A friend of mine bought Sony VAIO VGN-CS115J laptop. She wants XP instead of Vista. I installed Windows XP Pro SP2, then tried to upgrade the drivers.
Since CS series is a new lineup for CR series (I read that somewhere), I figure I can use XP drivers of CR series. However all the drivers I got from Sony site when ran, it refuses to install because according to the error message: the package is not intended for this system.
I think Sony hardcoded in the installation program the list of accepted systems for a particular driver. Since CS series is new, its name is not on the list. Too bad! This practice (if Sony actually does that) is user-friendly and prevents driver installation in a system; however, it is too restricted for the technical-adventurous. Dell & HP drivers don't care which system you install them.
Anyway, I resort to use the manufacturer's drivers for chipset, video, audio, ethernet, wireless, etc... I got most of them working ok.
I have 2 questions:
1. Does anyone successfully use CR series drivers on CS series laptop and how ?
2. I got some strange problem with the wireless driver. I got the driver from Intel (...). Everytime I surf the web, after reading the first few pages, it chokes and says waiting for www.cnn.com ... etc... If I access Internet via wired ethernet, I got no problem at all. Only when I switch to wireless I get that weird problem. Doesn't matter I am using IE or FireFox, the browser will choke. I ruled out just about everything (security software, wireless routers, ...) On my other Dell laptop, wireless Internet access is perfectly fine (via the same wireless router). That leads me to conclude either the wireless driver is not good or the wireless component of the laptop is bad, or something else entirely. If anyone has similar problem and resolution, please share.
Thanks.
Nathan
Since CS series is a new lineup for CR series (I read that somewhere), I figure I can use XP drivers of CR series. However all the drivers I got from Sony site when ran, it refuses to install because according to the error message: the package is not intended for this system.
I think Sony hardcoded in the installation program the list of accepted systems for a particular driver. Since CS series is new, its name is not on the list. Too bad! This practice (if Sony actually does that) is user-friendly and prevents driver installation in a system; however, it is too restricted for the technical-adventurous. Dell & HP drivers don't care which system you install them.
Anyway, I resort to use the manufacturer's drivers for chipset, video, audio, ethernet, wireless, etc... I got most of them working ok.
I have 2 questions:
1. Does anyone successfully use CR series drivers on CS series laptop and how ?
2. I got some strange problem with the wireless driver. I got the driver from Intel (...). Everytime I surf the web, after reading the first few pages, it chokes and says waiting for www.cnn.com ... etc... If I access Internet via wired ethernet, I got no problem at all. Only when I switch to wireless I get that weird problem. Doesn't matter I am using IE or FireFox, the browser will choke. I ruled out just about everything (security software, wireless routers, ...) On my other Dell laptop, wireless Internet access is perfectly fine (via the same wireless router). That leads me to conclude either the wireless driver is not good or the wireless component of the laptop is bad, or something else entirely. If anyone has similar problem and resolution, please share.
Thanks.
Nathan
