Installing Windows XP Professional SP2 on Acer Aspire 5315-2153 Laptop
This is for all of you who figured the Acer Aspire 5315-2153 (which comes packaged with Vista) would make a great Windows XP Professional notebook, for only $348 + the cost of windows… and then realized you had problems.
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There are two methods for getting this to work, one only requires the internet, a few minutes, and a CD burner. The other requires a USB floppy drive.
UPDATE: We’ve got a working modem driver now. Check out the tutorial on getting it up and running (should be installed last).
You’ll probably also need a USB thumb drive for either method, and of course your copy of WinXP.
You may have already tried to install WinXP on this notebook. With the BIOS set to it’s defaults, the WinXP install disk can’t even see it’s Hard Drive, and if you set the hard drive to a non AHCI mode in the BIOS (such as native emulation), you are increasing your risk of data corruption, and at the same time reducing your speed.
These two methods are the correct way to handle the situation, and result in no performance compromises.
NOTE: All data on the hard drive will be erased.
If you experience problems related to .DLL files, try DLLCentral.com for resources and downloads.
The Floppy Method
First we’ll explain the floppy method, as it’s the fastest if you’ve already got the floppy drive and a blank floppy.
Download the floppy creator from here: f6_floppy_maker.zip
Extract the executable from the zip archive, insert a blank floppy, and run the executable, following the prompts to create an “F6 Driver Floppy.”
Attach your USB floppy drive to the new Acer notebook.
In order to be able to boot from the CD, we’ll first need to make a couple of quick changes in the notebook’s BIOS. Click here for instructions on modifying the BIOS settings.
Now boot your notebook from your WinXP install disk. One of the first prompts once the screen turns blue is to hit F6 to use a driver floppy.
Hit F6, insert the driver floppy. Windows won’t really give you any prompt that you’ve done things right, it will just keep installing for a while. After some time, windows will ask you to pick which driver off of the floppy you want — you should choose “Intel(R) 82801HEM/HBM SATA AHCI Controller (Mobile ICH8M-E/M).” Be sure to leave the floppy in during the install, as windows will periodically pull files off of it until the installation is complete.
The Windows installer will ask you to where you’d like install Windows XP… follow the prompts to delete all the current partitions, then follow the prompts to create a new partition, and install Windows XP to that. You may chose the “quick format” to speed things up.
After windows is done installing, you’ll need to install some drivers. Acer isn’t providing a driver set for WinXP on this notebook.
We recommend installing drivers in this order:
- Realtek HD Audio Driver
- Intel Chipset Driver
- Intel Graphics Driver
- Atheros WiFi Driver
- Broadcom Ethernet Driver
- Launch Manager
- Touchpad Driver
- Acer Empowering Framework
- Acer ePower Management
Alternatively, you can download all of these (except for the last three) at once in a single 46MB zip file. Remember that these are specific to the Acer Aspire 5315.
The Broadcom drivers must be installed through the device manager, the rest have installation executables which should be used. Sometimes you have to have windows “Update Driver” on an unknown PCI device in order to get the Realtek to work.
We have a working modem driver. Check out the separate tutorial on getting it up and running (should be installed last).
Internet and CD burner Method
The second method is slightly more advanced, and intended for those of you who no longer have floppy drives of any kind. Or at least none of the USB kind.
First download and install nLite.
(Requires .NET Framework 2.0, you’ve probably already got that, but if nLite won’t run, download the .NET Framework)
Now download and extract the slipstream drivers to a folder like C:\Drivers-temp\
Insert your WinXP install disk, cancel out of the autorun if it pops up.
Start up nLite, click next on the splash screen. Tell it where your CD is. It will ask you to tell it where to cache the files at. You can just use a folder like C:\XP-temp\ for that.
On the “Presets” screen, click Next again. Now click on the “Drivers” button, as well as the “Bootable ISO” button, then click “Next”
On the “Drivers” screen, click “Insert”, then “Multiple Driver Folder”. Point nLite to the location where you extracted the slipstream drivers, such as C:\Drivers-temp\ and then click OK.
On the “Select multiple drivers to integrate” window you’ll need to highlight the path at the top (such as C:\Drivers-temp\) by clicking on it once, then click “OK”.
On the “Driver Integration Options” window under “Textmode integration options” highlight the whole list by clicking once on the top item, then shift-clicking once on the bottom item. With that list still highlighted, click “OK” at the bottom.
