FZ series, Need Help downgrading to XP

[mohammadhp]

Hey guys Finaly I figure it out
recently i install a audio driver , and it's work very well .
my laptop is vaio fz160 e . all drivers in windows xp work well.
so if you want any driver contact me at shirazi_friend@yahoo.com
i hope you enjoy ......

[ScuderiaConchiglia]

Originally Posted by mohammadhp

Hey guys Finaly I figure it out
recently i install a audio driver , and it's work very well .
my laptop is vaio fz160 e . all drivers in windows xp work well.
so if you want any driver contact me at shirazi_friend@yahoo.com
i hope you enjoy ......

But you still have no function keys or power management, right???

Gary

[leco]

Hi there,

Even though I came across several sets of XP drivers for FZ models, I still haven't found drivers for FZ340E and it seems they're not available.

Which package (FZ19, 39, ...) would work better with FZ340E?

Cheers,

Leandro

[zolek]

what is your audio ?? Sigmatel or Realtek. Mine is Sigmatel and finally, yup, after 5hrs searching/install all the driver now I get the sound card working

I got everything working except the bluetooth

I follow the instruction from this post

http://www.driverheaven.net/windows-...iver-help.html

It work well

[jasantos]

Hi folks.. I need help to downgrade my FZ340E from Vista to XP.. I've seen many steps are required, including driver downloads.. Have someone successfully done such downgrade? If so, could you please post here the steps for getting it done?

Thanks a lot!

[electronic_eng]

Originally Posted by bogart

You can also try the FZ2 drivers and utilities here. I'm not sure if they're the same as the ones on VAIO-Link, but according to the notes a lot of functions don't currently work:

For me( FZ11M ) worked only (Fn+F2) still not fN+F5,F6 DAMN :-(

[elmerb]

But there is a way to fix this problem:

Check out these two links:

http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/...er++pieter+inf

and

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=195238

Basicly you take the driver and you need to modify one of the INF files before installing.... or just take a standard driver which has been modded to allow installation for most Nvidia devices and subsitute into it the SPECIAL modded INF file such that the brightness controls work. I used the 169.28 drivers and the Modded 169.28 INF that included the brightness fix.

Make sure after install the driver you go onto to the desktop, right click, then bring up the Properties, then Settings tab, click Advanced button, then GeForce 8400M GT tab, the Additional Properties button and go down to the SmartDimmer item... set the items such that they aren't all fully on... I have Plugged in at Max but On Battery about 3/4 on and I have the SmartDimmer when idle checked and at about 3/4..... Click Apply and OK ... Click OK at Display properties.... and you should be done. The function keys for brightness now should work.

Note also that the order of install of some of the Sony applications is also important to get the buttons to work.

I used the drivers from the Sony Asia Pacific site... they have drivers for XP and instructions on how to do it.

BUT MY PROBLEM is AUDIO. I installed the audio driver and it work fine in XP however I can't get audio out via HDMI... the driver doesn't seem to support it.... if you have any ideas let me know!

[rezpower]

Originally Posted by elmerb

But there is a way to fix this problem:

Check out these two links:

http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/...er++pieter+inf

and

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=195238

Basicly you take the driver and you need to modify one of the INF files before installing.... or just take a standard driver which has been modded to allow installation for most Nvidia devices and subsitute into it the SPECIAL modded INF file such that the brightness controls work. I used the 169.28 drivers and the Modded 169.28 INF that included the brightness fix.

Make sure after install the driver you go onto to the desktop, right click, then bring up the Properties, then Settings tab, click Advanced button, then GeForce 8400M GT tab, the Additional Properties button and go down to the SmartDimmer item... set the items such that they aren't all fully on... I have Plugged in at Max but On Battery about 3/4 on and I have the SmartDimmer when idle checked and at about 3/4..... Click Apply and OK ... Click OK at Display properties.... and you should be done. The function keys for brightness now should work.

Note also that the order of install of some of the Sony applications is also important to get the buttons to work.

I used the drivers from the Sony Asia Pacific site... they have drivers for XP and instructions on how to do it.

BUT MY PROBLEM is AUDIO. I installed the audio driver and it work fine in XP however I can't get audio out via HDMI... the driver doesn't seem to support it.... if you have any ideas let me know!

I need confirmation that The function keys for brightness work !
I have spent lot of time and gave up on this! If it works please
confirm so I can retry!

[electronic_eng]

Originally Posted by rezpower

I need confirmation that The function keys for brightness work !
I have spent lot of time and gave up on this! If it works please
confirm so I can retry!

yes they work i just did it!!! (fz11m)
Now keys fn+f5,fn+f6 works.
But i lose the volume sound control button very strange!!!
Any sugestion???

[elmerb]

Brightness control works fine via Fn +F5/F6 after the new driver install and the tweak as described above for the smart dimmer.

The volume controls on the silver 4 way button at the top right work fine for me. The Fn + F2 works fine to mute for me as well....

Fn+F10 does not work for Zoom. However if you enable the NView Desktop manager, there is a Zoom tab and in the hot key tab you can assign a hot key to it but not Fn + F10 for some reason....

I had originally installed the video driver from Sony Asia-Pacific. Before I installed the updated driver with the special INF I did use a Driver Sweeper tool before installing the new driver to make sure I was doing a clean install.

Here is a link to the Driver Sweeper tool I used:
http://www.guru3d.com/index.php?page=driversweeper

I know that order of install of the Sony specific software is VERY important... one program is dependant on another... I followed the order suggested at the Sony Asia-Pacific web site XP downgrade info.

Note that you should be able to go into the VAIO Control Center Program and can assign what the S1 button does. This is also confirmed working.

One other tip, using the Wireless driver from Sony A-P, I did not get WPA2 encryption as a choice for wireless LAN. I determined that a Microsoft Windows hotfix is required... KB917021. After installing this, I got WPA2 encryption choices to show up.

Here is a link:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

What specific NVidia driver did you install?


Did you install XP SP3 yet?... there seems to be issues with the audio driver I have seen.... I am doing a wait and see on SP3 for now....

Anybody have any experience concerning audio via HDMI??