Sony Vaio VGN-NR220E Windows XP Driver
As the Sony Vaio VGN-NR220E bought only comes with 1GB of RAM, someone
was tried to upgrading it OS Windows Vista to XP. Unfortunately Sony
has only support VGN-NR220E system running Vista, so there are no XP
drivers on the Sony support site.
The first problem comes upgrading Vista to XP at Sony Vaio VGN-NR220E
was to find an AHCI driver to make Windows XP has able to see the hard
drive. To fixed this problem you need to download Intel floppy image
for the Mobile 965 Express driver. It used to create a ‘F6 Driver
Disk’ to allow XP found the SATA controller and attached drives. Now
following the steps of upgrading Vista to XP at VGN-NR220E below:
- Insert the floppy in a USB floppy drive
- Load the XP CD in the optical drive and power up.
- Press F6 quickly once ‘Press F6 to install a third party driver’ appears
- Press ‘S’ and select Intel(R) 82801HBM/HEM SATA AHCI Controller
(Mobile ICH8M-EIM)
You can also used USB floopy drives which special for F6 driver setup
you can get
here but ones that do not 100% compatible will get stuck in a loop
asking to insert driver floppy, at a later point in the install and if
you run into this situation, means you will need to make a custom XP
CD and slipstream the appropriate drivers on the CD.
Now The XP should install completely. If your VGN-NR220E has no
network connectivity, you needed the drivers to enable the hardware to
correct this but it require to change the Chipset & Wireless drivers
to reflect the newer configuration:
Here are the complete drivers needed for Sony Vaio VGN-NR220E:
Chipset: Intel INF Update Utility (for 900 series chipsets)
Video: Intel 965 Chipset Video Driver
HD Audio: Realtek HD Audio Drivers v1.90
Modem: Sony HD Modem
Wireless NIC: Atheros 5006 802.11b/g
NIC: Marvell Yuknon Drivers v10.55.3.3
Mass Storage Controller: TI PCIxx12 FlashMedia Controller