Back on the “Drivers” screen, click “Next”. The “Apply Changes:” dialog should pop up, asking if you really want to start the process. Click “Yes”.
After the processing completes, you’ll need to click “Next”, at which point you’ll be taken to the final screen.
On the “Bootable ISO” screen, change the “Mode” drop down menu from “Create Image” to “Direct Burn”. Eject your WinXP disk, and insert a blank disk into your burner. For safety’s sake, put a check mark next to “Verify”.
Finally, click Burn.
Congratulations, you now have a proper install disk for the Acer 5315-2153.
Now you’ll need to boot your laptop from that disk. In order to be able to boot from the CD, we’ll first need to make a couple of quick changes in the notebook’s BIOS. Click here for instructions on modifying the BIOS settings.
After it gets started, windows installer will ask you where you’d like to install Windows XP to: follow the prompts to delete all the current partitions, then follow the prompts to create a new partition, and install Windows XP to that. You can chose the “Quick Format” to speed things up.
Follow the rest of the prompts to windows in the usual fashion.
Next, use the following drivers to get all your hardware set up, since Acer is providing only Vista support on this notebook so far.
We recommend installing drivers in this order:
- Realtek HD Audio Driver
- Intel Chipset Driver
- Intel Graphics Driver
- Atheros WiFi Driver
- Broadcom Ethernet Driver
- Launch Manager
- Touchpad Driver
- Acer Empowering Framework
- Acer ePower Management
Alternatively, you can download all of these (except for the last three) at once in a single 46MB zip file. Remember that these are specific to the Acer Aspire 5315.
The Broadcom drivers must be installed through the device manager, the rest have installation executables which should be used. Sometimes you have to have windows “Update Driver” on an unknown PCI device in order to get the Realtek to work.
We have a working modem driver. Check out the separate tutorial on getting it up and running (should be installed last).
Modifying the BIOS Settings
Shut the notebook completely down. Now turn it back on, and as soon as the Acer screen comes up, hit the “F2″ key to enter the BIOS. Navigate to the second page of the BIOS (titled “Main”) by pressing the right arrow key.
You may wish to turn of “Network Boot” by selecting it with your arrow keys and hitting enter, then changing it to disabled. This is often used in a cluster-lab environment, and for normal users only slows down your boot process.
You must now turn on the F12 Boot Menu by selecting it with your arrow keys, hitting Enter, and changing it to “Enabled”
Now switch to the “Exit” page, and hit Enter to “Exit Saving Changes”. The BIOS will ask you to confirm, tell it “Yes”.
Now the notebook will reboot, and you must hit F12 to boot from your CD.
On the “Boot Manager” screen, chose the second option which should be an ATAPI drive, such as a DVD-RW or CD-RW, highlight it with your arrow keys and press Enter.
Back to the Floppy disk method
Back to the Internet and CD burner method
Modem Driver Installation
Extract the Agere modem drivers zip archive somewhere on the Acer notebook.
The links in this list go to step-by-step screenshots! Full album here.
- Click on your “START” menu
- Right click on “My Computer”
- Click on “Properties”
- Click on the “Hardware” tab at the top
- Click on “Device Manager”
- Right click on “Modem Device on High Definition Audio Bus”
- Click on “Update Driver…”
- Click on “No, not this time.” Click Next.
- Click on “Install from a list or specific location (Advanced).” Click Next
- Click on “Don’t Search. I will choose the driver to install.” Click Next.
- In the list on the “Hardware Type” page, highlight “Modems”. You may have to scroll down. Click Next.
- Click on “Have Disk…”
- Click on “Browse” and navigate to where you extracted the Agere Modem drivers. Highlight the “agrmdv32″ file and click Open. Click OK.
- Highlight Agere Systems HDA Modem. Click Next.
- Click Yes on the “Update Driver Warning” dialog.
You should now have a working modem.
YMMV, if these drivers don’t work, try using the Foxconn drivers.
This tutorial was written by IT enthusiast and expert Alex Wells, published exclusively on soulpass.com.
November 10th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
Could these be the ACHI drivers for XP?
ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/…tel_v7.5.0.1017_XP.zip
November 10th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
Takes a long time. Will let you know if it works.
November 11th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
those are indeed working AHCI drivers, although they appear to be a much older version of the ones we provide on the above article.. those AHCI_Intel_v7.5.0.1017_XP.zip files show 7.0.0.1012 in the actual INF, while ours are 7.8.0.1012
stay tuned for High Definition Audio (HDA) Bus Modem drivers later today, they should be ready in a few hours.
