Well, we got Windows Vista on release day.
We began working on installing Vista on our arsenal of laptops which now consists of:
Sony UX280P (me)
Sony AR290G (me)
Sony FE790PL (me)
HP DV9230US (Jens)
HP DV8339US (x3 - Dana, Angel, spare)
Toshiba A135 (draylan’s)
We bought the DV9230US and A135 with vista installed so there were no major issues there.
So, I begain working on doing the install on my big machine, the AR290G. At the time I started this project, Sony had not put the vista drivers up on their website. I noticed that the AR300 series was very similar in specs to the AR200 series. I figured they were basically the same machine except the 300 series just had vista. So, I downloaded the drivers for the 300 series and began my upgrade on the AR290G.
Everything went pretty smooth. I had to do some extracting of the drivers or tricking the install program to think it was installing on the appropriate machine. All in all it went well. It took about 4 hours or so of tweaking and two re-installs to get it right, but I got it running with all my regular programs (office 2007, adobe creative suite cs2, EVE-Online, SOE Total access, Firefox, etc)
One ironic thing was, once I got the system all set up, I log into the Sony website and see that they just published the drivers for my laptop. hehe
Jens did a re-install on his laptop and he’s fairly happy with his settings. We’re leaving the girls at XP till we get the actual upgrade DVD’s from HP.
I will try to make time and post a detailed install order and what issues there are etc soon. Silver Streak’s array had a drive failure and I am working on that at the momment.
I am also working on the UX280P and the FE790PL’s upgrades.
