SVF1531C5E downgrade to Windows 7 on SSD

fenric — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 23:09:23 GMT

hi,

I wonder if anyone can suggest what is going wrong with my plan to run Win7 on some very nice Vaio hardware?

1. Purchased SV-F1531C5E direct from Sony UK.

2. Removed Windows 8 HDD and replaced with Samsung SSD (original HDD never even booted up).

3. Installed genuine Windows 7 on new SSD.

Everything good so far, Win 7 boots up successfully, however, obviously need the Win7 drivers for this particular machine - screen fonts in VGA mode, no network etc.

5. Found and downloaded drivers in section Preinstalled Drivers and Utilities published at:

https://www.sony.co.uk/support/en/product/SVF1531C5E/updates

Still optimistic at this point.

However when installing them I get an error.

The error message is: "this computer does not meet the minimum requirements..."

The spec. of the above model will know that it is more than up to the task.

There must be something simple I am missing. Most strange. Has anyone else come across this situation?

With thanks in advance for any advice you can share.

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