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AR11B vista compatible?

tsmetjen — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:45:35 GMT

Hi ,

i'v downloaded and run 'windows vista upgrade adviser' program from the windows website.
But it keeps scanning the system, and does'nt give any result.
I've tried stopping antivirus and firewall programs, but no result so far.
I have the latest drivers from the VAIO support website.

So, is my notebook not vista ready?

Re: AR11B vista compatible?

kee-lo_ — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:48:34 GMT

Vista is going to be a memory hungry OS, so I'd suggest at least 1GB of RAM (where does MS get off?) and your A series should be more than capable of handling Vista

Re: AR11B vista compatible?

tsmetjen — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 20:03:50 GMT

Vista is going to be a memory hungry OS, so I'd suggest at least 1GB of RAM (where does MS get off?) and your A series should be more than capable of handling Vista

i have already 1.5GB of RAM and a GEFORCE Go 7400 (full HD 1080 ready with hdmi/hdcp) graphic card. Already working with a pioneer plasma 436XDE HD through the hdmi connector.

still don't know why the upgrade advisor isn't working

Re: AR11B vista compatible?

frannys — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 05:43:13 GMT

Get it on,just make sure you have drivers at the ready.Vista will configure most things on the installation.

Re: AR11B vista compatible?

kee-lo_ — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:39:33 GMT

I think you'll be more than ready for Vista

Re: AR11B vista compatible?

tsmetjen — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 20:17:59 GMT

I think you'll be more than ready for Vista

i've tried the beta version and it doesn't work

Re: AR11B vista compatible?

kee-lo_ — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 14:19:21 GMT

In what way, missing drivers?

Re: AR11B vista compatible?

tsmetjen — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 20:48:44 GMT

In what way, missing drivers?

I'v installed Windows Vista Beta on the d partiton. At startup of vista I get a black screen, even in safe mode.
I'm not to familiar with drivers:smileyblush:

Re: AR11B vista compatible?

tsmetjen — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 13:13:47 GMT

Vista Ultimate RC2 build 5744 is running on my VIAO:smileygrin:

some problems to deal with ;:

no sound, although vista has drivers for digital audio
no eject button for the dvd

Re: AR11B vista compatible?

andrewb — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 16:03:14 GMT

Hi, I had the same sound problem with Vista RC1 on my Vaio VGN-AR11S. I fixed it by downloading the updated SigmaTel Audio Driver from Vaoi-Link, at http://www.vaio-link.com/downloads/info/info.asp?l=en&url=Downloads/ST/D/AUD/STDAUD-01129106-UN.exe&ip=STDAUD-01129106-UN.htm and following the installation instructions on that page. The volume and mute buttons on the laptop keyboard work OK too.

Re: AR11B vista compatible?

tsmetjen — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 07:07:32 GMT

Hi, I had the same sound problem with Vista RC1 on my Vaio VGN-AR11S. I fixed it by downloading the updated SigmaTel Audio Driver from Vaoi-Link, at http://www.vaio-link.com/downloads/info/info.asp?l=en&url=Downloads/ST/D/AUD/STDAUD-01129106-UN.exe&ip=STDAUD-01129106-UN.htm and following the installation instructions on that page. The volume and mute buttons on the laptop keyboard work OK too.

ok, thx a lot; this works for me too

still have to find a solution for the eject-button of the dvd

Re: AR11B vista compatible?

rjhmills — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 11:40:12 GMT

Message for andrewb: I have just read on this thread that you have installed Vista RC1 on your AR11S. I too have an AR11S and am interested to hear more about your experience installing RC1.

Did you have problems only with the audio drivers (btw thanks for the fix), or have you had issues with the nVidia 7600 Go card like others have referred to? Anything else I should know about that didn't work?

Also: did you do an in-place upgrade over XP, or did you do a clean install? If you did the latter, have you managed to install the various apps (eg Roxio, and other Sony apps) that were pre-installed on the machine under XP?

Many thanks in advance.

Richard

Re: AR11B vista compatible?

rjhmills — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 00:24:07 GMT

Message for tsmetjen: I too am experiencing the "no sound" problem in Vista RC1 on my AR11S. I have tried installing the latest Sigmatel drivers from the vaio-link website but they won't install - I get an error message saying "Device object not present".

Did you not get this error message? Any ideas how I can get round it?

Thanks for any help!

Re: AR11B vista compatible?

tsmetjen — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 08:22:15 GMT

Message for tsmetjen: I too am experiencing the "no sound" problem in Vista RC1 on my AR11S.  I have tried installing the latest Sigmatel drivers from the vaio-link website but they won't install - I get an error message saying "Device object not present".

Did you not get this error message?  Any ideas how I can get round it?

Thanks for any help!

I dindn't have that problem

what you can try to get the sound working :

set the setup program for the audio to compatible mode 'with xp'
in the device manager delete the sigmatel sound hardware
run the setup program as administrator

I'm not sure at all, but no harm can be done

success

Re: AR11B vista compatible?

rjhmills — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 12:21:04 GMT

Thanks - I have finally managed to get audio working. For the benefit of anyone else who runs into the same problem, this is how I fixed it:

- I installed a clean copy of RC2
- I installed the original audio driver that came with the machine (c:\drivers\audio\setup.exe)
- I then downloaded the latest Sigmatel audio driver from the vaio-link site and installed that.

I don't know if the second step was necessary, but I did it nonetheless. I had system sounds working by the end of the second step, but mp3s etc would play only after installing the latest driver.

I didn't need to run either of the driver setup routines using XP compatibility settings.

I hope this helps other people out there.