SZ3 and bitlocker

[jmreilly]

I cannot for the life in me get this to work!
Have installed vista ultimate and has worked a dream once i got all the drivers from http://www.vaio-link.com/downloads/os/vista/upgrade.html.
Now bitlocker does not want to install one little bit!
Tells me that the system boot info has changed since bitlocker was enabled.

Anybody got any ideas?

Jamie

[Thalamus.]

We're running a car forum too and if I wouldn't drive some of the cars discussed in the forum myself, I wouldn't be much of a help I guess. 

We would willingly use any vaio discussed in this forum, please contact one of us to arrange payment of donations..

[P996]

We're running a car forum too and if I wouldn't drive some of the cars discussed in the forum myself, I wouldn't be much of a help I guess. 


We would willingly use any vaio discussed in this forum, please contact one of us to arrange payment of donations.. 

Well, I paid for my cars myself too, no sponsorship from the manufacturer.

To get back to the Bitlocker issue: I got several "TPM or TSS" errors which certainly are related to the problem with Bitlocker usage. I now suspect that the BIOS is actually the culprit since the Infineon software seems to be used on other laptops (not Sony) too without any problems. The TPM 1.2 chip should be the same, so no problem here to expect.
Maybe the Protector Suite QL is also to blame but I really think that the BIOS is not 100% compatible since most Bitlocker problems of other laptop manufacturers were mostly related to the BIOS in the past. Sony has to look into it seriously.
I also hope that Sony improves fan control, actually I would have loved it if they would have created the G11 without fan at all. The Panasonic CF-W5, the FSC P7120 and the Samsung Q40 have NO fan at all, all machines are running single core Intel processors, so I doubt there would be a problem with excessive heat.

I also own a X505 (pretty old but still fascinating) and although I hardly use it (mostly as a internet surfing machine), it impresses me how thin this thing is and this was 3/4 years or so ago. Of course NO fan on this little thing.

[GCParris]

You are right P996. I've been using VISTA in various forms for well over a year now and on various platforms, desktop and laptop. I've had it working perfectly on the majority of platforms.
But unfortunately my 1 year old Sony VAIO SZ1VP does not work with it. I believe it is a TPM compatibility or VAIO firmware problem. I have already posted an e-support problem with Sony.

Gareth.

[GCParris]

Latest update from Sony e-support is as follows:

*** NOTES 27-Mar-2007 Action Type: Info
Thank you for contacting us.

As stated previously we do not support this software or the OS you have installed.
The Bitlocker drive encryption has not been tested by ourselves and we do not have updates to solve this, they maybe available in the future but at the moment we are strieving to get all the basic Vista Drivers available on our site.

Regards,
Sony Vaio Team.