[bhus12]

i am using sony vaio vgn-cr363 . it came with vista home premium. later i added service packs 1 and 2 to it. it gave many probs like hanging, freezing, shutdown time prob etc. so i upgraded it to windows 7 32 bit ultimate rc build 7100.but i am still not able to get a stable and satisfactory performance. i keep on getting blue screen problem. is not that frequent but its problematic. few days ago my desktop busted due to some hardware problems. so i am dependent upon my laptop. iam thinkin to go back to xp sp3 or vista sp2. i have also heard it is better to get windows vista which has integrated service packs! what should i do?

This post has been edited by bhus12: 04 November 2009 - 10:03 PM

[nav13]

bhus12, on 05 November 2009 - 06:00 AM, said:

i am using sony vaio vgn-cr363 . it came with vista home premium. later i added service packs 1 and 2 to it. it gave many probs like hanging, freezing, shutdown time prob etc. so i upgraded it to windows 7 32 bit ultimate rc build 7100.but i am still not able to get a stable and satisfactory performance. i keep on getting blue screen problem. is not that frequent but its problematic. few days ago my desktop busted due to some hardware problems. so i am dependent upon my laptop. iam thinkin to go back to xp sp3 or vista sp2. i have also heard it is better to get windows vista which has integrated service packs! what should i do?

First off, welcome to the land of trying W7 on a Sony PC. I'm on the same page. But I love W7.

[bhus12]

nav13, on 05 November 2009 - 10:18 PM, said:

bhus12, on 05 November 2009 - 06:00 AM, said:

i am using sony vaio vgn-cr363 . it came with vista home premium. later i added service packs 1 and 2 to it. it gave many probs like hanging, freezing, shutdown time prob etc. so i upgraded it to windows 7 32 bit ultimate rc build 7100.but i am still not able to get a stable and satisfactory performance. i keep on getting blue screen problem. is not that frequent but its problematic. few days ago my desktop busted due to some hardware problems. so i am dependent upon my laptop. iam thinkin to go back to xp sp3 or vista sp2. i have also heard it is better to get windows vista which has integrated service packs! what should i do?

First off, welcome to the land of trying W7 on a Sony PC. I'm on the same page. But I love W7.

i am looking for help here and need it urgently!

[techie4fun]

Hi and welcome to the forums

You really should NOT have any problems with Windows Vista. What operating system are you running right now?

[bhus12]

techie4fun, on 06 November 2009 - 03:05 PM, said:

Hi and welcome to the forums

You really should NOT have any problems with Windows Vista. What operating system are you running right now?

i am running windows 7 32 bit rc build 7100

[compnovo]

bhus12, on 04 November 2009 - 10:00 PM, said:

i am using sony vaio vgn-cr363 . it came with vista home premium. later i added service packs 1 and 2 to it. it gave many probs like hanging, freezing, shutdown time prob etc. so i upgraded it to windows 7 32 bit ultimate rc build 7100.but i am still not able to get a stable and satisfactory performance. i keep on getting blue screen problem. is not that frequent but its problematic. few days ago my desktop busted due to some hardware problems. so i am dependent upon my laptop. iam thinkin to go back to xp sp3 or vista sp2. i have also heard it is better to get windows vista which has integrated service packs! what should i do?

The symptoms you're describing ("hanging, freezing, shutdown time...") do not sound OS related. I would be more suspicious of either driver conflicts or problems with an application, especially a factory-installed security suite. Blue screening is also sometimes caused by faulty RAM.
Also, you're currently running an rc (which is still a beta build, technically speaking) so you're results will vary if you install the final release version of Win7. One more consideration: downgrading to WinXP will only be possible if Sony has the correct XP drivers for your computer.

[orlbuckeye]

bhus12, on 05 November 2009 - 06:00 AM, said:

i am using sony vaio vgn-cr363 . it came with vista home premium. later i added service packs 1 and 2 to it. it gave many probs like hanging, freezing, shutdown time prob etc. so i upgraded it to windows 7 32 bit ultimate rc build 7100.but i am still not able to get a stable and satisfactory performance. i keep on getting blue screen problem. is not that frequent but its problematic. few days ago my desktop busted due to some hardware problems. so i am dependent upon my laptop. iam thinkin to go back to xp sp3 or vista sp2. i have also heard it is better to get windows vista which has integrated service packs! what should i do?

The problem is when you do an upgrade to an OS that is having problems those problems aren't removed. A clean install is your best bet. You will probably see better performance with a clean install of either XP, Vista or Windows 7 rather then being able restore back to Vista.

This post has been edited by orlbuckeye: 06 November 2009 - 12:18 PM

[bhus12]

orlbuckeye, on 06 November 2009 - 08:17 PM, said:

bhus12, on 05 November 2009 - 06:00 AM, said:

i am using sony vaio vgn-cr363 . it came with vista home premium. later i added service packs 1 and 2 to it. it gave many probs like hanging, freezing, shutdown time prob etc. so i upgraded it to windows 7 32 bit ultimate rc build 7100.but i am still not able to get a stable and satisfactory performance. i keep on getting blue screen problem. is not that frequent but its problematic. few days ago my desktop busted due to some hardware problems. so i am dependent upon my laptop. iam thinkin to go back to xp sp3 or vista sp2. i have also heard it is better to get windows vista which has integrated service packs! what should i do?

