(Or if you have Ubuntu running on your laptop, just get if that way) You need to download from the acer drivers site a file called: Please, if anyone has got further than this with downgrading to XP, please let me know how you did it. I am hoping that if I get the eNet working, then when my computer searches the net for other drives, it will sort the rest out. Not sure why, because the installation of the eNet driver appears to run fine. If I click on the eNet Management icon that is part of the acer empowering technology I get an error and it bombs out. My “Other Devices” is all big yellow question marks and not working. If I go into Control Panel / System / Hardware / Device Manager I still have no graphics card driver and am stuck in 600 x 800 I did get my audio driver, power management, ePerformance, eSettings and a few other things going. net framework 1.1 from:īefore I could run the other drivers for Empowering Technology, so probably best to run this first. I then went through and installed them all by copying them onto the ACER hard drive and then going into the unzipped folders and clicking on Setup or Install or whatever looked best. (then I selected Asia Pacific to get to): I then downloaded all the XP files from this address: (from another computer) This worked OK, but I did not have any of the utilities that came with the acer like power management, audio, internet, video settings etc. I then decided that Vista was a waste of space so formatted my HD partitions that contained Vista and the Back-up Ghost. I installed it as a dual boot system so that I could run either Vista, or Ubuntu. I then installed Ubuntu (Feisty Fawn) and it worked a dream. If you supply a computer with an operating system that is too resource hungry for the system you have failed your customers and owe them assistance in making the best of it. It choked if I tried to play music through Vista’s media player and changed the margins in a 50pg word document at the same time. Especially since, when I ran CPU Usage monitor (ctrl+alt+delete, performance) the system ran at 17% – 35% when nothing was running. I was very disappointed by this response. Help on this would be found at Īddress: Unit 7/8 145 Arthur St Flemington NSW 2140 To possibly find drivers the website may be a good place to start.Īlso we do not have an instruction page for formatting and installing XP as we do not support removing our operating system and installing another under warranty. We do not use Linux and do not have any drivers for it. Any drivers provided on the website for other operating systems (XP) that we use on other systems are there as a courtesy. Microsoft may be able to downgrade vista to XP, their contact is 13 20 58.Īs for drivers, we only support the Operating System that is provided with the unit ie Vista. I emailed Acer regarding down grading to XP and got this reply: I have an Aspire 3680 that came installed with Vista.
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