topic Windows 8.1 on VAIO Pro 13 in PCs & Accessories

Windows 8.1 on VAIO Pro 13

elitistreview — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 04:19:01 GMT

Good morning,

I wondered if anyone had found a way to install Windows 8.1 on the new Haswell VAIO Pro 13s? When I've tried to install the release version there is a problem with the graphics driver that makes the built in display totally corrupt. Using the Windows 8 video driver and telling windows not to automatically update drivers causes all sorts of problems making the computer run hardly any software. Anyone know of any updated Sony drivers for the GPU that'll fix this. or know of any fixes at all?

Cheers,

Davy.

Re: Windows 8.1 on VAIO Pro 13

deejohnny — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 20:10:09 GMT

Have a look on notebook review forum http://forum.notebookreview.com/sony-owners-lounge-forum/718043-sony-vaio-duo-13-owners-thread-136.html#post9353484 scroll down to post #1359 he seems to have fixed a similar problem on the Vaio Duo 13.

Re: Windows 8.1 on VAIO Pro 13

elitistreview — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 20:31:30 GMT

I'd tried that but many programme simply fail to run because some of the features of the Windows 8.1 driver are not supported by the older drivers.

When I was running win 8.1 with that driver programs would crash all the time and many just would refuse to run. It was a total disaster and I had to reinstall v8.

Thanks for the suggestion, but it just doesn't work.

Cheers,
Davy.

Re: Windows 8.1 on VAIO Pro 13

Odskikov — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 06:47:17 GMT

I also upgraded my vaio pro 13 to 8.1 Have not had any issues to speak of. Exept one. I am now unable to run recovery. It tells me a partition is missing. Have any of you had the same experience?

Re: Windows 8.1 on VAIO Pro 13

daviessteve66 — Sun, 22 Dec 2013 13:10:37 GMT

Just use the Windows reset function in 8.1.
It will restore your PC to Windows 8. Then the recovery utility will work