November 12th, 2007 at 11:24 am
does this work
November 12th, 2007 at 12:28 pm
Yes, it does.
November 12th, 2007 at 3:26 pm
hi,
does it only work for 5315-2153 or all 5315 models?
got 5315-050508Mi model
thx
November 12th, 2007 at 4:24 pm
the floppy method hang at the second prompt for the disk a: containing the Intel Matrix driver, press Enter and nothing happened, just F3=Quit.
November 12th, 2007 at 4:34 pm
Erwin, could you please describe in more detail what led up to that, and the exact error message? If you could post a screenshot that’d be great too…
November 12th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
Weapon FR, you should be able to use the same WinXP CD (made with nLite), but you may be lacking a couple of drivers.. if you take it apart and send us high-res pics, we might be able to help with that too… need pics of everything you are missing drivers for, like WiFi card, Modem… (modem is installed -under- the WiFi card on that chassis!).
Realistically, the whole guide should probably work for you -except- the WiFi, Modem, and Card-Reader drivers. I’m not sure whether the card-reader needs drivers. Why don’t you try it and let us know? You’ve got very little to lose.
November 12th, 2007 at 5:44 pm
I tried to install unattended XP Prof SP2 from a CD allready I used before, using the F6 and the floppy driver diskette, the instalation procedure stop after format and copy files, prompt me again for the Intel Matrix driver provided on the floppy, but nothing happened when I press Enter, the usb-floppy drive did not respond and install failed.
I try next install the system with the IDE mode on the Bios Setup, everything s work fine, except the wifi, that is not the Atheros Wireless card; I have the Broadcom BCM94311MCG instead. I downloaded the driver from http://www.x-drivers.com but it won’t work yet, I will try to get another one.
November 12th, 2007 at 6:48 pm
Erwin - again, we recommend against “IDE Mode” aka “Native Mode”.. the problem with the “Floppy Method” may just be that you are using an unattended disk. Why don’t you try using a -normal- XP Pro SP2 disk? no reason to add weird factors like an unattended install when you’re obviously going to have to attend it anyway, due to the drivers…
do you have an Acer Aspire 5315-2153, or some other model?
this package is intended for the Aspire 5610z, it should work for your wireless.
Acer Wireless BCM94311MCG
http://www.acerpanam.com/synap…211bg_Broadcom_v4.2.2.7.zip
November 13th, 2007 at 3:44 pm
There’s nothing all wrong with avoiding the whole ACHI mess and just selecting IDE mode. It’s usually faster than ACHI anyway.
November 13th, 2007 at 6:01 pm
Merci beaucoup Alex
it works very fine…I only used audio driver from acer’s website and now,adieu Vista et bonjour Xp^^
tell me when you come to france.it’ll be a pleasure to see you
bye!
November 15th, 2007 at 6:37 am
Ok, I keep getting an error when tryign to install the Realtek HD Audio drivers. It goes through the installshield stuff, then the installer bar with the Realtek logo on the left wide pops up. The bar gets about 2/3rds of the way across when it crashes with the message of “Install Realtek HD Audio Failure !!”
That’s it. Nothing else I try will work. I can’t even select “update driver” or “reinstall driver” from the Device Manager, or from when Windows detects there’s a device.
I’ve tried all version:
http://files.soulpass.com/acer/realtek_hd_audio_driver.zip
http://files.soulpass.com/acer/acer_5315_tutorial_allfiles.zip
and the ones from Acer’s web page.
Now what?
November 15th, 2007 at 6:37 pm
Hello, wanted to give a great big Thank You. I messed with my Brother in laws Acer for an hour, found this site (installed the Internet and CD burner method) it works great. you saved me hours of the run around on the internet. Folks read this guide step by step and you will be pleased!
November 16th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
Thanks for the kind words everyone!
November 16th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
Thank you so much for posting this information. I have my Acer ~almost~ perfect. Still missing the High Definition Audio (HDA) Bus Modem drivers. Have you posted that link, yet? Also missing a driver for Ethernet Controller - although my Ethernet connection is currently working. Any idea on what I’m missing there? thanks again for all of your support.
November 16th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
Thank you, I have followed the instructions and I have installed windows xp. Now I have a problem, I’ve downloaded the webcam driver “Bison”, “Chicony” and “Suyin”. Only “Bison” driver work, but the image appears turned around. Any idea about this.
