Sony Vaio (SVS131290X) hotkey problem with Win 7


  1. Andrew0
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    Sony Vaio (SVS131290X) hotkey problem with Win 7


    Hi,

    a couple of weeks ago I got my new Sony Vaio Notebook which had Win 8 on it.
    After A while I started hating the OS and installed Win 7 Pro 64bit.
    I have installed all the Sony Vaio drivers besides 2 important packages (Hotkey utilities & firmware extension parser). These two packages could not be installed. I get an error that says "This update is not inteded for use with your computer model".

    The funny thing is that I chose Windows 7 64bit Software from the download page so it actually must work.
    I also tried the Win 8 packages but they also didn't help

    Can somebody help me?
    Is it a Vaio or a Windows 7 issue???

    Thanks you!
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  3. marsmimar
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    Hello Andrew and welcome to Seven Forums.

    Couple of questions just to clarify some things.

    1. Are you now dual booting Windows 7 and Windows 8 or did you uninstall Windows 8?

    2. Is your Vaio using UEFI? If yes, I'm not sure if that would have a bearing on installing Windows 7 as a dual boot.

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    3. From where did you obtain the hotkey utilities & firmware extension parser? (Are these Vaio utilities or some other 3rd party software?)
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  4. Andrew0
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    Hi marsmimar,

    thank you for your reply.

    1. I did uninstall Windows 8 completly and made a clean Windows 7 installation.

    2. Yes it is using UEFI, but I put it in Legacy mode in order to install Windows 7 (alone).

    3. The utilities are directly from the VAIO support & download page.

    Thank you!
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  6. marsmimar
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    I'm running an older machine with "standard" BIOS so I'm kinda out of my comfort zone with UEFI and Windows 8. Just a guess on my part but I'm wondering if there isn't something blocking the download of those utilitiesor if there's a compatibility issue. I noticed that the Hotkey download for Windows 7 64-bit is about 172MB while the Windows 8 download is only 113MB. IMO that's a sizeable difference and could be indicative of some kind of incompatibility between a machine originally built to run 7 vs. one built to run 8. As I said, totally a wild guess on my part.

    Sony eSupport - SVS131290X - Support

    Maybe Vaio tech support would have a work around. Sorry for not being more help.

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