Windows 8

[Sly]

How do you download it onto UX, no one has explained it well and will I be able to use the internet, Im so confused! how much space will it take I have 8gb and can you please explain in detail to me how to download and run it with all its drivers and stuff(im a newb)

[harryfokker]

That no one what ?????? please my friend im not asking you to use the Search button because you are new in the forum and that will sound pretencious but if you click into "Alternate OS sectiion" The first post is http://www.micropctalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9607

Drivers??? : http://www.micropctalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6315

Easier??? : Impossible ja ja ja(Just joking)

I hope this can help you, welcome to the Vaio UX Club

[gritchenlewis]

Windows 8 is an awesome operating system that comes with many attractive functions and applications. Its features really amazing. People should use this operating system for having a great experience.

[Gadgetguy]

Windows 8 is great on the UX - but there are some (small) glitches.

A pure install works 100% fine, and fast. However, the moment you start installing the Win 7 drivers, some problems start to show.

Currently I am puzzled by the UX telling me that the battery is not supported, and then shutting down...

The battery works fine with XP or Win 7 (and also on Win 8 without Sony drivers).

Maybe the Sony Power Manager is not compatible with Win 8?

Need to do some more digging...

[ceehoppy1st]

If you installed the ISB utility from the Win7 driver pack- then remove it. That's Sony's "battery watchdog"- it will squawk & cripple the pc if it thinks that you have a "non-genuine" sony battery. I've had nothing but trouble with it for some time, it used to work but not anymore (& I use the same batts as earlier)

[Gadgetguy]

Thank you for suggesting that the ISB may be the culprit.

For now I have returned to Win 7 (as I messed up a couple of things with Win 8) - but will try again soon with Win 8, without ISB this time.

Thanks!

[Gadgetguy]

I am a little bit lost now.

I have installed ( as per the readme file, step by step) the various sony drivers.

I did not install the "battery police"

For the camera driver I got a weird error message. The installer said that it cannot find the required .sys file. The file was there, so I pointed it out. The installer still said it cannot find it...

After installing all (and restarting as needed) I expected the camera not to work (due to the installer issue) but buttons etc. to work.

But they dont. Sony control panel etc. is there - but if I configure the buttons - they still do not work. (and the camera does not work either)

Any suggestions?

I am not sure if this matters - but I am using Windows 8 enterprise

Thank you all!

[ceehoppy1st]

I haven't tried Win8 myself, but I read another post where a forum member said to try installing the drivers/utilities under Administrator priviledges & if needed use Vista compatibility mode.

[Gadgetguy]

Originally Posted by ceehoppy1st

I haven't tried Win8 myself, but I read another post where a forum member said to try installing the drivers/utilities under Administrator priviledges & if needed use Vista compatibility mode.

Thank you

That is exactly what I did... Any other ideas?

[ceehoppy1st]

The only thought is to see if Vaio Event Service is running. almost everything depends on it. (I'll assume you have a 32-bit version on Win8- AFAIK most of the UX drvers/utilities won't work on 64bit os & with 1GB ram you don't gain anything)