topic Re: vaio vgc-v3m in PCs & Accessories https://community.sony.fi/t5/pcs-accessories/vaio-vgc-v3m/m-p/360464#M9918 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;">Hi greenman1969 and welcome.</SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;">With a maximum RAM of 1GB, this model works best with XP but Sony do provide most of the drivers and utilities to run Vista.&nbsp; You can download them here: -</SPAN></P><P><BR /><A class="loading active_link" href="http://www.sony.co.uk/support/en/product/VGC-V3M/updates" title="http://www.sony.co.uk/support/en/product/VGC-V3M/updates">http://www.sony.co.uk/support/en/product/VGC-V3M/updates</A></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;">However, you will need to find a suitable graphics driver for the nVidia GeForce FX Go5700 chip to get the screen display correct and Sony do not provide one.&nbsp; Try Google.</SPAN></P><P></P><P><img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://community.sony.fi/html/@13A2E6A3774A8B47B4EC6F04089539E1/images/smilies/063.png" alt=":thinking:" title=":thinking:" /></P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 17 Sep 2012 20:33:17 GMT Blencogo 2012-09-17T20:33:17Z vaio vgc-v3m https://community.sony.fi/t5/pcs-accessories/vaio-vgc-v3m/m-p/360463#M9917 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>hi everyone</P><P></P><P>just been given one of these recently which had the ram upgraded to 1g so vista would run on it ok(so i am told)...it originally had xp as the op system but i know that the previous owner also had windows 32bit running on it aswell...i have done a fresh install of win 7 but have lost the use of the usb ports and the screen is not the full size to the monitor...i have downloaded various drivers etc and when that failed i reverted back to vista and still same problem...is the only way to have xp on then doing upgrade to vista then win 7 as i think am losing the plot... any help at this moment would be apprechiated</P><P></P><P>cheers</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:03:11 GMT https://community.sony.fi/t5/pcs-accessories/vaio-vgc-v3m/m-p/360463#M9917 greenman1969 2012-09-17T16:03:11Z Re: vaio vgc-v3m https://community.sony.fi/t5/pcs-accessories/vaio-vgc-v3m/m-p/360464#M9918 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;">Hi greenman1969 and welcome.</SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;">With a maximum RAM of 1GB, this model works best with XP but Sony do provide most of the drivers and utilities to run Vista.&nbsp; You can download them here: -</SPAN></P><P><BR /><A class="loading active_link" href="http://www.sony.co.uk/support/en/product/VGC-V3M/updates" title="http://www.sony.co.uk/support/en/product/VGC-V3M/updates">http://www.sony.co.uk/support/en/product/VGC-V3M/updates</A></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;">However, you will need to find a suitable graphics driver for the nVidia GeForce FX Go5700 chip to get the screen display correct and Sony do not provide one.&nbsp; Try Google.</SPAN></P><P></P><P><img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://community.sony.fi/html/@13A2E6A3774A8B47B4EC6F04089539E1/images/smilies/063.png" alt=":thinking:" title=":thinking:" /></P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 17 Sep 2012 20:33:17 GMT https://community.sony.fi/t5/pcs-accessories/vaio-vgc-v3m/m-p/360464#M9918 Blencogo 2012-09-17T20:33:17Z