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The laptop originally came with Windows 8, and the stock Qualcomm Atheros Wireless N card. I did a clean install of Windows 8 Pro, and then recently upgraded to Windows 8.1. I have the Vaio Control Center, Vaio care, and the necessary drivers only. The wireless was working so far, needed faster card. So I decided to upgrade to the Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260.
However, the 7260 AC wifi card is not recognized at all. The airplane mode can turn wifi off, but with airplane mode off, the Wifi adapter still shows up as disabled / grayed out. The Intel ProSet wireless utility also complains that the Wifi hardware switch is turned off, and needs to be turned back on first. (My laptop model does NOT have an external switch or key combination for Wifi enable/disable)
Did some research on google, and noticed people having success by taping pin # 20 and pin # 51 of the card. Unfortunately I could not find the pin layout diagram or a youtube video, nor do I have any experience doing this. Can someone guide me through this process? A picture or video could be useful, but I couldn't find any :-(
Unfortunately that did NOT work. I reset everything to defaults in the bios, rebooted the machine, and was able to log in to windows. The Wifi adapter shows up as disable (a red x mark over the wifi icon in the lower right bar).
I am somehow familiar with few older Sony VAIO models and I know they have hardware and software switch. Now, as you indicated it is possible this model does not have a hardware switch but I just found what seems to be a software switch.
Hey guys thanks soooo, sooo much for this post! I decided to upgrade my wife's laptop card from an Atheros in a Vaio SVE, but it just didn't work. I tried troubleshooting for hours and hours and I just kept getting the 'Red X' over the wifi bars. I thought it was a software problem so I did a full recovery back to Windows 7 from Windows 10 but it was still inoperable. I keep searching and right when I was about to give up and try putting the old card back in then I found this post. YOU GUYS SAVED THE DAY! Thanks so much!! I had to register on this site just to let you know that.
I registered just to say thanks. I have a Samsung NP700Z7C and when I installed this, the wifi worked great but bluetooth totally disappeared. Googled about 5 minutes and found this. 15 minutes later and everything works as it should. Thanks again.
This thread is a life saver!! My Sony Vaio now works with a 5ghz Intel WiFi Card!! I should point out that pin 20 is NOT on the same side that the antennas attach, but rather the BACK of the card. Pin 51 is on the side with the antennas. Once I taped the card correctly, the INTEL 7260 AC cards works perfectly in spite of Sony's misguided attempts to force me to buy a new computer if I now need 5ghz WiFI.
Many thanks to Intel for allowing this thread to stay up, even with the "at your own risk" warning. I have installed the Intel 7260 AC in older and less powerful computers than this Sony Vaio, so I knew there was no reason for it not to work except for misguided attempt by Sony to control modifications to a computer long out of warranty.
While I cannot stop anybody from trying to integrate the wireless adapter as described above I only want to make clear that if you proceed, it is at your own risk, and this is not approved by Intel since only the system manufacturer is entitled for such operation.
Do you think this would work for me too? I've tried everything I don't have wireless switch or fn key the wireless led comes on as soon as the power led does I'm using intel centrino n 2230 bought the AC 7260 device manager found it but only the wifi part no bluetooth it seems the wireless light indicator is for bluetooth/wifi with the 2230 card device manager sees bluetooth and wifi.
I can confirm this pin taping worked for me also, as wifi installed but I got no connection till after taping pin# 20 it got a connection and everything works AC/N bluetooth and pairing but my wireless led net to the power hdd battery lights doesn't come on most probably BIOS blocked but will be contacting sony for an upgrade list/ BIOS unblock as they are not in the PC industry anymore and I love my sony vaio I would prefer to keep it and just upgrade cpu/wifi etc then to buy a totally different brand laptop. A shame intel doesn't support these types of upgrades and companies block upgrades due to then no one would need to purchase a whole different laptop but I'm sure business would be much better for everyone.
