darry wrote on 2021-07-23, 05:52:

elsegundo wrote on 2021-07-23, 05:25:

after installing pi I get this message "please insert disk labeled sonyPI:

Try pointing it towards : c:\winnt\drivers\spi\

windows was unable to locate a driver for this device when i point to that folder with the add hardware thing that comes up next

This may be a long shot, but you could try unzipping the attached zip file and pointing Windows to the directory created during unzipping .

darry wrote on 2021-07-23, 06:17:

This may be a long shot, but you could try unzipping the attached zip file and pointing Windows to the directory created during unzipping .

SPI60W2K_extracted.zip

windows was unable to locate the driver, seperately, any luck finding the webcam driver?

elsegundo wrote on 2021-07-24, 02:43:

darry wrote on 2021-07-23, 06:17:

This may be a long shot, but you could try unzipping the attached zip file and pointing Windows to the directory created during unzipping .

SPI60W2K_extracted.zip

windows was unable to locate the driver, seperately, any luck finding the webcam driver?

This might be a webcam driver .

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At this point, if I was you, I would consider getting the recovery media from from archive.org , burning it to CD, booting from it and using it to recover the Windows ME or 98 install that machine came with to a spare hard drive . From that installation, I would try copying over the drivers as at least some of the look to be Windows 2000 compatible .

If you don't want to go that far, just downloading the recovery media images and virtually mounting (or burning to CD) the Application Recovery CD images will give you access to some drivers which, as far as I can tell do support Windows 2000 in at least some cases .

darry wrote on 2021-07-24, 03:27:

This might be a webcam driver . 0023704.SNC.zip . […]
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elsegundo wrote on 2021-07-24, 02:43:

darry wrote on 2021-07-23, 06:17:

This may be a long shot, but you could try unzipping the attached zip file and pointing Windows to the directory created during unzipping .

SPI60W2K_extracted.zip

windows was unable to locate the driver, seperately, any luck finding the webcam driver?

This might be a webcam driver .
0023704.SNC.zip .

At this point, if I was you, I would consider getting the recovery media from from archive.org , burning it to CD, booting from it and using it to recover the Windows ME or 98 install that machine came with to a spare hard drive . From that installation, I would try copying over the drivers as at least some of the look to be Windows 2000 compatible .

If you don't want to go that far, just downloading the recovery media images and virtually mounting (or burning to CD) the Application Recovery CD images will give you access to some drivers which, as far as I can tell do support Windows 2000 in at least some cases .

i have WinME installed on a seperate partition, the drivers for Me are 9x only

"a service installation section in this INF is invalid"

elsegundo wrote on 2021-07-24, 05:08:

"a service installation section in this INF is invalid"

Well, I'm sorry to say that I'm pretty much out of ideas at this point .

darry wrote on 2021-07-24, 06:25:

elsegundo wrote on 2021-07-24, 05:08:

"a service installation section in this INF is invalid"

Well, I'm sorry to say that I'm pretty much out of ideas at this point .

I think if you can find the BIOS update it will let me run the sony hardware, or somehow editing the model number in the driver data

I don't want to get your hopes up too much, but...

DISCLAIMER : Presumably Sony provided BIOS flashers are smart enough to not flash onto incompatible hardware, but that's just a guess. I am not responsible for any damages . Consequently, be careful.

PCG-C1VN, PCG-C1VE and several others are supposedly practically the same machine according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Vaio_C1_series , which implies BIOS MIGHT be interchangeable .
Also, https://web.archive.org/web/20070217035952/ht … /Forum.exe?0022 also implies compatibility .

I believe (but cannot be certain), that the most recent BIOS that MIGHT work on your machine is BI02P1XP.EXE also known as WXP02P1.EXE . I also believe, but am not certain, that this BIOS is meant to improve compatibility with Windows XP on Transmeta Crusoe based laptops such as yours .

Both EXE files contain the same 568K bios.rom file (they have the same checksum) :

1C:\Users\Bob>fciv D:\temp2\BI02P1XP\data1\BIOS.ROM
2//
3// File Checksum Integrity Verifier version 2.05.
4//
5013ad2e0ba494734273abf4534b7ab27 d:\temp2\bi02p1xp\data1\bios.rom

1C:\Users\Bob>fciv "D:\temp2\WXP02P1\BIOS Wxp02p1\BIOS.ROM"
2//
3// File Checksum Integrity Verifier version 2.05.
4//
5013ad2e0ba494734273abf4534b7ab27 d:\temp2\wxp02p1\bios wxp02p1\bios.rom

BI02P1XP.EXE is designed to flash under Windows , whereas WXP02P1.EXE contains files to create some kind of DOS-based BIOS recovery floppy .

See also
https://fr.pcdrivers.guru/sony-pcg-c1vn/download-603037.html
https://www.helpdrivers.com/notebooks/Sony/PCG-C1/PCG-C1VE/

Also found the service manual : https://www.manualslib.com/manual/161181/Sony … o-Pcg-C1vn.html

darry wrote on 2021-07-27, 02:37:

I don't want to get your hopes up too much, but... […]
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I don't want to get your hopes up too much, but...

DISCLAIMER : Presumably Sony provided BIOS flashers are smart enough to not flash onto incompatible hardware, but that's just a guess. I am not responsible for any damages . Consequently, be careful.

PCG-C1VN, PCG-C1VE and several others are supposedly practically the same machine according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Vaio_C1_series , which implies BIOS MIGHT be interchangeable .
Also, https://web.archive.org/web/20070217035952/ht … /Forum.exe?0022 also implies compatibility .

I believe (but cannot be certain), that the most recent BIOS that MIGHT work on your machine is BI02P1XP.EXE also known as WXP02P1.EXE . I also believe, but am not certain, that this BIOS is meant to improve compatibility with Windows XP on Transmeta Crusoe based laptops such as yours .

Both EXE files contain the same 568K bios.rom file (they have the same checksum) :

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1C:\Users\Bob>fciv D:\temp2\BI02P1XP\data1\BIOS.ROM
2//
3// File Checksum Integrity Verifier version 2.05.
4//
5013ad2e0ba494734273abf4534b7ab27 d:\temp2\bi02p1xp\data1\bios.rom

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1C:\Users\Bob>fciv "D:\temp2\WXP02P1\BIOS Wxp02p1\BIOS.ROM"
2//
3// File Checksum Integrity Verifier version 2.05.
4//
5013ad2e0ba494734273abf4534b7ab27 d:\temp2\wxp02p1\bios wxp02p1\bios.rom

BI02P1XP.EXE is designed to flash under Windows , whereas WXP02P1.EXE contains files to create some kind of DOS-based BIOS recovery floppy .

WXP02P1.EXE
BI02P1XP.EXE

See also
https://fr.pcdrivers.guru/sony-pcg-c1vn/download-603037.html
https://www.helpdrivers.com/notebooks/Sony/PCG-C1/PCG-C1VE/

Also found the service manual : https://www.manualslib.com/manual/161181/Sony … o-Pcg-C1vn.html

ill check that download site "helpdrivers" soon