Windows 7 64bit & Sony Vaio VGN AR31S

[dvinedno]

Hi sony people.

Ok i have a sony vaio VGN-AR31S Notebook and i was running vista untill the lead came out of the notebook and messed it up which i did not create my own recovery CD. OOOOPPPSSS.

Anywas I had windows 7 64 bit so i gave it a install to get the laptop in working order.

Now NVIDIA GEFORCE GO 7600. Graphics card, On the nvidia site these drivers wont install for sony vaio? How come........

Link to drivers:

( http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/geforce_notebook_winvista_win7_64bit_179.48_beta_uk.html )

I had to install some seperate drivers so i can get the full HD experience instead of microsofts drivers.

Link:

( http://www.4shared.com/file/197615792/ff126789/16743_vista.html )

This driver seems to get the nvidia to work, so all is ok right???

well I do web design and by this I use adobe photoshop cs4, and now when im installing my fonts photoshop does not want to work and just crashes. Im wondering if it maybe that the drivers I have will not work with these?

Another thing I have is the audio drivers, I can not seem to find windows 7 drivers for my laptop, all I know is its sigmatel??

Also is it possible if needs be when i sell the laptop in future to gain a vista home premium disc for the laptop to restore to its normal state. or a recovery disc.

[dvinedno]

Right then people. Time to solve this problem.

I have windows 7 64Bit on a Sony Vaio VGN-AR31S

I have been hunting for video drivers for a long time and finaly sovled this issue last night.

What I had done was change the Hardwar ID's that are found in the Driver download from Nv
idia.

Which can be found here:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_notebook_winvista_win7_64bit_179.48_beta.html

I have now uploaded the files that have been edited in thie Nvidia driver for Windows 7 64bit.

Link:
https://rapidshare.com/files/228566911/WinVista64.7z

Installing:

Extract the folder "WinVista64" to your desktop, or any location you can find it easily.

Now open your device manager and with your display adapter you must open your properties by double clicking your adapter.

Click the "Driver" tab

and select the update driver.

And then select Browse for your driver.

I then asked to let me choose the driver, The selected "Have Disk"

Then chose to browse for the file.

In the browse go to your WinVista64 Folder > 179.48 > IS > Display > nvai.inf

Now select that document.

the driver will come up as version 7.15.11.7948

Now install the driver it will take 5mins and the screewn may go blank.

Enjoy

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[techni]

Just picked this up.  Question: I recall the HDMI output was integrated with the NV drivers. Did you

manage to check this ? Otherwise I'll upgrade to W7 and use your valued instuctions 

[171411]

Hi  dvinedno,

Have got the same problem.

can you upload your altered driver again as it does not show up on link.

also did it work OK with full 1080 HD.

Would be very grateful for this as I am getting very frustrated over this issue.

Regards, Mick

[Iddqds]

1-download the driver from Nvidia

2-run it to be extracted into c:\nvidia in your hard drive. Setup will launch itself but won't detect your chip and will not continue.

3-go to the extracted driver files and find nvai.inf. open it using a text editor. Notepad should bring it on your screen if double click it.

Leave the nvai.inf open on your screen do the following.

-Bring "device manager" 

-double click display adapter.

-go to details.

-choose hardware ids

-highlight the longest Entry

-press ctrl c

-go Back to nva.inf file on your screen

4-press ctrl f. Type 0398 and search.

You will find three line of entries. All has 0398. First entry numbered 1 in the middle and number 2 in the following bottom entry. Third entry is also numbered 1 in the middle. You are going to repeat and create the fourth entry and number it 2 in the middle. 

Finally paste the copied hardware ids towards the end of this fourth line to make it look like the other three line above.

Save the changes in this file by ctrl s.

Now run the setup file (not the downloaded archive file)

Basically you injected your graphics adapter's id information into the driver to be recognised by it.