The problem is when you do an upgrade to an OS that is having problems those problems aren't removed. A clean install is your best bet. You will probably see better performance with a clean install of either XP, Vista or Windows 7 rather then being able restore back to Vista.

@orlbuckeye: thats fine you are suggesting a clean install but main probs still reamins which os to use? after using windows 7 i say its any day better than vista.its vista vs xp vs w7?

[JimH443]

My opinion is this:

If you have a 32 bit computer and can do a clean install of XP, do it.

While it is true that all support for XP will end in 2014... ask yourself this question: How likely is it that you'll even be using this computer 5 years from now?

Compnovo makes a good point about drivers. Before installing XP, make sure to download all XP drivers for your computer. (And burn them to CD or DVD since you'll be erasing the hard drive when you do the clean install)

This post has been edited by JimH443: 07 November 2009 - 12:03 AM

[bhus12]

i decided to install xp and i am presently doing a clean install and during that process i found out that there are two partitions. one is recovery [e] and the other is c. i formatted the c partition for installing xp and left the recovery partition untouched.is it necessary to delete it and if yes , then can i delete it later after installing xp as the formatting process of c partittio is going on.

[JimH443]

bhus12, on 10 November 2009 - 08:07 AM, said:

i decided to install xp and i am presently doing a clean install and during that process i found out that there are two partitions. one is recovery [e] and the other is c. i formatted the c partition for installing xp and left the recovery partition untouched.is it necessary to delete it and if yes , then can i delete it later after installing xp as the formatting process of c partittio is going on.

The recovery partition is usually quite small (5GB or less). The best time to delete it is before you install XP. But, since you've already started that process, you can continue to ignore the existence of this partition. There is no need to delete it though.

edit: While it can be deleted later, I wouldn't bother with it. You won't gain much from it.

This post has been edited by JimH443: 10 November 2009 - 05:24 AM

[Northlite]

bhus12, on 05 November 2009 - 01:00 AM, said:

i am using sony vaio vgn-cr363 . it came with vista home premium. later i added service packs 1 and 2 to it. it gave many probs like hanging, freezing, shutdown time prob etc. so i upgraded it to windows 7 32 bit ultimate rc build 7100.but i am still not able to get a stable and satisfactory performance. i keep on getting blue screen problem. is not that frequent but its problematic. few days ago my desktop busted due to some hardware problems. so i am dependent upon my laptop. iam thinkin to go back to xp sp3 or vista sp2. i have also heard it is better to get windows vista which has integrated service packs! what should i do?

I think I agree with a poster here where it maybe hardware/software related. To test this if you were doing ok on the Vista install that came with the laptop you should of tried going back to that, if that acted up then you know it's hardware related. I think going backwards to XP on a system made for Vista may just bring it's own set of problems, mainly with recognizing drivers for important stuff like video, sound, wifi - etc.

On another note, I installed Windows 7 beta then to RC on my Gateway laptop and it rendered the restore partition unusable because OEM's set a key in boot to get to it, once you load in another OS it changes that boot, in other words I can no longer press F12 to get to the recovery partition to redo the laptop. I do have the original recovery on disk but it is handy to have the restore on board rather then dig out disk and use that. I think when I run the recovery in March when the RC dies it may restore this though.

For some reason Sony does seem to be a problem child over other OEM's but it seems like they try to hard to reinvent the wheel rather then go with usual stuff. I guess since they usually charge a smidgen more for their systems they feel obligated to make then a little different?

[bhus12]

i did a clean install of xp and everyhting is goin but i was not able to intall intel graphics driver. when i try , it says failure to update the driver and same goes for wireless atheros.

[JimH443]

bhus12, on 12 November 2009 - 09:27 AM, said:

i did a clean install of xp and everyhting is goin but i was not able to intall intel graphics driver. when i try , it says failure to update the driver and same goes for wireless atheros.

I presume that when you say everything is going, that everything is working properly. If this is true, then I wouldn't worry about the difficulty you're having with installing the drivers.

Is everything working properly?

[bhus12]

i have ati radeon graphic card in built in my vaio. the written instruction are as following:

ATI Video driver
Please double check the H/W SPEC if the unit is built-in Intel Graphics Device please
install this driver if the unit is buit-in ATI Graphics Device please skip this step.
1. Execute \Drivers\Graphcis-ATI.EXE file.
2. Follow the installation wizard that appears.
3. At the License Agreement dialog, read the agreement. Click I Agree to continue with
the installation.
NOTE: Several setup boxes may briefly appear during the installation. Follow the
installation wizard that appears.
4. When the installation finishes, please restart the computer if needed.

