Comments on: Windows XP Pro on Sony Vaio FW series

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:54:13 +0000

Hi Crystal, while it would be impossible for me to be 100% sure my answer is yes. Get any important data, files & passwords backed up ASAP. I would of course recommend you do this regardless of whether your PC is showing signs of failure. My machine died quite literally without warning. By died, I mean it wouldn’t even POST so I could not access the BIOS, let alone load the operating system.

On the filp side, because it was the mainboard that failed I was able to recover data from my hard disk using another machine.

By: Crystal

Crystal — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 05:07:22 +0000

I just want to be clear on this post.

Are you saying that once you get this ACPI Uniprocessor that I my computer is getting ready to die and that I should get all my personal stuff off it before the computer dies completely?

By: Miguel Angel

Miguel Angel — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 19:13:00 +0000

Woo hoo!! I finally got it to install! Thanks for your help man, I really appreciate it. All I need now is the proper intel graphics driver and I’m in business. Thanks again!

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 09:07:19 +0000

You’ll need chipset drivers – most likely it’s an Intel motherboard, and that’ll include whatever the drive controller chip is.

By: Miguel Angel

Miguel Angel — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 19:31:35 +0000

Oh, don’t mean to bug but I actually meant the HDD driver. Whenever I got to install Windows XP it gives me a message saying that there is no Hard Disk. It won’t even give me the chance to install. Is that in the archive? Thanks again.

By: Miguel Angel

Miguel Angel — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 19:23:54 +0000

Thanks so much! TO THE PC!! I’ll let you know if/when I get it working. Thanks again!

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 09:04:19 +0000

That’s the trickiest part (at least I thought it was). There are a couple of links in the body of the post above to places I found workable drivers for XP on the FW series model I have. Slipstreaming the install sounds like a great idea, but you’d want to be sure the drivers worked. Basically, I installed XP first, then sorted out which driver would get all the hardware to run. XP will at least support your keyboard, display and other core components, so the only must have is a driver for your network interface so you can get on the net to find the rest.

Good luck, you can do it

By: Miguel Angel

Miguel Angel — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 19:51:10 +0000

Hi there. I just got a Sony Vaio FW-170J yesterday and I’ve been trying to install XP. Do you know where I can find a driver to slipstream? I’d greatly appreciate it.

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Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:39:15 +0000

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