Sony VAIO VGN-AR series thread

[89stang]

Ok, heres the problem i have...
video drivers stopped responding and my screen would go blank. got on my netbook and chatted it up with sony suppports live chat (usualy very helpful) until this last time when i was following steps the analyst was telling me... long story short, i have a 1600 dollar paper weight! i have nothing on my hdd's due to removing the partition (i know that its somewhat my own fault) does anyone out there have a set of restore disc's for a vgn-ar730 e/b? please help

[Ashma]

Sorry no disc but if I were you, I'd upgrade to Windows 7 Pro 64-bit if you're able to. I did so on my AR790 and I can't tell you just how much it feels like a new FAST PC. Took a week to find all the right drivers (or rather, drivers that will work on the AR) but I have everything working as should be. Also if you do get your system up and running again, I would download and install DriverMax. It's a shareware program that you can install and download 1 driver per day for free. The reason I say use DriverMax is because I tried so many Nvidia drivers after i upgraded to Win7 and none of them worked right or would even install. I then tried DriverMax and it found and forced the right driver to install, not once but twice now.

Ash

[89stang]

ok, so upgraded to windows 7 ultamite 64 bit... anyone know where i can get all the drivers? seems like i can only see one of my hdds as well... i have a VGN-AR730E/B thanks in advance!

[samozen]

go to this link
http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/swu...mdl=VGNAR730EB
you will find there all frivers for Windows Vista® Home Premium.good luck

[ozdemirhan]

Is there any way to overclock this one?

[Redarmy87]

I am having no luck getting windows 7 pro to work on my laptop I have a vgn-ar730e the divers one the website are all 32 bit and won't work with the 64bit os the two major issues I'm having are the optical drive won't recognize at all and I can't get the nvidia display drivers to work can any elp me out and tell me how to get it all working

[89stang]

im having the same issues with the drivers, i have windows 7 ultimate because i was having so many issues with vista... didnt have problems until after the warranty was up! also you can get the driver for video directly from nvidia, but it wont work on these laptops... i know alot of people have these, and im sure we have some good hackers out there that have already solved the issue, please help us!!!(

[89stang]

im also having an issue with my 2nd hdd...its not showing up when i look in my computer, it does show when i go into my bios... doesnt give me any option to set up raid in bioe either. anyone else have this problem when installing windows 7?

[jsmart90]

I have an AR-770 and cannot get the video card to work for the life of me. I have an nVidia 8600M GT. Help!

[Ashma]

Okay guys; please try this first for Video Driver problems: Download and install DriverMax http://www.innovative-sol.com/drivermax . You’ll need to go through the few simple steps and setup a free account with them before the program will do its full scan. The limited freeware option allows you to see all the drivers it has found for your hardware and allows you to install 1 per day through it. What you'll want to do is FIRST check the video driver it has found for your notebook and allow it to download and force installation of that driver even if it's not digitally signed. I found all my drivers elsewhere but I could not get a single NVIDIA 8600GT driver to install until I let DriverMax download and force the installation.

jsmart90, the UI on DriverMax is a little strange as there are two control centers and so it may take a few minutes to figure things out. Let me know if you have any issues. Also as a free user of the program, it seems that once the program starts to download a driver, it takes 10 to 15 minutes to complete so just let it do it's thing .

Also I can send the 8600GT driver to you (about 100MB) but you'd still need to install DriverMax so that it can force the installation as I've tried it without DriverMax and it won't install. BTW' the version I have is NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT driver version 8.15.11.9040. I've tried a few an this version gives the best video playback.