Intel Video driver
Please double check the H/W SPEC if the unit is built-in ATI Graphics Device please
install this driver if the unit is buit-in Intel Graphics Device please skip this step.
1. Execute \Drivers\Graphics-Intel.EXE file.
2. Follow the installation wizard that appears.
3. At the License Agreement dialog, read the agreement. Click I Agree to continue with
the installation.
NOTE: Several setup boxes may briefly appear during the installation. Follow the
installation wizard that appears.
4. When the installation finishes, please restart the computer if needed.

according to these instructions, i tried to install intel graphics driver but it says failure to update the driver . i am presently running display on ati ,so how to update intel driver? please help!

[JimH443]

bhus12, on 12 November 2009 - 11:06 AM, said:

i have ati radeon graphic card in built in my vaio. the written instruction are as following:

ATI Video driver
Please double check the H/W SPEC if the unit is built-in Intel Graphics Device please
install this driver if the unit is buit-in ATI Graphics Device please skip this step.
1. Execute \Drivers\Graphcis-ATI.EXE file.
2. Follow the installation wizard that appears.
3. At the License Agreement dialog, read the agreement. Click I Agree to continue with
the installation.
NOTE: Several setup boxes may briefly appear during the installation. Follow the
installation wizard that appears.
4. When the installation finishes, please restart the computer if needed.

Intel Video driver
Please double check the H/W SPEC if the unit is built-in ATI Graphics Device please
install this driver if the unit is buit-in Intel Graphics Device please skip this step.
1. Execute \Drivers\Graphics-Intel.EXE file.
2. Follow the installation wizard that appears.
3. At the License Agreement dialog, read the agreement. Click I Agree to continue with
the installation.
NOTE: Several setup boxes may briefly appear during the installation. Follow the
installation wizard that appears.
4. When the installation finishes, please restart the computer if needed.

according to these instructions, i tried to install intel graphics driver but it says failure to update the driver . i am presently running display on ati ,so how to update intel driver? please help!

If your display is working properly right now, don't worry about installing this driver.

[bhus12]

JimH443, on 12 November 2009 - 04:20 PM, said:

bhus12, on 12 November 2009 - 11:06 AM, said:

i have ati radeon graphic card in built in my vaio. the written instruction are as following:

ATI Video driver
Please double check the H/W SPEC if the unit is built-in Intel Graphics Device please
install this driver if the unit is buit-in ATI Graphics Device please skip this step.
1. Execute \Drivers\Graphcis-ATI.EXE file.
2. Follow the installation wizard that appears.
3. At the License Agreement dialog, read the agreement. Click I Agree to continue with
the installation.
NOTE: Several setup boxes may briefly appear during the installation. Follow the
installation wizard that appears.
4. When the installation finishes, please restart the computer if needed.

Intel Video driver
Please double check the H/W SPEC if the unit is built-in ATI Graphics Device please
install this driver if the unit is buit-in Intel Graphics Device please skip this step.
1. Execute \Drivers\Graphics-Intel.EXE file.
2. Follow the installation wizard that appears.
3. At the License Agreement dialog, read the agreement. Click I Agree to continue with
the installation.
NOTE: Several setup boxes may briefly appear during the installation. Follow the
installation wizard that appears.
4. When the installation finishes, please restart the computer if needed.

according to these instructions, i tried to install intel graphics driver but it says failure to update the driver . i am presently running display on ati ,so how to update intel driver? please help!

If your display is working properly right now, don't worry about installing this driver.

intel driver is useful for onboard graphics so i wish to install it

[JimH443]

bhus12, on 12 November 2009 - 01:21 PM, said:

JimH443, on 12 November 2009 - 04:20 PM, said:

If your display is working properly right now, don't worry about installing this driver.

intel driver is useful for onboard graphics so i wish to install it

Are your onboard graphics working right now?

[bhus12]

JimH443, on 12 November 2009 - 06:26 PM, said:

bhus12, on 12 November 2009 - 01:21 PM, said:

JimH443, on 12 November 2009 - 04:20 PM, said:

If your display is working properly right now, don't worry about installing this driver.

intel driver is useful for onboard graphics so i wish to install it

Are your onboard graphics working right now?

nope. its is on ati right now
before installing ati it was on onboard graphics i guess!

[JimH443]

bhus12, on 12 November 2009 - 11:06 AM, said:

i have ati radeon graphic card in built in my vaio. the written instruction are as following:

bhus12, on 12 November 2009 - 01:39 PM, said:

JimH443, on 12 November 2009 - 06:26 PM, said:

bhus12, on 12 November 2009 - 01:21 PM, said:

JimH443, on 12 November 2009 - 04:20 PM, said:

If your display is working properly right now, don't worry about installing this driver.

intel driver is useful for onboard graphics so i wish to install it

Are your onboard graphics working right now?

nope. its is on ati right now
before installing ati it was on onboard graphics i guess!

If you are using the ATI Radeon, then ATI is what it should be on right now.