Reinstalling XP

[andrewparkes]

I have a Vaio FE41S, it comes with vista home premium, just tried to install xp instead of vista, but i cant find certain drivers, anyone offer an advice?

The drivers im after are:

Network Controller (Think this may be the wireless)
PCI Device
Video Controller
cannot find them anywhere, any ideas?

[Blencogo]

Hi andrew and welcome to Club Vaio.

You will find all the XP Preinstalled Drivers and the XP Preinstalled Utilities on the download page for the FE31Z.

The FE3* series is nearly identical to your model except it was sold with XP as the Operating System - so all the XP drivers will be there.

http://support.vaio.sony.co.uk/downloads/select/select.asp?site=voe_en_GB_cons&category=0&serie=VGN-...

Download the Preinstalled Drivers .zip and expand to a directory C:\Drivers

If you go to Device Manager and right-click on the devices without drivers, choose 'Update Drivers', 'Have Disc' and browse to the c:\drivers directory, they will install.

[andrewparkes]

Hi, thanks

Is this guaranteed to work, ive just installed vista back after giving up with xp. but if this works ill reinstall it again

thanks

[Blencogo]

No guarantees as there are no official XP drivers and utilities for your particular model.

All I can say is that several users have had success with this method.

[andrewparkes]

well i suppose ill give it another go, can only waste a day lol