Sony VGX-XL201 Manual do Utilizador

Sony VAIO VGX-XL201 Media Center PC Clean Install Guide Version 1.0 Author: William Warby

Preparing for the Custom Operating System Install Image You need some files from the C: drive and from your System Recovery DVD. Although you can pull

Files from the System Recovery DVD Copy the contents of [System Recovery DVD]\VAIO Applications\Drivers to C:\CleanInstall\Drivers Tip: These files ca

Creating the Custom Operating System Install Image Sony do not provide you with an installable operating system CD, so you need to obtain one somehow.

• Run nLite and press “Next”.

• Insert MCE 2005 CD1 and press “Browse…” to select your DVD drive. • nLite will ask you where you want to save the CD installation files for modi

• Browse to C:\CleanInstall\OS_Default and click “OK”. • nLite will copy the contents of the CD to your hard drive.

• nLite will ask to copy CD2 to the same location as CD1. Insert CD 2 and press “Yes”, then browse and select your DVD drive. • nLite will copy the

• Don’t click “Next” yet. It has been my experience that you may want build your nLite modified operation system install image a few times before you

• Copy the contents of C:\CleanInstall\OS_Default to C:\CleanInstall\OS_Custom. This is so that you are modifying a copy of the OS rather than the or

• If you have run nLite before and you are going back to tweak the image, settings you used on previous runs will be shown here. Select the occasion

Introduction When I purchased my VGX-XL201 Media Center PC, I fully expected it to arrive preloaded with a myriad of freeware, trialware and Sony-bran

• This is where you select how much or how little customisation you want to do with your custom operating system image. • “Hotfixes and Update Packs

• This is where you can embed Microsoft hotfixes into the installation. In theory, you should be able to embed all of the hotfixes provided by Sony.

• This is where you embed device drivers into the installation. • Click “Insert” and select “Multiple Driver Folder”. Browse to C:\CleanInstall\Driv

• nLite will scan the folder you selected for drivers which it can use in the image. It won’t be able to use all of them because some of the drivers

• I don’t know which of these RAID drivers you actually need, but selecting all of them does no harm so I recommend doing that. Select all the driver

• Once you have selected all the drivers, you should see something like this.

• In order to prevent you from removing stuff you actually want on the next page, this compatibility list lets you choose what functionality you actu

• None of this is required for the purposes of this guide, but it’s cool to be able to knock out things from the installation you don’t want. Also, i

• Change as many or as few of these options as you like. The only one you need to enter is your product key. This can be found on the sticker on the

• Again, this page has no impact for the purposes of this guide. Change the options as you see fit.

Product Keys This guide was written with the assumption that methods described in Club VAIO forum threads for using the Windows product key from the s

• The patches tab also has no relevance to this guide, but I recommend the settings I have selected here. • The “Maximum unfinished simultaneous con

• I love this tab. Again, nothing to do with this process, change all or none of these features and it’ll make no difference to the process. What thi

• You’re ready to kick off the process of actually changing the installation CD contents. Press “Yes”. •

• The process is complete (nearly). We still need to embed the files we copied from the C: drive. • Copy the contents of C:\CleanInstall\I386 to C:\

• I suggest burning the installer to an ISO image. That way you can copy it, back it up and easily recreate it if the disc gets lost or damaged. Choo

• Use your preferred tool to burn the image to a DVD (or a CD if you’ve managed to hack out enough from the installation that the ISO is under 700MB)

Installing the Custom Operating System Install Image OK, by this point you should have an operating system disc completely customised to your requirem

After the disk as formatted your computer will restart. If you used nLite to fully automate the installation, the next time you interact with your com

Post-Installation Cleanup • For some reason unknown to me, as I ran through the installation, this worked example Windows created two entries in boot

You may want to format your D: drive now if you didn’t do so already during the installation process. At this point I like to reassign my drive lette

Creating the Recovery DVDs When you first power on your PC, you will have to go through the motions of finalising your installation of Windows. This i

Software Installation Now you should be at the stage where you have a working, clean installation of Windows, but you’re not finished yet. There is at

Intel Viiv Software You’ll probably find you actually can’t install this one until after you run Windows Update. It comes up with an error during ins

equivalent product to do it, but it saves you several steps in the reinstall process and is a nice clean way of getting back to a fresh newly installe

Codecs and Video Playback You’ll find until you’ve installed WinDVD or equivalent, you can’t complete Media Center setup. When you come to select the

I have found that if I choose slightly different settings, I end up with a jittery signal in Media Center on live TV, and sometimes no sound on live

Application Recovery DVD There is a veritable treasure trove of software on your Application Recovery DVD. Most of it you won’t want – in fact, the on

Create yourself a folder where you want to extract the applications to. For now, I’ll assume its C:\SonyApps. Create an MS-DOS batch file (just create

C:\KCAP.EXE E:\APR3\SP-012765-00.pac C:\SonyApps C:\KCAP.EXE E:\APR4\SP-008670-01.pac C:\SonyApps C:\KCAP.EXE E:\APR4\SP-009472-02.pac C:\SonyApps C:

SP-006356-08 Java Runtime Environment 1.5.0.06 SP-009681-01 Adobe Reader 7.0.5 SP-010812-01 Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 SP-005054-04 Memory Stick

SP-010838-02 VAIO Media Integrated Server SP-010862-03 VAIO Media Redistribution SP-011275-08 WinDVD BD for VAIO (This doesn’t seem to be the regu

• Run the VAIO Recovery Utility and select “Create Recovery Media Kit”. • Press “OK”.

Conclusion That’s it. By this point hopefully you have a clean operating system install on your VGX-XL201 VAIO Media Center, and only the software you

Acknowledgements Thanks to Blencogo, a Club VAIO member who helped me over the initial hurdle of installing the operating system on a PC with a SATA d

• Press “Next”.

• Choose the type of DVDs you want to burn. I don’t have any double layer recordable DVDs mostly because they are hugely more expensive than single l

• Press “Start” and give feed the application with blank discs as required. I made two copies of each for good measure but you only need one set. •

Returning to the Factory Installed Image Should you ever feel the need, you can restore your system to it’s factory default image at any time using th