XL202 final Vista Snags

[markyd]

Hi all,

I Purchased the sony center demonstration set for £800... Have since upgraded to Vista and installed a dual tuner following all the guidlines on these forums and support center. All is great apart from i still cant get my eject button for the dvd/blue-ray drive to function. It will work fine as it is booting up, but once in vista, i have to right click it and select eject.

I did find posts in the forum suggesting a fix of re-installing the sony drivers in order of - sony utils - sony shared library - vaio event service. (this was for the xl201 though).

I have gone through this about 10 times now and no joy. Is a real pain if it is to be a true media center.

There is one device that is still unrecognised in my device list. Under 'Device properties' Hardare ID is - ACPI\SNY5001.

Dont know if that sheds any light on this problem

Any help on this would be fantastic

Mark

[Thalamus.]

Hi Mark,

welcome to Club Vaio..

have you installed all of the XL202 Vista drivers and utilities that can be found here ..?

[markyd]

Hi,

Thanks for the response. Yes i have installed all these drivers a few times (apart from the tuner card one as i now have a nova-t dual tuner).

My worry is that the sony utils and some other sony drivers are not running or installing properly. For example when i install sony utils dll installer, it runs i see the blue install bar going up and then it disapears before finishing. I dont know if that is correct.

I may have a go at installing all of them again, but i am losing patience with that road.

cheers

Mark

[markyd]

Having re-installed the drivers, i have noticed that some of them are for 32 bit Vista (wont work), where i am using 64 bit. It should be compatibale with 64 bit Vista no ???

[Blencogo]

Hi Mark,

Bad News!

Sony does not support 64-bit Vista. There are no 64-bit Sony Utilities at all - so anything needing the utilities to run will not work as designed.

The unrecognised device is a Sony HID device (Keyboard? Touchpad? Mouse? Remote Control? etc.) - this probably needs a 64-bit driver that Sony do not produce.

I am very surprised you have not found lots more things that don't work and software that won't run. The world is not yet ready for 64-bit, perhaps in a couple of years the obvious performance benefits will mean that the OS will become better supported.

[markyd]

Bugger...

amazingly everything works really well apart from Blueray playback and all sony's utilies...

Sony could at least have put a 32 after 'Sony recommends Vista home premium', as wasnt clear to me...

Oh well off to the shops tomorrow

thanks

M

[Blencogo]

What version of Vista did you use? Most non-OEM versions of Vista have BOTH 32 and 64-bit Vista on the one disc.

Or have you bought a 64-bit OEM disc?

[markyd]

yep... i have a 64 bit OEM disc...

Bill gates will get that little bit richer.