13-11-2014, 10:42 AM
Your best option is to get the BIOS BIN file for that computer and flash it - however be warned, it may not want to flash because it would appear to the update utility to be the wrong board and hence not flash.
You could figure a way to force flash it, however if anything is wrong, it WILL completely destroy the BIOS - i.e. it won't boot anymore, so you can't flash anymore - you can de-solder the chip and reprogram it, but as a general rule, it's more hassle than it's worth.
Why do you need it anyway!? Shouldn't be that much stuff that doesn't work, the Sony Vaio update utilities are just going to be piles of bloatware... There's nothing generally in Windows that doesn't work... Personally I'd leave it alone, uninstall all the Sony bloatware and just use it without all that crap... You should be able to get just the drivers for each device and use it like that.
You could figure a way to force flash it, however if anything is wrong, it WILL completely destroy the BIOS - i.e. it won't boot anymore, so you can't flash anymore - you can de-solder the chip and reprogram it, but as a general rule, it's more hassle than it's worth.
Why do you need it anyway!? Shouldn't be that much stuff that doesn't work, the Sony Vaio update utilities are just going to be piles of bloatware... There's nothing generally in Windows that doesn't work... Personally I'd leave it alone, uninstall all the Sony bloatware and just use it without all that crap... You should be able to get just the drivers for each device and use it like that.
