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Sony Vaio vgc-ra280g and Windows Media Center 2005

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First post, by douglar

Posted on 2023-03-01, 03:58

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I found a Sony Vaio vgc-ra280g.

It has a really striking case with a hole through the middle.

https://www.newegg.com/sony-vgc-ra820g-gaming … N82E16883102309

Problem was that the drive was dead. It came with Windows XP Media Center 2005

I've got a copy of Windows XP Media Center 2005 and I've got all of the drivers on it except for the modem and the Video Capture Card.

The attachment Viao.png is no longer available

Sony says they don't have the rights for the drivers any more, if I read the website correctly.

Nothing on https://rebyte.me

Maybe if I could find the name of the files I could find it on http://dose.0wnz.at/ftp.vaiolink.com/PUB/VAIO/

Any suggestions?

Reply 1 of 4, by Ryccardo

Posted on 2023-03-04, 20:19

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For the latter, this might be it? https://driverpack.io/en/hwids/PCI%5CVEN_4444%26DEV_0016

Note - drp.su is perhaps the most honest of these for-profit driver/dll sites but why bother taming their program if you have a direct download (zip) option? 😀

Reply 2 of 4, by PC Hoarder Patrol

Posted on 2023-03-04, 21:57

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There's also this link which seems to have both modem & multimedia video controller (see attached .inf text) drivers for XP - https://www.driverscape.com/manufacturers/son … 0g%28uc%29/5869

;----------------
; Localizable
;----------------

SonyCorp= "Sony Corporation"
DriverDisketName= "Sony Corporation Mediadrivers"
smrt.DeviceDesc= "Sony MPEG RealTime encoder board"
smrt.Capture= "SMRT Capture"
smrt.Decoder= "SMRT Decoder"
smrt.Encoder= "SMRT Encoder"
smrt.TvTuner= "SMRT TV Tuner"
smrt.Crossbar= "SMRT Crossbar"
smrt.TvAudio= "SMRT TV Audio"
smrt.InstallDisk="SMRT install disk"

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Reply 3 of 4, by Horun

Posted on 2023-03-04, 22:45

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Yeah the Video controller driver matches with Python2 MPEG2 CAP: %smrt.DeviceDesc%=smrt.Device,PCI\VEN_4444&DEV_0016&SUBSYS_813D104D
but the modem driver ID does not match the ID in picture.... poor google of PCI\VEN8086&dev_2668 comes up as HD audio so maybe it is it

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Reply 4 of 4, by douglar

Posted on 2023-03-05, 00:10

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OK, thanks I was able to get some of the files. I'll try them out tomorrow.

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