Thanks and sorry for my english.
November 16th, 2007 at 5:26 pm
@ Javivi please post a screenshot. Which way is video turned? Rotated or Flipped? Which model Aspire do you have? (5315-XXXX?) Your English is nearly perfect.
@ Kelli. The missing “Ethernet Driver” may be your WiFi, is that installed yet? the HDA bus modem tutorial is on this page, here’s the link to the right section:
http://soulpass.com/2007/11/10/installi…re-5315-2153-laptop/#modem
if that doesn’t work, let us know. what country are you in? different modems are used for different areas! we can help you get the right modem drivers though. are you running an Aspire 5315-2153 or some other model?
November 17th, 2007 at 5:51 am
Attached I send you a screenshot of the problem with my webcam:
http://img266.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picture0001ks3.jpg
My Aspire model is 5315-051G12Mi
Thank you
November 17th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
Javivi, do you have the Bison camera application installed? if so, try to do this.
Go to the “Options” menu, hit “Video Capture Filter”, then go to “Rotation”. From there, set it to “Vertical Flip”.
November 18th, 2007 at 4:52 am
Ok, I go to “Options” menu, “Video Capture Filter”, “Rotation” and this and another option is not possible to mark, only can to mark “Exposition”
Here you can see a screenshot.
http://img266.imageshack.us/my.php?image=errorwebcamcy7.jpg
Any idea?
Thanks
November 18th, 2007 at 11:22 pm
Javivi, it -looks- like you may have the wrong Bison driver installed.
did you run -both- the installers acer provides for Bison, the “camera” and the “application” installers?
it looks like WinXP might have picked the wrong one, and you might have to manually tell it to use a different driver, similar to what we do with the “Modem” driver in this guide. you might have to tell windows to use a “specific” bison webcam driver.
you might also be able to “uninstall” the bison camera, through the “Device Manager” and then let windows re-install it automatically after you restart, and see what happens.
November 19th, 2007 at 7:04 am
I found a whole lot of drivers for this notebook. Many which seem to be for windows xp. Did you get yours from here or are these maybe newer?
http://www.acerpanam.com/syna…D=4579013&CFTOKEN=98236837
Thanks for this great article!
November 19th, 2007 at 8:25 am
THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I put the driver manually similar to install the modem and the webcam works fine.
One question more:
Is possible to put the “empowering technology” software of Acer in Windows XP?
Thank for all.
November 19th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
Yonder - our drivers didn’t come from that list. I’ve seen it around the forums, I know that:
- some of our drivers are newer
- some aren’t even on that list at all
- some are probably the same version as on the list
Javivi - I’m glad we’ve got you all up and running now. I honestly don’t know much about the “Empowering Technology” software, unlike the drivers. Now that you have everything -working- right, you should probably set a system restore point before doing any more experimentation!
Are there specific Empowering Technology programs you want?
you could try the ones intended for older variations of the 5000 series notebooks, such as these:
http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/notebook/as_5050.html
you could also try the “Vista” programs under WinXP, just to see what happens…
http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/notebook/as_5315.html
let us know how you do
November 20th, 2007 at 4:45 am
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November 20th, 2007 at 9:23 am
Hey Everybuddy! Just post this message to thanks this site to exist and all the guys behind… cause I am coming from far away to have my XP running on my Acer 5315! Why is Acer support (ftp)so empty about other Operating system inclulind at least XP!
So thank you all sincerly! Vraiment Merci les amis!
November 20th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
ALEX ROCKS!
The modem is now working, the missing ‘ethernet’ driver was the wireless and my Acer is 100% working. This page is on my favorites - and Alex IS my favorite tech! Thank you, once again, for this amazing forum.
Kelli -> off to create a restore point.
November 21st, 2007 at 12:06 pm
Kelli, jerome, Mikhail… glad you guys are all running now! (at least I think Mikhail is, I can’t speak a word of Russian, but Babelfish -seems- to say that you’ve got it working…)
thanks for the kind words everyone.
November 25th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
When first got my Acer 5315, all efforts to create the restore CD’s have failed. I understand this only will work one time and apparently my machine thinks I have already done this. This leads to 3 questions: 1) Is my hidden restore partition now useless? 2) Will your XP install process remove the hidden partition? 3) Will I still have a C: and D: partition or will it be one larger partition?
