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8/3/07 at 11:15pm
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I made recovery disks of the horrible Vista and installed, from an original OEM CD, XP Pro. My Sony N350 is a Core Duo Centrino with the Intel 950 Pro chipset.

Like many others, I've been playing with drivers. No matter what I do, I can't get the damn TI SD card reader to work. It didn't even work when I was running Vista.

BIGGEST PROBLEM - bios. I think I need better/newer/correct/compatible bios to run under XP. Of course, Sony provides nothing for this system pre-Vista. I'd swear that Sony was owned by Microsoft.

Can anyone out there recommend a bios for me. I don't even know who my bios is made by. Phoenix? I don't know.

Lots of loose drivers available on the Sony UK site, however, their model numbers differ from ours.

I'm about ready to smash this thing. Every time I try to hibernate the system, I get a blue screen physical memory dump.

Anyone please?

Many thanks in advance.

Milo
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post #2 of 3
8/7/07 at 8:45am
i take it that u r currently using XP.
can u share the error code when bsod on hibernation?

cheers ...
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post #3 of 3
8/7/07 at 11:04am
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Thanks Digg, but I've thrown in the towel. I wiped the XP work I'd been doing and am restoring the Sony image. I ran into other issues, such as the inability to install the many XP updates that I needed. I fought THAT battle for awhile.

I really do enjoy troubleshooting computer issues, however, I doubt I've seen a more greedy, incompetent debacle than the Vista release. Even Millennium wasn't this bad. Even the transition from 3.0 to 95 wasn't this bad. At least 95 had something to offer - other than worthless, useless eye candy that just chows down the processor and ram. I know, you've already heard it already.

Thanks for your interest to help, Digg. Once I get the Sony image back on, I'm going to go down to Office Depot, where I bought the thing, and make an ungodly scene until they agree to take it back. If I get arrested, I'll dump the notebook into the closet and rely on my old desktop until they manage to fix Vista, or come up with something better. Oh yeah, and I'm an architect who can't afford the 5 grand$ to purchase another crappy program...Autocad 2008...another overstuffed turkey. Vista doesn't fully support earlier versions. Seems like everyone gets to cash in on this one.

Milo
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