[gui-talk] windows 7 upgrade

[Rick Alfaro]

This is why I will not buy another Sony when the time comes to get a new 
machine.  If it is over a year old, they just don't care.  They've got 
your money and the guarantee is over so tough luck.  Another component 
on my machine that will not have Windows 7 drivers is the mpeg board and 
tv tuner card so another piece of hardware no longer supported by Sony 
that i will have to replace with something else.



On 10/28/2009 9:57 AM, denise avant wrote:
> hello,
> someone asked when i checked this out last. actually i called last week, and was told that windows 7 would work since i had the computer for a little more than a year. in fact, based on the model, the vgntz270 n/b the guy said i would be able to run windows professional.
> next, I ran the ms windows advisor and was told that the machine could run windows 7 professional either premium or ultimate. so i called sony to see what the difference was. so i'd know what to buy online. first i was told i would have to run the windows 7 advisor provided by sony as the ms advisor would not work. but then the tech person also checked online to see if my machine would even support windows 7. and she said not this model.
> this surprised me as i said because i had always thought that if you havd the right processing speed hard disk space, and memory, you would be good to go.
> i've had no problems with the computer itself, though i note that when i wanted to get a docking station for the computer less than a year after i bought it, it was unavailable.
> so wit the windows 7 issue, it seems that anything older than six months is not well supported. i'm not saying this is true with all manufactuers but this seems to be the case with sony.
>
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> --- On Wed, 10/28/09, Rick Alfaro<rick.alfaro at gmail.com>  wrote:
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> From: Rick Alfaro<rick.alfaro at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] windows 7 upgrade
> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List"<gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 8:09 AM
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> 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.
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> 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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