Hi to Blencogo, and to any parties reading this,
This is the update that was promised....
But first I'd like to give some guidance (to any other know nothings) on the creation/install process of modded INFs for non-SONY Graphics Drivers.
Then I'll give some bumph on my personal progress....
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I tried the above advice given by Blencogo (thank you again).
The site had a how-to guide, but as that giude didn't explain EVERYTHING in a clear dot-to-dot manner it took a little trial and error (and frustration on my part) in working it out (and was therefore unnecessarily trickier than it needed to have been for a complete noob).
Perhaps such sites don't imagine they might well be catering to visitors of so base a level of knowhow as myself.....
So....for anybody else who is seeking how to update their Graphics Driver by using a "modded" graphics driver INF file sourced from http://www.LaptopVideo2Go.com then it is as follows:
1 First download your GraphicsDriver from the site.
Leave the website page open because you will shortly be going back to it to get that Drivers' modded INF file data.
2 Unpack/Extract/Unzip the downloaded Driver.
3 Go into the unpacked driver folder/directory and find an INF file (which are info rich setup/loader files). INF type files are presented on your PC as a sheet of horizontally lined paper (with the top-right corner curled over) behind a large blue cog.
4 Copy one of the INF files from within the unpacked folder and paste/place that copied INF outside the folder/directory. Then open that INF (if asked for a means to do this then choose to do it with either the Windows Notepad or Wordpad utilities). Then delete all of the data inside.
5 Then return to the website and open the modded INF file. Copy all of the data within it.....which obvioulsy looks on the website to be data similar in type to the now-deleted data in the now-empty INF file.
6 Paste that copied date into the now-empty INF file. And then save it.
7 Rename your newly created INF file (just for easy indentification purposes when you begin the install of the Driver).
Rename it as, eg: the number of the downloaded graphics driver (and its issue date?). In any case you will want it to be be distinguishable from any other INFs in the Driver directory when you begin installing the Driver (and for if you keep it......in case you should you ever have need to perform that install again at some later date).
8 Copy your modded INF into the Graphics Driver directory sub-folder: Driver.Display
Then you are ready to begin the Driver installing process (which has an explanatory how-to guide at the bottom of the site page where the drivers are listed for downloading ).
You will be choosing:
A) Browse my computer for Driver software
B) Let me pick from a list of devices on my computer
C) "Have Disk"
(you'll see when you come to it).......
Ultimately, the file that you will then be targeting/opening to initiate the Driver install is the modded INF file that you have placed into the Display.Driver sub-folder.
Best of luck!
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I tried the 302.59 driver as suggested (but having had several unsuccessful attempts due to not understanding the INF file creation process, or something) I believe it possible that I might have consequently caused a corruption, and so prevented what could otherwise have ended up a a successful install
. In any event, my Win 7 64bit system wouldn't ultimately accept the driver as compatible (even when eventually installed in the proscribed manner).
I subsequently tried a fair number of other drivers with the same successful install process, but with the same fruitless outcome.
As, by this point, I was then running out of time to solve things, I made the regrettable but necessary decision to perform a fresh downgrade install to Windows 7 32bit.
And the first modded driver I subsequently tried: 301.42 (32 bit version) installed without issue, and is working.
Have still been getting occasional BSOD, with the same repeat reason: Bad Pool Header but things are better than they were.
I am still trying to resolve the cause/s of this BSOD issue, and have been alerted to the possibility that my BIOS (which dates from 18 July '07....and is consequently quite aged now) is a possible culprit. As a result I am hoping to get an update for this (though Sony don't issue them). There are (as for the GraphicsDrivers) sites that do such modifying of existing software.
My BIOS version is: R1050J8 manufactured by Phoenix
My PC is model: VGN-AR51SU
I now need a downloadable copy of this BIOS software as a start point for any such modification.
But haven't as yet had any luck in learning what name it is issued/available under, beyond it being a file of likely a eight digit number (which occupies the space between the hyphens): PHBSYS- _______ -US.EXE
Though the: -US preceder to the: .EXE might be an incorrect assumption (borne of seeing many other such PHBSYS- _____-UN.EXE BIOS downloadable files)
These big brains don't like to make things too easy for the rest of us, do they....!!
I am planning a fresh/format install of Win 7 64bit (in the hope that a clean (first-time) install of the Driver into a freshly installed OS may prove successful).
If there are any insights or feedback regarding the BIOS, or anything related to the BSOD (or any other issues) they will be very gratefully received.
Thanks!