November 25th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
Bill, I’m not entirely certain, but I think it would be fair to say that your restore partition is now useless. You should be allowed to order replacement restore media from Acer though for a nominal fee, probably around $6-14 (USD). Following this guide for installing Windows XP removes the hidden restore partition, you will have only the C: partition (with the full formatted capacity of your drive, hopefully).
November 26th, 2007 at 7:03 pm
Hi, you are the best, all was correct. Thenk You very very mutch.
sorry for bad english.
P.S. CD matod more efective
Giggga
November 28th, 2007 at 7:17 am
After finding a simple hack to re-use the OEM license file and an Anytime Upgrade DVD… I created a custom DVD-RW of Vista Ultimate using vLite. Then I booted with an XP CD to delete the original partitions.
I made restore DVDs first by using a USB2 to IDE cable temp connected to a DVD burner in my desktop PC.
Without the screwed up formatting it had originally (Paragon Partition Manager and other such apps claimed that C: was not only not formatted but it was a 32gig FAT16 partition) it’s MUCH FASTER with Vista Ultimate- minus some of the bloat like Windows Defender.
My first thought when I got this laptop was to install XP, I search for and downloaded all the XP drivers. Then I decided to keep Vista, at least for a while, because I do freelance PC service and eventually I’ll have to help people with Vista problems.
And to my surprise, when the Intel video driver install ran the performance test, it decided it was fast enough to enable Aero Glass. (I may change it, again, to Classic.) Before I “nuked and paved” I used the hack to upgrade to Ultimate and the Intel video driver install *didn’t* detect it as being fast enough for Aero Glass. Acer’s preloaded load of junk and their screwy drive formatting bogs it down a bunch.
BTW, the “hack” to upgrade to Ultimate is “built into” OEM Vista installs! You just run a command prompt as administrator AFTER installing Ultimate with the OEM Ultimate key for your brand of PC- then enter a specific command to reinstall the original OEM license file. (It’s in c:\windows\system32\OEM You should just make a copy of the whole OEM folder.)
No activation required!
Can you say “Microsoft R Dumb”?
November 28th, 2007 at 8:31 am
Perfect- followed the steps as indicated and my new laptop is usable again!
November 28th, 2007 at 4:49 pm
(The laptop is acer aspire 5315.)
This webpage is great but I have a problem.
Firstly I would like to list the method I used to revert to win xp pro from vista. I changed setting in bios to ide emulation to install win xp pro. During installation I notice 3 partitions…C:,D:,F:. A Hidden partition is so rude! I erased partition C: and installed win xp pro on that. I did not delte any other partitions at this time.
Once installed I then booted win 2003 web OS cd to delete the hidden partition and installed the win 2003 OS on partition D: (2 operating systems - win xp on C: win 2k3 on D:). Once win 2003 was up and running I booted from win xp pro cd and deleted both partitions completely and installed a fresh copy of xp pro.
Everything had been working for about 48 hours until now. My parents just got off the phone to tell me that the laptop keeps automatically restarting whilst she’s surfing the web. Immediately I think of hdd instability.
I’m asuming I need to switch back from ide emulation? How do I install the matrix software? There is no floppy drive.
THANKS
November 28th, 2007 at 7:08 pm
Robert - honestly, off the bat I might assume that something else was bad, RAM, HDD, or some other component. It doesn’t hurt to check those with the utilities on a CD such as the Ultimate Boot CD (aka UBCD), which is free. I use Memtest86 (under the motherboard tests section) to test the RAM and the IBM/Hitachi Drive Fitness Test (aka IBM/Hitachi DFT) to check the HDD… if you want to check the CPU as well, you can use the Mersenne Prime test (from the Motherboard / CPU section). all that aside… if you just want to jump into reinstalling the “proper” way, you should follow the “Internet and CD burner Method”, it’s really very simple and obviously works perfectly.
if the HDD is bad, I would just buy a new one… anything else, I’d pull the HDD, call acer, get an RMA and mention to them that the HDD contains sensitive data and you may not return it to them… that way they can’t whine about the XP install which really had nothing to do with any CPU failure.
