business environment because if thats so, you
cannot connect any of such VPN client over VISTA plateform. There are
some otherway around for this but thats another story.
well dude, I have been to the same what you are suffering from now.
First tip: Dont you be worried about voiding your warranty by whiping
the whole system and preinstalled software packs. Just do it because
sony corporation has well managed such incidents by providing a
special backup disk partition which you cannot access in your system,
though if you try doing so you are goin to end up losing your recovery
data, so keep yourself intact from that.
Secondly: Well, sony drivers and their so called world wide support
service really suck in every part of the world but in the end courtesy
goes to the land of Royal Kingdom , hehe, only the UK drivers are not
locked to particular models and hence it means that you can install
any of the driver providing that you are having the hardware names and
brand of same kind. Otherwise, if you try downloading the driver back
from US website the drivers are quite freaky, you may end up in
desperate situation installing third party drivers on your system.
So do in this way.
Whipe up ur system
install Windows Ultimate edition no other but ultimate otherwise you
would be making a purchase again even after upgrading to business/
basic for few bucks. you gotta spend now.
now log on your system, if you have another one, otherwise i am hoping
at this time that much of the internet and network devices are
functioning . go to this website
ftp://ftp.vaio-link.com/pub/OS/VistaUpgrade
now find something that sounds near to your model number, look for
some generic catogory of your model, sony categorized their models
into Series like i bought VGN-C21CH so I downloaded C series driver
for my laptop. You gotta use mind at this time.
Once the drivers are download unzip install and enjoy.
There you go with your system
now you must be facing a problem of Fn Keys, yea you are right,
Function keys are not working , well its not that there is some
specific driver missing in your driver queue list but sony vaio needs
you to install driver in some proper order, i followed the order
written on their website, even then it didnt work for me, so l am not
recommending you some particular sequence for the drivers. its at your
descretion besides, a word of advice, play around with shared library,
utilities and sony vaio update setup files, keep traversing one of the
way will definitly allow you to have your Keys back to life.
On the other hand if you are not into an enthusiasm to have the same
factory fresh look of your laptop and you can comprise on the FN Keys
than dude there you go, you can still play around with brightness and
other power options through mobility options given in the Vista
control panel.
If you have got some question, do let me know, since I have been
through all these frustrations and I can imagine how it feels sitting
at the edge of chair and desperatly hoping for one of the drivers to
be compatible from sony vaio's official website. hehe.
Enjoy and Cheer Up.
In the end word of advice : Look if everything happens right and you
end up having a clean n complete installation at your click of a mouse
button then life is too simple to live , hehehe there should be some
challenges to make yourself proud of being an acheiver, once again!
ehehhe
In the end sorry for the spelling mistakes , I was in a little hurry,
Since my boss is quite near to me.
Bye Bye.