Greetings! I'm looking for anyone who might have one of these beasts and has a copy of the Recovery discs with drivers. I've tried some clean installs of Windows 98SE and ME with no luck getting them to recognize much of the hardware. My internet searches for drivers has yielded a little love, but still no sound, networking, and a few "unknown" devices I assume are the TV tuners. A couple of sites known for scams offer up drivers, but that has been it as Sony no longer supports their PCs.
The original COA is for WinXP Home, so there is a chance that no drivers exist for any earlier OS. That said, I've found no XP drivers at all specific to the Sony, and only some generic drivers that might work if I'm pressed. Internet Archive was devoid of help, though I'm considering trying one of Sony's other Recovery discs from an earlier AIO that has XP and the drivers.
This is just a shot in the dark hoping someone in here may have one. I do still have options, but none of them pretty. These are pretty rare birds in the wild so I'm trying to save this one and get it running. I can say they are absolutely rubbish to upgrade or access the guts. I certainly understand why they sold poorly based on my own experiences. Still, it does look nice and is a quirky oddball for the collection. Thanks in advance.
edit: Apologies also if this should go down in the "Off Topic" area. I realize 19 years old is not exactly vintage, but in computer age it might just as well be as it is harder to come by stuff for this PC than many twice as old computers. And I figure that all the vintage PCs are saved/collected by people who also save and collect other PCs they might have used over the years. Men/women do not live these days on Amigas alone...
The original COA is for WinXP Home, so there is a chance that no drivers exist for any earlier OS. That said, I've found no XP drivers at all specific to the Sony, and only some generic drivers that might work if I'm pressed. Internet Archive was devoid of help, though I'm considering trying one of Sony's other Recovery discs from an earlier AIO that has XP and the drivers.
This is just a shot in the dark hoping someone in here may have one. I do still have options, but none of them pretty. These are pretty rare birds in the wild so I'm trying to save this one and get it running. I can say they are absolutely rubbish to upgrade or access the guts. I certainly understand why they sold poorly based on my own experiences. Still, it does look nice and is a quirky oddball for the collection. Thanks in advance.
edit: Apologies also if this should go down in the "Off Topic" area. I realize 19 years old is not exactly vintage, but in computer age it might just as well be as it is harder to come by stuff for this PC than many twice as old computers. And I figure that all the vintage PCs are saved/collected by people who also save and collect other PCs they might have used over the years. Men/women do not live these days on Amigas alone...
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