Vaio VGN-A117S Problems with XP-Pro

[HerrVorragend]

After making a new installation of XP-Pro on my Vaio VGN-A117S and installing the drivers and utils-package from the Vaio-Link Page, there are still drivers missing:

Enabling the WLAN and Bluetooth switch causes the search for some "UGX"-Drivers, which I canot locate anywhere.

There are no drivers for the mousepad, so that I'm not able to activate the click-function for the pad.

The "firstclass" Sony-Hotline kindly informed me, that they only support the preinstalled XP-Home, that it's not possible to install the applications from the recovery-cd without XP-Home and that the hole thing will remain my problem.

Any suggestions?

[kee-lo_]

All the drivers should be on the recovery CD, and as XP Home and Pro are exactly the same - it should work flawlessly.

BTW why didn't you go for the XP Pro A series notebooks?

[jkeepi]

Hi HerrVorragend,

I have an A115S (basically yours but 15") which had Windows XP Home edition when I first bought it. I ended up formatting the hard drive and installing Windows XP Pro edition and didn't really have any driver problems.

From what I can recall, when asked for the 'UGX Driver', I simply specifyed the folder 'WirelessLAN' from the extracted 'A1_Drivers.zip'. Hope that's of some help.

[VAIOspecialist]

What you can try:
Run the original recovery (restoring XP Home), which will create a folder "Drivers" on the C-drive. Save that folder, which holds all the drivers for the machine.
Then run your XP pro installtion and later, if asked for the UGX drivers assign Windows to use the files from your previously saved "Drivers" directory, and you'll be fine!

[kee-lo_]

LOL still, the A series has a Windows XP Pro build, so why didn't you get that instead of faffing around.

[HerrVorragend]

Hey guys,
sorry for the late reply on your suggestions:
@jkeepi: The WLAN-Folder doesn't work for the missing UGX-thing. It's only searched for the driver when the "Wireless Device Switch" is set to Bluetooth and I tried any folder from the "A1_Drivers.zip".

BTW as I needed the notebook urgently for my work, the XP-Pro Version wasn't available.
That's also the problem with first installing the Home (which was also the brilliant suggestion from the hotline). There are a lot of applications I need, so any new installation cost me about 1 day, which I canot afford right now.

[Davidhoff]

This is the solution:

in the "\Driver" folder you have a "\HotFix" subfolder. There is a microsoft patch: "q323183_wxp_sp2_x86_eng.exe"
Install it, restart windows, and when it asks again for UGX driver, select "\Drivers\Bluetooth_driver" folder.

DONE!

@D!