The Vista installer will then ask you what type of installation you want to do. Select custom. On the next screen you'll see your harddrives. Before you select your C drive click load driver.
At the next screen hit browse. Click next and it will be installed. Now you won't have to worry about the blue screen of death during installation WOO! Let the Vista installation complete, it will restart several times before you have control. Now begin installing the drivers from the extracted files, I recommend the following order 1. Intel Chipset Driver 2.
Radeon or Intel Graphics Driver 3. Ethernet drivers Vista already should have a functioning driver for this automatically. Intel Wireless driver 6. Realtek Audio Driver 7. Alps Pointer Driver 8. Ricoh Memory Stick Driver 9. Modem Driver Also needs to be installed via the device manager Widcomm Bluetooth Driver The VAIO firmware extension parser. Go into the device manager and it will be called "Base system Component" or something to that effect.
It will be in the unknown devices section, hard to miss. Update the driver. Now that the drivers are installed install the following applications in exactly this order: 1.
The Sony Shared Library 2. From here install any other software you wan't like the SmartWi connection utility. If you haven't already, enter your product key and activate windows. And now you should have your very own, bloatware-free, clean as a whistle installation of Windows Vista. Last edited by a moderator: May 8, Nice comprehensive guide, very pleased So the only down side is that none of the Vaio programs are available. Just basically a standard version of windows without Vaio programs?
I wonder now if I should think about 64 bit! What are the advantages and would there be any problems running it on the Sony. Would there be problems with compatibility and such, and things just not fitting to the screen or something! Bit of A newb as I said!! But this would mean I could use all of my 4 gigs of ram! Not an IT pro? Windows Client. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums.
Windows 7 Hardware Compatibility. Sign in to vote. You can contact your Computer Manufacturer and ask them to send you a set of Recovery Disks. And if you never received a Recovery Disk when you purchased your Computer there should be a Recovery Partition on the Hard Drive to reinstall Vista back to how you bought your Computer. The Recovery process can be started by pressing a particular Key or Keys combination at Boot. It should be pre-installed on your computer.
And if you do have a Manufacturer's Recovery Partition on your Hard Drive, you should be able to make your own Recovery Disks from it to reinstall the Operating System. If you can not find any reference to it, contact the Manufacturer for advice on how to make those Recovery Disks.
And you need to know the "bit" version for Vista, as 32bit and 64bit Editions come on different DVDs. And once the Operating System is installed, go to your Computer Manufacturer's website and obtain the latest Drivers for your particular Model Computer or Laptop. Was this reply helpful?
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