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At Last, someone has taken the time to come up with a handy guide for upgrading our JVC's to Vista.
Many thanks to Rich Webb for providing this useful information.
Installing
Vista on the JVC Mini-Note MP-XV841-US.
This article assumes that you are savvy enough
to at least get the vanilla install of vista running on your mini-note. I
am not responsible for causing data loss here and you do this entirely at
your own risk. I wrote this article based on Vista Ultimate with Service
Pack 1. I highly recommend you use service pack 1 because it fixes numerous
issues with Vista. Also, the drivers that are required for this to work are
the same drivers that are used for windows XP.
The first thing to I want to mention is I would
like to give credit to the folks at terabyteunlimited.com for the greatest
boot loader of all time - BootIt-NG(http://www.terabyteunlimited.com).
It is a great piece of software that allows you to have multiple operating
systems on your machine while each of them knows nothing about the others
and they all think they have exclusive rights to the c: drive. It also does
MUCH more than that. It's an integrated set of tools to allow not only
booting different operating systems, but also making images and resizing
partitions. I use this to have both Vista and XP residing on the same
computer.
Anyway - back
to Vista. At this point we are assuming that vista is installed and
running. You will notice that most of the hardware is detected by Vista
right out of the gate. The only thing that you have to deal with is the
audio hardware, the modem, and another unknown PCI device which has to do
with all the little hotkey buttons such as the volume and brightness
controls, the wireless switch, and the multimedia keys at the front of the
unit.
You will notice
that the sound device is not listed under unknown hardware. This is because
Vista incorrectly recognizes it as an Intel audio device.
We will start
with the sound drivers. You will want to extract the included sound drivers
into a folder on your C: drive. Next go into that folder and right-click on
the setup.exe file and choose properties.
Click the
compatibility tab, check the box "Run this program in compatibility mode
for:" and choose Windows XP sp2 from the drop down list of operating
systems.
Click
OK. Double-click to launch the setup.exe file. Allow it to install the
drivers and complete. It will ask you to restart the computer. I answered
no on mine and continued on installing the rest of the drivers. Once you do
restart, there will be an error message that says "No ADI codec driver is
installed." Don't panic, this message will only come up the first time you
restart and it doesn't seem to interfere with the operation of the audio
device, at least as far as I have tested with it.
Next we'll deal
with the modem. Go back to device manager and right-click "PCI Modem" and
choose Update Driver Software.
Then choose
Browse my computer for driver software.
Choose the
location of where you extracted the drivers.
Click OK and
then choose Next. Windows will install the driver and notify you when it's
complete.
Now the
only device remaining is the "Unknown device." Right click on it just as
you did with the modem and choose update driver software. Then click browse
and choose the location for the ATK ACPI Utility.
Click OK and then click Next. Windows will install the drivers for this
device and you will have a clean device manager.
That completes
the install of the drivers for Vista on the Mini-Note.
I hope that
this article was helpful for someone.