Sony giga pocket drivers.

I also have a Sony Vaio RB38G, however my issue is a bit different.

My system crashed before I could create the backup disks, so I installed XP Professional because I didn't have a MCE disk.

If I buy a MCE disk and install it, will it automatically figure out the TV Tuner is in the machine and work? Or do I need to do something else or get some drivers?

Thanks.

 

I have been using the TotalMedia3 (see previous pages) for a while (using XP Pro) on my RB38G instead of the original MCE version. Alot simpler than the MCE program and makes mpeg2 files instead of dvr-ms files. If you do go back to MCE, you will need all the original driver and tuner library files. Big pain without the recovery discs. You already have a MCE license when you bought your Vaio. Cheaper and less headache to buy or borrow a recovery disc. (although nothing works better than a nice fresh XP Pro installation)
Decisions, Decisions...

 

Yeah well I'm hoping to find someone with a recovery disk.... maybe ballinn93 has his )

 

I have the recovery disc (somewhere?).
If I can find it this weekend, maybe I can make a Nero Image and upload it. Can't promise what I don't have in my hand.

 

Agak if you can make a working image from that disk, you would officially be my best friend ever and I would fly to wherever you live to shake your hand. Keep me posted.

I've got ftp servers if you need somewhere to upload it, as well.

 

hey setspike, I dont have a recovery disk, I had the same problem about 6 Months ago, the only option I had was going to www.newegg.com and buying an MCE disk, I wound up getting two, I paid like over 100.00 I dont know how much it is now due to the fact vista is out... Id like to help you out but you have no disks that sucks = (

 

Heres the link to where I bought my disk from http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116171
I paid the same price

 

There are 2 dvds to make up the recovery set for RB38G.
removed

 

hey agak i downloaded one of those, and i have win zip on my computer, and i noticed nothing came out what happend i waited like an hour

 

You will need all 6 .rar files and will extract to 1 .iso (use winrar or IZArc
http://www.mrbass.org/freeware/izarc/IZArc_Setup36.exe
and burn .iso to DVD

Second disc is single .iso file. Just burn image to DVD.

 

It's only useful if you OWN the system. It's a far, far cry from piracy imho. There's no crack or anything.

 

I' not sure if i'm replying to the right message here but i have the giga-pocket that i took out of a sony vaio.Not sure of the correct number on the card cause its in my pc right now but its the one that ends with 26. And i have it working perfectly in windows vista ultimate. I downloaded some drivers from someone on this thread drivers and the software and i first installed on a xp machine worked fine. SO i used some files also from someone on here i think he said they were from media center 05 library i think called (SMRT) and vista didn't really approve of them but gave me the choice of installing them anyhow. So vista media center finds the tv signal scans for channels and works fine with it. Everything works and i'm using ultimate with the time stopper crack. Anyhow i saw a few people in here trying to find vista drivers so if you don't see the smrt download in this thread this message me. later

 

Agak thanks so much for your links! Got my install disks and my PC is like new again (the good part is that I have MCE, the bad part is that I had to uninstall all of Sony's extra crap lol)

 

lotdud,

could you post a link to the drivers, or upload them or somthing?

i am having tons of problems w/ getting it to work in visa ultimate....

 

Hi, I am running Windows Vista 32 bit on my VGC-RA828G Sony VAIO. I am having trouble finding the driver for my TV Tuner card that came with the machine, ever since the o/s migration windows media center says there is no tv tuner hardware found.

 

http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/swu-download.pl?mdl=PCVRS730G&upd_id=2444&os_id=27

try those drivers. then try installing beyond TV. Its the only thing that has worked for me.

 

Hey gfxbss this is what worked for me i got if off this thread
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2G0G8IRQ
i guess they are from mce2005 and they did work in vista mce. but now vista mce won't find the tuner but i'm pretty sure its something i did installing some other crap. I think i narrowed it down to a dvr program. But it did work perfectly so i'm gonna do a clean vista ultimate install and redo the drivers see if they work again. But its a temp fix untill or unless sony makes vista drivers for this card. good luck.