topic upgrading OS on VGN-A117S in PCs & Accessories

upgrading OS on VGN-A117S

thingswelike — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 12:15:34 GMT

Hi there
I've just bought a VGN-A117S with XP Home.
However I've just found out that XP Home doesn't have a web server with it, so I'd like to upgrade to XP Pro.
a] will this void warranty
b] where are all the drivers
c] is there anything that won't work?

Thanks
Alex

Re: upgrading OS on VGN-A117S

TygerTyger — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 12:41:54 GMT

It should work fine, if you upgrade from the install XP Home rather than just install a copy of XP Pro fresh. If you need the drivers again the Original Utilities Package along with all driver updates are at www.vaio-link.com. The warranty won't be voided, but XP Pro is almost certainly not supported. You may have the odd problem but for the most part it's all fine.

Re: upgrading OS on VGN-A117S

kee-lo_ — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 13:36:53 GMT

Get Apache and be happy.
http://www.apache.org

Re: upgrading OS on VGN-A117S

thingswelike — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 13:41:53 GMT

Cheers for that
Looking at vaio-link now.
I'm guessing that different flavours of XP don't give too many problems - it's not like the old days of NT v 9X.
I'd imagine that support would be limited but not totally absent as long as they still cover warranty.
Thanks again
Anyone else got any comments/experience

One question is the VGN-A197 exactly the same hardware as the 117 but with Pro - if so that makes me feel more confident anout compatability - I could even use the drivers from the 197.

Any thoughts?

Regards
Alex

Re: upgrading OS on VGN-A117S

kee-lo_ — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 13:47:35 GMT

Alex,

If it's still under it's 28 days return I would see if I could swap for the pro version of the notebook.

Re: upgrading OS on VGN-A117S

thingswelike — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 13:11:26 GMT

In a couple of days I'll be about 13000 miles away from my dealer

Re: upgrading OS on VGN-A117S

TygerTyger — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 13:59:33 GMT

I bet a lot of dealers wish for that about their customers lol.

Re: upgrading OS on VGN-A117S

kee-lo_ — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 14:28:42 GMT

In a couple of days I'll be about 13000 miles away from my dealer

Best get ya skates on then :smileygrin:

Re: upgrading OS on VGN-A117S

howesbn — Mon, 18 Oct 2004 20:56:34 GMT

One question is the VGN-A197 exactly the same hardware as the 117 but with Pro - if so that makes me feel more confident anout compatability - I could even use the drivers from the 197.

I have a 197VP because I wanted XP Pro - as far as I can tell, the hardware's identical to the 117s