Downgrade of a FE41S - Unable to login to the sony page. help?

[sypher]

Hello everyone,
im writing this because i've read that sony is now supporting downgrades of laptops to xp ....

well, i want xp (and need, for my nervous system), but i simply cant get trough the page
http://www.vaio-link.com/os/xp/downgrade/index.asp
It just tells me the infoes i give them are incorrect, and check again ...

Anyone got infoes?

As of now im fully on winxp except 2 stuff.
brightness and wifi... (both dosnt work, the wlan switcher dosnt go to 5ghz lan so dosnt work here).

thanks in advance for any infoes

[rich912]

Hi sypher,

As far as I am aware the downgrade option is only available for machine that came pre-installed with Vista Business. As your model came with Vista Home Premium this may explain why you are unable to complete the necessary login.

[sypher]

Well then i'd like it more if they would *care* to explain that in their own pages... Thanks for your reply mate!
So now ... sigh ...
Anybody got ideas how to fix wifi / brightness? 😞

thaks in advance!

[rich912]

Anybody got ideas how to fix wifi / brightness? 😞 

You could try the drivers/utilities from a model in the FE range that came pre-installed with XP....

As long as the hardware is identical this should work.

[sypher]

tried, no luck 😞

[rich912]

Have you installed all of the XP Utilities in order?

In particular Sony Utilities, Sony Shared Library and Vaio Event Service - followed by the other XP utilities from the FE (XP) series.

[sypher]

yes i did 😞