topic Re: vista xl100 in PCs & Accessories

vista xl100

johhenri8 — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 22:29:21 GMT

HI all just purchased an xl100 and have tried fresh install of vista ultimate

im having problems as it seems others with the maxell wireless connection when i reboot the pc after all the updates and installs it wont find any networks

anyone know of a current or upcoming fix for this issue?

that apart ive returned to mc2005 for now and am happy with the pc

Cheers in advance

JH

Re: vista xl100

Blencogo — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 08:11:38 GMT

Hi JPH160 and welcome to Club Vaio.

The Marvell Libertas 802.11b/g drivers are meant to be part of the Vista Inbox and install automatically. Does the card show as 'working correctly' in Device Manager.

I have not heard of anyone else with this specific problem - there have been some intermittent wireless connection issues with Vista but I don't recall a total failure to detect networks. I suppose your router is vista compliant and you have connected the WLAN ariel securely?

For some reason Vista Ultimate keeps throwing up problems with hardware compatibility. Did you carry out a clean install or an upgrade from MCE?

Re: vista xl100

johhenri8 — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:12:59 GMT

Hi thanks for the reply

i tried an upgrade and a clean install in both cases the wireless card shows as working and finds the network then after a reboot fails to do so

shows as working in device manager but if you disable it it cant renable until a reboot

I have also now lost sounds on dvds through hdmi although optical is ok

i think i will have to go back to mce 2005

is home premium vista any better for problems?

JH

Re: vista xl100

JamieD71 — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:37:00 GMT

I thought I'd hijack this a little.

I've done a clean install of Vista 32-bit Premium on my XL100, and the wireless isn't playing ball. It's detected in Vista, but I get a "code 10" cannot start problem in device manager. Nothing I seem to do fixes this. No sign of any drivers updates (or at least none that I can find!).

Thankfully, I'm connected at gigabit ethernet speeds, so I don't need to rely on the piece of $%&* marvell card that Sony fitted to the XL100