CR220E xp downgrade: impossible??

[passerini]

I bought a VGN-NR220E and Ialso got the same response from Sony´s call center - Your Vaio only works with Vista. I have a lot of softwares that only works with XP and willnot expend thousands of dollars to replace them. Do you know if the drivers for CR220E are the same for NR220E ?

Claudio in Brazil

[masterross]

Contact me on ICQ - 53686943
i'll help u

[passerini]

I do not have ICQ, could be MSN?

[thakoolkat]

I too would like to downgrade to Windows XP. I have the VGN-CR220E/R model.

I contacted Sony telling them they I was on the U.K website, and they recently released drivers for XP because of all of the complaints they got about XP.

Sony got back to me and told me that my model cannot be downgraded.

I don't have ICQ, I've tried to install it today, but it told me that the service was temp. unavailable.

Can you help me also to downgrade my computer?

Thanks

[nodrogkam]

first and foremost i would like to thank those individuals who posted up those helpful links to drivers.

I do have a question, how are you guys adjusting your brightnesses?
The viao battery manager seems to allow me to adjust the settings in the program but it doesnt seem to change the laptop itself.

[nodrogkam]

OH also...is it possible to do a dual boot? because im starting to look into things and its as if the recovery disc will only allow you to create partitions but it will override XP. Ugh why does windows have to be so complicated sometimes?

What i'd ultimately love to be able to do is choose to either run XP or Vista.

[tnmedic]

Hi, I google searched about downgrading to XP for my fire departments CR220E, red, and found this site. The city we are operating out of paid their IT guy 700+ dollars to install XP pro on here and it still isn't complete. But anyway is there anyway I can add back the memory stick readers? I have been able to get most of the rest of the drivers that he lacked in finding and some that were not even close to being right. But thanks for all the helpful information so far, I have really enjoyed it. Later TNMedic

[alvarofff]

hi there, buddy...

same problem ;(

unfortunately I cannot return the laptop.
I´ve got the same computer as you, and we are a good bunch of "unhappy" customers.

Asia has the cr2 series support, but not all of them seem to work
so I am using half the features of my laptop.
I even consider going back to crappy Vista.

did you manage to get any better drivers?
a link will be sufficient
thanks a lot in advance
alvarof

[thakoolkat]

I've finally downgraded to XP...Again, I'm running the SONY vaio CR220E.

My only problem right now is that, I don't get any sound from the camera.

Any Ideas? Better driver or something?

Let me know.

Thanks

[meowmix]

Hey

First, for those of you who can't control brightness, I told you how to do it using the Intel Graphics Media accelerator taskbar utility on the first page of this forum. It's a slight pain but will save your battery if you need it. If you don't have it installed, just go and find it on the intel site.

From Sony-Asia downgrade site:
Intel model:
1. AV Mode Button can not be used.
2. Instant On mode can not be used.
3. Fn+F5 and Fn+F6(Brightness control) can not be used.

I don't know if the memory stick can be used but it is the only thing not showing up in device manager. I tried the "memory stick hotfix" with no luck. I think it should work, probably after installing all of that software listed on the sony-asia site. The card controller is the texas instruments driver as listed, and the $ony stick driver is proprietary so it probably comes bundled w/ other software. I would guess that the SD card reader works without problem. I personally will never have use for those cards (just use USB sticks they're cheap and spacious) but people must need them for camcorders, etc.

I also cannot seem to get my built in microphone to work. Why it's not linked with the realtek audio is beyond me. But, I have not had the patience to install all of the vaio junk that I never did install and test it out... I would bet it works after a sequential install of all that stuff. I would install in the order they have it listed in, it seems to be logical and I know people have problems when not installing in the right order. If anyone has any success (or failure) doing this, please report.

Also if anyone can give me some good reasons to install any of the vaio junk (sonyNC, image conversion, shared library, utilities DLL, setting utility,control center,event scheduler, power management), I'd be curious to know why. My system works well without it. I installed the wireless switch setting utility and it works well.

BTW, it looks like people have had more success installing Ubuntu than XP, i.e. hardware and function keys are working in many cases.