[gui-talk] windows 7 upgrade

[Rick Alfaro]

I just went through the same thing with my Sony Vayo desktop originally 
sold in 2006 with Windows XP.  Sony is not making any W7 drivers 
available for this machine either.  That kind of ticked me off as the 
machine is perfectly capable of running Windows 7 since it is a dual 
core machine with 2gb of memory and in fact I have Windows 7 on there 
now, but it was a struggle.  The SigmaTel HD audio was not recognized at 
all and even installing the latest drivers made no difference so I had 
to install a Sound blaster Audigy card I had lying around and that did 
the trick.  It also had trouble at first with my ATI video but a driver 
update fixed that right up.  So far everything else is running great and 
extremely responsive.  I haven't had any trouble with any of my software 
so far but I still haven't installed K1000 and I think I may have some 
trouble with it so we'll see.  I believe I would have to upgrade to V11 
for Windows 7 which I am not able to do right now.



On 10/28/2009 4:17 AM, denise avant wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have a sony vaio notebook, which I purchased in may 2008. The computer was
> actually released for sale in march 2008 according to the tech person at
> sony. It runs windows vista professional. I was told that this particular
> model was ineligible for windows 7 upgrade because sony had not posted the
> necessary drivers on its website. I thought I would post this here to alert
> people who are moving from vista to windows 7 to be sure your manufactuer
> can handle such an upgrade. I was surprised to learn that the reason for my
> not being able to run windows 7 was not due to processing speed, memory or
> hard disk space but was simply due to the fact that drivers are not
> currently posted for this computer.
>
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   Rick Alfaro
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