Hi

I got the identical same problem over here with my VGN-BX197.
No divers at ATI
No drivers at sony.
No (Vista) drivers from omegadrivers.net (been using the XP drivers for a
long time in XP becaus sony drivers are no good)
Tried the modder at driversheaven with recent and old ATI X700 drivers
Even the native windows drivers (and the update) do not fully work.

I like to believe that the problem lies in the fact that Windows Vista does
not seem to recognise the Laptop monitor as a monitor in the device manager
and as a consequence to that , all Radeon mobilty X700 drivers seem to fail.

I called Sony support,they will call me back, but they have no clue
whatsoever and first tried to tell me to download the drivers from ATI,
altough they should know ATI give no supporet for notebooks....

I'm hoping omegadrivers.net will solve the issue for Vista because I was
very satisfied for their XP drivers. I needed those to be able to rotate my
second monitor in portrait mode. Something the sony drivers did not do.
Unfortunatly the site says already for several months that they are working
on it and seems to be very very hard....

Hi Erwin,

Thanks for the heads-up on omegadrivers.net - hadn't seen that. It's a pity
they haven't got any Vista ones yet. I noticed the missing monitor too so I
think you're right. Post SP1 I've also had problems with the entire USB
system too (especially the fingerprint reader) - though that might be due to
a subsequent Windows Defender Update that I've read about on other forums.

Even though we have a paid-up extended support contract with Sony they still
won't help with this so as of now I'm rolling the laptop back to XP and
keeping it there. It's due to be replaced at the end of the year and I won't
be buying another Sony (had plenty of other problems with this - especially
the hinges, but that's another story

I'd be interested to hear if you ever find a solution, but I've wasted *way*
too much time on trying to solve this

Thanks again,

C

I decided yesterday to turn back the clock and restore my XP image back to my
laptop. I'm so sick of it. I lost more than 4 working days trying to make
Vista work on my laptop and another 1/2 day to restore my XP from image an
update it, and now am pretty stressed of this.
That was not the only issue, I needed to reinstall several apps. I suddenly
got, evaluation period expired errors in apps that where working before...

It's the second Windows XP to Vista upgrade I do, and it is the last one I
will ever do.
In both cases the upgrade was done without any errors, until you start
working with it...

The previous update I did, the Vista advisor said nothing perticular, after
updating I worked for three days, then when I installed some little software
thingy, it would no longer boot. After several hours of trying and research I
found out my SATA controller was not suported and wil not be suppoted by the
manufactorer nor Vista.
It never mentioned that when running the advisor!!!

Pfff.
But I have some good experiences to, A few weeks ago I upgraded 2x Vista
Home Premium to Vista Ultimate. Tha went fine, except I need a Vista Utimate
disc WITH SP1 (or deinstall SP1 first from the computer first).

Anoter tip (unsing XP). I just installed the latest ATI Radeon X700 drivers
on my sony but using first the Drivers heaven modder. You should try that to.
That way you can use always the latest ATI drivers.
Second screen works, and whats important to me that I can rotate the second
screen 90°.

Hi,

I have installed VIsta first in Décember 2006 and now WS 2008 in my BX
197XP.

I have the problem too.

You can install the driver provided by ATI with DH modder.

But you can't have Aero nor reading video files.

The driver doesnt reconize the laptop monitor.

If you connect an external monitor, all is OK except you don't have the
laptop monitor !

At this time, I have no solution for this pb.

Philippe


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