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viao vgn-fs450m

2008-06-01T05:21:03-08:00

First greeting and apologies cause i couldnt find any better place to ask the questions that i have.

OK i have a Sony VAIO VGN-FS415M laptop, but about half year ago my laptop stoped working, the problem is dead motherboard. Now, i need a advice, what motherboards can fit in my laptop to buy? I assembled many desktop computers but this is little different i believe, but then again it doesnt seem to hard.
I was looking the motherboards on ebay, but, can i only put the motherboard from my model in laptop to work? or can i put install any motherboard from series VGN-FS ? Or maybe some other?
So what i am asking is motherboard from VGN-FS415M laptops only one that is compatible with my laptop or can i use any motherboard from VGN-FS series? or maybe i can use from FZ series or some others?
And what would be the best to buy?
Thx in advance for all answers!

VAIO S-Series and Vista

2007-02-01T04:16:13-08:00

It looks like Sony will not be offering any migration of VAIO S-series (SZ is ok though) to Vista citing that the S-series doesn’t meet the hardware requirements for Vista (which is an outright lie). Interestingly enough, they are supporting the very last S-series (S6xxx).

Installing Vista on my 1st gen S170P works fine with it find every piece of hardware except the audio hardware. One can simply use the XP audio driver to enable audio and everything works nice.

The big issue is getting the notebook hotkeys and buttons to work and that is where Sony is lagging in the support. One can just assume they didn’t want to go back and update these utilities.

I’ve managed to get some (but not all) of the hardware stuff buttons working and will post instructions for those interested once I have verified it works and can repeat the process. If anyone has info they want to share, please reply to this post.

Migrating the S to Vista

2007-06-09T08:46:48-08:00

Hi guys,

Nice to have a new forum! kinda miss the old one though.

I was wondering if you manage to get everything working on the S with vista. I have tried and manage to get everything but the brightness working. So I went back to XP for a while. Now I want to make a final transition.

I was following an old thread about but it was inconclusive by the end.

Any of you manage to get an S 100% working with Vista? If so, please give me some poiters. I have an S580.

Best regards,

Lourenco

Problem with SZ370P and Docking station after Vista upgrade

2007-05-07T23:51:34-08:00

Not a serious problem - just an annoying one. The Vista upgrade to my SZ went very well (you can read about it here ), but there is one small problem.

I use the Sony Docking station for the SZ at work, whenever I dock or undock the system (yes, I hit the undock button) the laptop freezes. Anyone ever experience this, or - better - know a workaround?

Thanks

Sigmatel Audio Problem SZ

2007-04-13T09:38:35-08:00

Got a problem with my SZ. The sound doesn’t work and when I go into the Device Manager it says “This device cannot start (code 10)”. I have tried to update and downgrade the drivers, but none of that seems to help. Anyone have any thoughts? I was also thinking about changing the ANL-66 board but wanted more information before I moved forward.

Power Panel for S360

2007-04-01T14:49:44-08:00

Have two S360’s, tried vista on them and went back to XP since 1Gb ram does not seem to be enough to run vista smooth… do not have the recovery CD’s and need the power panel software for this notebook.. any help would be greatly appreciated.. thanks!

Burn242

VAIO SZ-Series and Vista

2007-02-01T04:18:38-08:00

Sony is officially supporting Vista on your SZ-series notebook and is offering migration updates at the http://esupport.sony.com or your country’s Sony Support website. Simply enter in your model number and it should show you “migration” updates.

Be sure to share your experiences/problems here!

A lil’help

2006-12-22T09:06:28-08:00

I’m about to sell my s150; however, the future owner would like to have everything set to original specs. Does anyone have the link to 9 disk recovery disks? And could you recommend anything else i could clean out before i do this?

Thx

Windows XP Pro SP2 Re-Install on S270

2005-04-08T11:22:50-08:00

FYI: I wrote up my experience and a brief step by step how-to for a clean install of Windows XP Professional SP2 on a Vaio S270. If you have a DVD-RW, I would recommend still making the 9 recovery CDs as you can’t individually recover apps if you burn a recovery DVD without going through a bit of a hassle.

Installing Sony drivers after a clean XP SP2 install

2006-05-19T23:59:40-08:00

Hi,
I performed a clean XP-SP2 install on my S1XP.
The original drivers which can be downloaded from vaio-link include many which I could not install because they do not have an executable installation files. Currently, I have no missing drivers seen in the hardware manager. However, I have not installed many original drivers including, e.g. LCD_inf, South/NortBridge and BanaiasCPUDriver which appear to be needed for the processor.
1) Do I have to install all thedisplay and original drivers in SP2
2) if yes, how can I, e.g. install the CPU drivers

BTW: I installed the Omega graphic drivers (ATI original is unstable with SP2)

Thanks a lot