please help me.......please......

[mchrysanthou]

Hello ...

I am new in your forum and i have a lot of problems were i cannot find solutions...
I am an owner of a SONY VAIO VGN-FE41E.I have WINDOWS VISTA HOME PREMIUM pre-installed and am I am very disappointed. I want XP Professional but I don't have any drivers for the specific model if i do a format.I realise that i will not have the VAIO Captured Camera or the other applications and I don't know what to do!!!!
I don't like VISTA.... Please help me i want to throw it to the trash and buy another one with xp but i don't have any moneyyyyyyy!
Thanks a lot..........

[Blencogo]

Hi mchrysanthou and welcome to Club Vaio.

Quite a few club members have managed to install XP using the Original Drivers and the Original Utilities for the VGN-FE31B Model Downloads

However, this is not always straightforward and most of the Preinstalled Software on your Vaio will not work with XP and so it will be lost.

Unfortunately, we will all have to get used to using Vista someday.

[tonybeard]

Here is a useful thread if you want to take the risk in combination with blencogos drivers

[mchrysanthou]

yes but i don't have the cd of windows vista home premium..they gave me the notebook without it!

i dont know what to do... ... it's impossible to work with vista.

[dazwan]

Hello ...

I am new in your forum and i have a lot of problems were i cannot find solutions...
I am an owner of a SONY VAIO VGN-FE41E.I have WINDOWS VISTA HOME PREMIUM pre-installed and am I am very disappointed. I want XP Professional but I don't have any drivers for the specific model if i do a format.I realise that i will not have the VAIO Captured Camera or the other applications and I don't know what to do!!!!
I don't like VISTA....  Please help me i want to throw it to the trash and buy another one with xp but i don't have any moneyyyyyyy!
Thanks a lot..........

             

lol, erm i got the VGN-FE41Z which cost me a bit too, i kinda got used to vista and i fixed everything in it so it shud be fine really, just fix ur problems and live with it=) downgrading IS NOT AN OPTION, i tried it, get windows virtual machine or VMvare

[mchrysanthou]

i'll download the drivers of VGN-FE31B.... i hope they will work to my notebook and have no other problems .
What should i do when they'll be downloaded?run setup, and that's it?

please help.. jesus christ..........

[dazwan]

i'll download the drivers of VGN-FE31B.... i hope they will work to my notebook and have no other problems .
What should i do when they'll be downloaded?run setup, and that's it?

please help.. jesus christ..........

no, there are loads of crappy files that you will have to go through, and that put me off, please tell me if thats changed, and i REALLY ON ADVISE you downgrade, i did exactly the same thing, trust me u will just end up putting vista back on, because on xp i dont think it recocnised the graphics card for mine,

[dewouhihi]

before u downgrade be sure to make the master cd's

If u dont there's no way back

grts

[mchrysanthou]

you mean...with the drivers ...right?

burn a cd with the drivers...

[Blencogo]

No, Make your Recovery Discs for Vista Home Premium so you can reinstall this if everything goes wrong. You will also have to reload Vista if you hsve to make a claim from Sony under the Guarantee. Theu will not support your Vaio with XP installed.

Start -> Type into the Search 'Vaio Recovery Utility'
Open this and choose to make a "Media Recovery Kit"
You will need two or possibly three DVD+R or DVD-R discs.

These are your Vista Home Premium OEM Discs.