Guide to installing W7(64) on Vaio VGN Z

[haquocdung]

i also have z520n, but didnt work., arghh., any help pls!!

Can you be more specific, and did you install the windows in the orders of the guide?

[yeow_Z]

its all good now, i forgot the windows update before installing all the drivers., thank you so much

[farhan2010]

Hi there I have the same problem on c190, before I see your help, I solved the the texas instrument card reader and Fn keys problem but the display brightness still doesn’t work. My display adapter is intel945 express family. I tested windows update, the latest version from intel site and other version from vaio link. Sony esupport didn’t help chating with analist about 2hours as I realized they don’t know more than me. First they your model is out date and isnt compatible. The second way was to find a new vaio with the same diplay adapter but this also didn’t work as the analist said I hve to use 32-bit one.
So any body has any idea on this,
please help me.

[valgarf]

i Registered in this site just to say thanks!!!!! to the author of this topic, you donto know how many troubles do i have to past trought to make my vaio works but now it estable and working, not all the buttons are working but at least i dont see the damn blue screen again

again thanks man!!!!!



update! every button works now! im really happy

[rblue]

Hi,
I decided performing a clean install (Win 7, 64bit) and I placed a great afford following all of the contained info in this thread.

FN, S1, S2, Eject and most other things , work perfectly from the beginning.

BUT I have a problem that nobody talked about.
I can't swap between the 2 graphic cards (The light indication does not work, at either case)

You can see at the attached jpeg, a screenshot from the Device Manager , where the only device NOT recognized is a Standard VGA Graphic Adapter. (It is the same no matter if I move the selector at any direction)

Could this be the 9300m gs card?
Can anyone understand what might have gone wrong?

Thank you

I have the IDENTICAL problem to skouskou (Post #115 on page 12) -- the "stamina/Speed" switch doesn't work and neither the Stamina nor Speed light is on. Is this a symptom of a bad Graphics driver?

Which graphics driver have people used successfully on Z540 (or similar Z520/Z5xx) hardware? Any tips on how to install??

I thought I followed the instructions accurately. May have to try again.

[valgarf]

hi here is a screenshot with the driver version on my video card, everithing works fine on my z-590f

i tried to update the driver to the last version but it dosnt work properly

[bcarteruk]

Aarrrrghh!
If there is one machine I wish I had never seen it is this VGN-Z11VN - the dual display driver has been a pain since day one , and considering the premium cost the support from SONY appalling...

It took weeks for me to get my original triple boot system working XP/Vista/Ubuntu but that was some time ago and pain dulls with age.

So this weekend I decided to give the Win 7 thing a go , deleting UBUNTU/Vista so that I could start again by dual booting XP/Win 7....

Having got a single XP OS working I upleveled the BIOS to R2170M3 , result no meaningful video on re-boot , just lots of vertical lines no Hydra BIOS logo (but XP carrys on booting regardless).....

After reading the entire thread I switched to Stamina and was able to reboot in low res no video driver VGA and drop BIOS back to R2169M3 , then reboot and install XP Intel GMA.

This evening tried the same again with the same results , R2170M3 = vertical lines , R2169M3 and I have managed to get back to NVIDIA graphics (Sony do not support hot graphics switching in XP).

So either my machine is faulty , or is too early a model = same thing (the Serial No is less than 200) , or the R2170M3 code has timing/setup issues on early models (which of course are not supported..)

So some questions for the world...

[1] Anyone else had the same problem , or can point me at a solution ?

[2] Is R4043M3 worth trying ? I see from the thread that this did not work for one person. So probably not...

[3] R2169M3 added VT support to Z11 , so it is intended to support Win7 , so can I get away without the R2170M3 upgrade or am I wasting my time ?

[4] If I stick to Win 7 -32 bit would R2169M3 be good enough ?

cheers
Bob.C

[NHT]

@valgarf: you can't update your video card with a normal Intel driver because the Z need Nvidia/Intel driver (the one that Sony makes)

@bcarteruk:
[1][4] When Seven was out, we all had the same problem but updating to R2170M3 did resolve the problem (with Windows 7's Nvidia/intel driver from Sony). R2169M3 will not work.
[2]R4043M3 is worth trying, you won't lose anything after all.
[3]You are wasting your time.

[bcarteruk]

Thanks NHT....

When you say we all had the same problem I am thinking that you did not mean vertical bars on boot with R2170M3 if the graphics switch is in the "Speed" setting....

My 9300GM is not being initialised correctly with R2170M3 as I can not see sensible output to get in to BIOS when in speed seting. Or is this normal and the graphics get sorted on the OS boot sequence ?

I think I am stuffed !

[NHT]

Do you have vertical bars on BIOS in speed?