re: Upgrading from ME to XP Saturday, December 27, 2003 at 5:53 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by quinn (96 messages posted) I would format the drive and do a clean install, you will regret it if you don't. even if younmanage to install over Me. On Saturday, December 27, 2003 at 5:39 pm, Ron and Andy wrote: >Added note: We finished another round of installing and there is indeed no biosinfo.inf >file to be found anywhere on the hard drive. > >Went to the Sony Support page for this model and they have a BIOS update but the >update (called PHA2U0MNGZ.EXE) is only for a WinMe system which is fishy since the >laptop came with a rebate for WinXP. We found the WinXP BIOS update (called PHA3U0XNG4.EXE) >which of course says in big bold letters 'It is highly recommended to install this >BIOS before upgrading to Windows XP.' We'll report back... I'll post our results >so if someone finds this thru Google they'll know what's up. Written in response to: re: Upgrading from ME to XP (Andy: Saturday, December 27, 2003 at 5:39 pm) Responses to this message: re: Upgrading from ME to XP (Jack Tweelings: Friday, January 23, 2004 at 7:20 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Upgrading from ME to XP (Andy: Sat, Dec 27, 2003, 5:14 pm) re: Upgrading from ME to XP (Andy: Sat, Dec 27, 2003, 5:39 pm) re: Upgrading from ME to XP (quinn: Sat, Dec 27, 2003, 5:53 pm) re: Upgrading from ME to XP (Jack Tweelings: Fri, Jan 23, 2004, 7:20 am) re: Upgrading from ME to XP (triplate: Sat, Dec 27, 2003, 6:04 pm) re: Upgrading from ME to XP (Ricer46: Sat, Dec 27, 2003, 9:17 pm) re: Upgrading from ME to XP (GM: Sun, Dec 28, 2003, 6:17 am) re: Upgrading from ME to XP (LB: Sun, Dec 28, 2003, 9:10 am) re: Upgrading from ME to XP (Ricer46: Sun, Dec 28, 2003, 12:18 pm) re: Upgrading from ME to XP (LB: Sun, Dec 28, 2003, 4:02 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum