VAIO Update inconsistent with SONY support website

[takrzem]

Minor but rather annoying observation: since late January there are two updates reported by VAIO Update that stubbornly do not want to go away. Problem is that there are more up-to-date drivers @ SONY support that I have deployed in the meantime - but this does not seem to make much difference.

Details: SVF15A1C5E, upgraded to Win8.1. Updates in question are Realtek Audio Driver (05 Dec 2013 - there have been at least two newer releases since then!) & NVIDIA Graphics Driver (16 Oct 2013! - so actually even pre Win 8.1 release!).

SONY please fix and start being consistent with itself if possible please...

[takrzem]

Righto, two weeks down the line and another update:

SVF15A1C5ER

VAIO Update got itself updated (6.3.1.10120).  For some reasons it does show two different nVidia GFX drivers now at the same time (?) although I have definitely installed these manually aroound the release dates and I am sure current one is the latest one available (Jan 2013).

(wanted to insert screenshot here but got a strange message about 20.000 chars limit???)

SVP1322C5E

There must have been some changes as VAIO Update was showing three additional components recently:

BIOS upgrade

NFC component upgrade

VAIO Care Upgrade

Two last ones are not available on the support web pages though - also, support does not seem to be showing release dates anymore? Que?

Finally, as per two other recent threads:

http://community.sony.co.uk/t5/pcs-accessories/vpcj12m0e-update-issues-vaio-care-recovery-rescue-dat...

http://community.sony.co.uk/t5/pcs-accessories/more-vaio-update-problems-svd1322z9eb/td-p/1604013

It is simply impossible to download and deploy / install the above via VAIO Update as this operation results in an error. Threre's a workaround (look for these components in C:\Update as this is where VAIO Update downloads these to) and you may be able to deploy them yourself.