Guest the anonymous forumite Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 hell on earth then. I knew it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest the anonymous forumite Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 sony. do you have a direct link ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 no. When you said I'm entitled to get a 7 upgrade, who has to give it to me ? The shop or sony ? well it's possibly debatable whether you're eligible for an upgrade to Windows 7 now, because you already downgraded to Windows XP. if my memory serves me right, the terms of downgrading are that you relinquish the Vista product key so that you can have XP. in order to upgrade, you would need that Vista product key. it's a volume license key, printed on the underside of the computer trust me, there's no problem there sony. do you have a direct link ? not for sony us, sorry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest the anonymous forumite Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 I^m in Europe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscillik Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 no. When you said I'm entitled to get a 7 upgrade, who has to give it to me ? The shop or sony ? well it's possibly debatable whether you're eligible for an upgrade to Windows 7 now, because you already downgraded to Windows XP. if my memory serves me right, the terms of downgrading are that you relinquish the Vista product key so that you can have XP. in order to upgrade, you would need that Vista product key. it's a volume license key, printed on the underside of the computer trust me, there's no problem there ahh that's alright then, i'd get straight on for a Windows 7 upgrade then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 I^m in Europe. ok then http://club.vaio.sony.eu/clubvaio/gb/en/windows7/order.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest the anonymous forumite Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 Well, I guess I'm fucked. Your VAIO must have been bought between June 26, 2009 and January 31, 2010. can they verify the date of purchase ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 oh bollocks, too late sry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest the anonymous forumite Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 I think the logic behind this deadline is that all computers post 31jan on sale already have 7 installed, so they don't wanna send an extra copy, right ? In that case, I've been screwed.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GORDO Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 no it's all fine. It even lists audio codecs. By the way, the screenshot above is not an actual screenshot, my warning sign is next to PCI devices. OK then, that's good, that's the same thing i had. right click and go to properties every device with a warning sign, click around and find the driver tab or whatever, then tell it to update the driver and find it online. that worked fine for my but my situation was somewhat different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 if you don't have a realtek controller listed under sound, video, and game controllers, then windows isn't even recognizing it as an unidentified device did you run the VAIO\[model XP downgrade]\SETUP.EXE file after installing XP like i mentioned? it can also contain vital northbridge/southbridge drivers Well, I guess I'm fucked. Your VAIO must have been bought between June 26, 2009 and January 31, 2010. can they verify the date of purchase ? if you haven't registered it yet, then no. you could phone vaio-link and register the purchase date as sometime in january, then you'd qualify for the upgrade. but that would be lying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Al Hounos Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 why downgrade to xp hen you could upgrade to ubuntu? i did it on my vista-vintage acer and it recognized all my shit at startup... pretty amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscillik Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 why downgrade to xp hen you could upgrade to ubuntu? i did it on my vista-vintage acer and it recognized all my shit at startup... pretty amazing. a Linux distribution is not for everyone. considering the trouble being had here with Windows, i really think a Linux distribution would be a more exasperating choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impakt Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 zomg white supremacist nazi kkk alarm1111!!1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest the anonymous forumite Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 did you run the VAIO\[model XP downgrade]\SETUP.EXE file after installing XP like i mentioned? it can also contain vital northbridge/southbridge drivers Yes, it said that everything was instaled successfully. I also did the online install twice and everything was installed successfully, EXCEPT FOR THE MODEM driver, as I Mentionned earlier, which failed both times. if you haven't registered it yet, then no. you could phone vaio-link and register the purchase date as sometime in january, then you'd qualify for the upgrade. but that would be lying. So you are saying: 1) that i shouldn't order it online (the link you posted) 2) that I should call them instead Is this correct ? If so, could I ask you for a phone number, I can't find it. I know I can be quite demanding, but I will show you gratitude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest the anonymous forumite Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 Well, anyway, the nightmare is over, I upgraded to Windows 7 and it's all working perfectly fine. Thank you Gordo and Eugene, a very special thank you Kaini, and obviously thank you Internet and my parents also. I love you Watmm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QBLA Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 i just got a toshiba satellite L505 and i uploaded reason. started messing about and there was no sound. i contacted a pc savvy friend, he told me to go to asio4all.com, download something and i got it to work lickety split! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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