So I'm having a very similar problem with my Vaio pro 13. The laptop shipped with a 7260N, which suffered from dropped connections and poor throughput, so I put in a 7260AC which worked flawlessly right out of the box in my linux installation. However, I'm trying to go back to windows wifi refuses to work yet bluetooth is just fine. My card is the NGFF version, so assuming the pin outs are the same as the mini pcie posted above, taping pins 20 and/or 51 did not resolve my issue. I'm ready to pull my hair out. Any ideas?
Many thanks!!! I have an AX200 160 mhz mini-pcie card (mpe-ax3000h bought in aliexpress) and I managed to get it to work on Linux after a lot of effort, basically forcing it to load the correct firmware from /lib/firmware, but on Windows I couldn't get it to work, no matter how many drivers I tried, even with a clean install it didn't work, until I read the "trick" to cover pin 20 xD immediately started working in Windows without doing anything else. The card is in an Acer Aspire E1-522 laptop with software wifi on/off button (with Fn button).
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hi
i dont understand how I can transfert pic in my VAIO !
It is not possible just take them and put them inside the folder pics of the VAIO ??
Somebody can explain me how to transfert the pic for that I can see them on the VAIO ?!
See you
Litch
First I advise you to read the manual !
But secondly, if you like to transfer photos, you have to double click on VAIO-PHOTO folder first, the you have to create a folder with this name : "USER-XXX" (XXX is a number, between 000 and 999) and then paste your pics under this folder.
Then you can go to your VP and see the folder you've created, and the pictures as well ! (This is the only way yet :smileymonkey: )
Excuse, but i don't agree... To read the manual is the basic answer, but it depends on the software.
I had the same problem there is some behind time using the software PictureGearStudio. I consider that the system used (by Sony) is bad, but what to do...
For pictures or films, Sony created a System of Server. He works similar to the FOLDER, but it should be created inside of the software that you should use.
Yes. Their pictures should be gathered in a specific Folder created by you, however, since then, you will have that you move them for a sub-directory created inside of Photo-Server.
You should create the directory, or her structure of sub-directories inside of the wanted program. For instance: PHOTO SERVER CONTENT MANAGER
You should use the File Manager (Explorer) to create the own directory, then, put their original pictures there.
You then will have to open both programs in the same screen.
Since then, move the pictures of her folder with the original pictures for the folder of SERVER CONTENT MANAGER inside of the program.
For films, the applied logic is the same.
Good luck!!!
Dear itbroker !
I believe me and you are not talking about the same device! I elieve Litch wanted to know how to transfer his pics into his VAIO POCKET digital music player, which is not a pc or laptop!
diablovaio,maybe itbroker is trying to say that the way you proposed is not the only one.as i have learned from experience,sony uses same or similar programm for most of the same collection products[ie all cybershots]
so,maybe there is another way to put the pictures in the vp...and maybe it is even more helpful or easy-to-view
again,what itbroker said might be for laptops only...
You might be right, but what I understood from Litch was that he wants to transfer some pics from his computer to VP.
But anyways, why should someone post something about laptops here? It's bloody Vaio Pocket FORUM !!!!
because they are only human:
they could get something wrong
understand something as something else
think they are in the other forum
anyways,itbroker is a vaio guru and we should respect him for what he is.also,if you think he is german you can understand why he could have gotten the question wrong.
try not to judge people so easily from know on...:smileywink:
How will upgrade my ram on my vaio p series to a higher level so that it runs fast.? And also which ram would I have to buy. If it is in your shop then tell me Or i will buy online. Please tell how to change the ram.
This series of Sony ultraportable notebook/laptop things has soldered ram, meaning it is directly built into a board and basically non-upgradable unfortunately. Based on research of this devices, however, I doubt that replacing the ram is enough to speed this device up any reasonable amount.
Download and install Intel EMGD (version 1.16 from November 2012 is the latest at the time of writing). Launch the emgd-ced shortcut it has created on your desktop. This will start the java builder application.
Finally while selecting the package, click on Generate Installation in the toolbar. This will create your zipped driver which can be found in:
C:\IEMGD\IEMGD_1_16\workspace\installation\SonyVaioP.pkg_installation\IEMGD_HEAD_Windows7