topic My laptop doesn't exist according to Sony Support. in PCs & Accessories https://community.sony.dk/t5/pcs-accessories/my-laptop-doesn-t-exist-according-to-sony-support/m-p/694002#M10262 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P style=";">Hello,<BR type="_moz" /></P><P style=";"><BR /></P><P style=";"><BR /></P><P style=";">I bought this laptop from the Sony Outlet store back in late 2010.</P><P style=";"><BR /></P><P style=";">It is a sony vaio CW series with the model number: VPCCW2C5E (yes this is 100% correct)</P><P style=";"><BR /></P><P style=";">According to support- this has never existed. I've never been able to find it and I've always found myself installing drivers etc. from third party websites since sony just can't find my laptop.</P><P style=";"><BR /></P><P style=";">Now I've gotten to the stage of wanting to install my own SSD. However AHCI doesn't seem to exist in my BIOS. I've seen you can install a AHCI driver- however not if my laptop doesn't exist.</P><P style=";"><BR /></P><P style=";">Really rather ridiculous- I've already had this laptop sent back and forth about 3 times when I first bought it due to poor drivers on sonys behalf and a broken GPU.<BR type="_moz" /></P><P style=";"><BR /></P><P style=";"><BR /></P><P style=";">Any help?</P><P style=";"><BR /></P><P style=";">Thanks,</P><P style=";">Androidman<BR /></P><P style=";"><BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 29 Mar 2013 22:37:30 GMT androidman 2013-03-29T22:37:30Z My laptop doesn't exist according to Sony Support. https://community.sony.dk/t5/pcs-accessories/my-laptop-doesn-t-exist-according-to-sony-support/m-p/694002#M10262 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P style=";">Hello,<BR type="_moz" /></P><P style=";"><BR /></P><P style=";"><BR /></P><P style=";">I bought this laptop from the Sony Outlet store back in late 2010.</P><P style=";"><BR /></P><P style=";">It is a sony vaio CW series with the model number: VPCCW2C5E (yes this is 100% correct)</P><P style=";"><BR /></P><P style=";">According to support- this has never existed. I've never been able to find it and I've always found myself installing drivers etc. from third party websites since sony just can't find my laptop.</P><P style=";"><BR /></P><P style=";">Now I've gotten to the stage of wanting to install my own SSD. However AHCI doesn't seem to exist in my BIOS. I've seen you can install a AHCI driver- however not if my laptop doesn't exist.</P><P style=";"><BR /></P><P style=";">Really rather ridiculous- I've already had this laptop sent back and forth about 3 times when I first bought it due to poor drivers on sonys behalf and a broken GPU.<BR type="_moz" /></P><P style=";"><BR /></P><P style=";"><BR /></P><P style=";">Any help?</P><P style=";"><BR /></P><P style=";">Thanks,</P><P style=";">Androidman<BR /></P><P style=";"><BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 29 Mar 2013 22:37:30 GMT https://community.sony.dk/t5/pcs-accessories/my-laptop-doesn-t-exist-according-to-sony-support/m-p/694002#M10262 androidman 2013-03-29T22:37:30Z My laptop doesn't exist according to Sony Support. https://community.sony.dk/t5/pcs-accessories/my-laptop-doesn-t-exist-according-to-sony-support/m-p/694003#M10263 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><SPAN _mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">Hi androidman and welcome.</SPAN><BR /></P><P><BR /></P><P><SPAN _mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">The support website section with drivers for your Vaio seems to be in the normal place here: -</SPAN></P><P><BR /></P><P><SPAN _mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;"><A _mce_href="http://www.sony.co.uk/support/en/product/vpccw2c5e" class="active_link" href="http://www.sony.co.uk/support/en/product/vpccw2c5e">http://www.sony.co.uk/support/en/product/vpccw2c5e</A></SPAN></P><P><BR /></P><P><SPAN _mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">You will find all the available drivers and other software under the 'Downloads' Tab.</SPAN></P><P><BR /></P><P><SPAN _mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">There is a SATA Driver in the Preinstalled Drivers and Utilities section and during installation, you should be able to choose the AHCI driver version.<BR /></SPAN></P><P><BR /></P><P><SPAN _mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;"><img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://community.sony.dk/html/@13A2E6A3774A8B47B4EC6F04089539E1/images/smilies/063.png" alt=":thinking:" title=":thinking:" /><BR /></SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 29 Mar 2013 23:04:40 GMT https://community.sony.dk/t5/pcs-accessories/my-laptop-doesn-t-exist-according-to-sony-support/m-p/694003#M10263 Blencogo 2013-03-29T23:04:40Z