bizzybody - honestly the “last straw” that made me like these laptops are the GMA3100 graphics, which Intel launched in order to allow their onboard graphics to run Aero Glass, which the GMA900 graphics found on most notebooks today is not appropriate for. Other than machines built to play DX10 games (read Crysis, UT3, Bioshock) and a test machine or two, I don’t plan on putting vista on anything I directly oversee for the time being. My 5315 will never have vista, and probably never have any upgrades.. I bought this thing to install XP on it. I hate to be a hard-ass, but have you considered whether your “Vista Anytime Upgrade” trick is legit? eg… everybody loves to say “Oh I have a legit copy of Vista” and have a clear conscience… but are you operating within the terms of your license? if not, then you have an illegitimate copy of Vista, and should not feel any better than if you installed a straight bootleg copy. I don’t intend to be mean, I just want people to consider the implications of their “hacks” vs software licensing…. all those hacks accomplish is keep WGA off your back, not make you Legit, AFAIK. again.. not trying to cut you down, but at the same time I don’t want visitors to get the wrong idea on the legality of that hack.
November 30th, 2007 at 2:32 am
Hi !
I have been searching for info on “upgrading” to XP for an Acer 5610z.
I am the “Chosen One” for installing (destroying), and REALLY don’t want to screw it up. Do the same steps and drivers in the article apply to this laptop? If not, can you help someone who’s mouth has overloaded their knowledge???
November 30th, 2007 at 2:33 am
This is a friend’s laptop, by the way.
November 30th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
Hy guys,
Thanks for this page.
As any of you gone for Win 98 SE instead of XP ?
November 30th, 2007 at 8:55 pm
John, that might be a little hard. Honestly, back in the day, Win98 was better, but now… WinXP is better than Win98… why do you need Win98, for what program?
I don’t think Win98 can support most of the features, like the HD Audio, the HD Audio Modem, the WiFi, etc…. Intel does not support using Win98 with the chipsets the Aspire 5315 uses, so…. you’d have to switch SATA to the less desirable “IDE Mode”, then you would install Win98 as normal, but it would be a total mess without Intel Chipset drivers… bad graphics, no sound, no modem, no WiFi, no Ethernet (i think?), no nothing basically… not even sure the touchpad would work.
you might be able to use an older unified package, but I doubt it, and i’m not going to try unless I hear a “really good excuse” for using windows 98…. and i mean -really- good, it has to be enough to get me curious enough to install Win98 on one of my own.
November 30th, 2007 at 9:21 pm
Jenny - well, as far as I know, all 5610z drivers are available, I’m pretty certain this page has all of them:
http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/notebook/as_5610z.html
the real question here is how to get XP on the thing in the first place… does the XP install disk say “No Hard Drives Found”?? if it shows your hard disk at the beginning of the WinXP installation (like normal), then just install that way (and then use the Acer driver page I linked to right above for all your drivers). If it does -not-, then we need to figure out what SATA controller that thing has… good thing it’s easy to do, right? We’ll need to open the device manager in Vista. Follow these instructions…
Click on the Start Menu
Click on Run
Type in “devmgmt.msc” without the quotes
Hit the Enter key
Click the + symbol next to “IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers” if present
[Carefully type up everything listed under that, post the info here.]
Click the + symbol next to “Storage controllers”
[Carefully type up everything listed under that, post the info here.]
from that we can see what SATA controller you have, then you can follow the nLite portion of our “CD Method” instructions to get rolling. It’s probably running an Intel chipset, if it is… you can just go ahead and follow the instructions outright, with no modifications. If it’s using another controller, we’ll have to modify the instructions a tad for you.
December 1st, 2007 at 4:31 am
Thanks Alex for the answer.
The only good excuse to use win98SE is that I own a legal copy of it …
and as this computer is not mine, I don’t feel like “cheating”. More over, win98SE should use less ressources no ?
This computer is going to be a media box (mp3, avi, jpg, cd and dvd) for my mother, so nothing big. She doesn’t know anything yet about computers.
The idea is, she just need one click on the desktop to view or listen what she wish (Geebox is way to complicated for elderly people).
December 1st, 2007 at 8:44 pm
John - well… yeah, you hit a couple of good points. Legit XP costs megabux if you don’t already have a retail copy to uninstall from another machine. Vista is a steep wall for older folks to climb. Honestly at this point, I think it’s safe to say that Win98 can’t -allocate- enough resources to “use less,” lol. OK that was a mean joke on Win98, but it’s sort of true.. I doubt you would (hypothetically) see much of a speed jump, but since the critical networking drivers won’t go (modem/ethernet/wifi), you’re stuck w/ a newer OS.
and since you already use Geexbox, suggesting Ubuntu or Debian would seem be mostly pointless.. EXCEPT you really might want to look into something like an already stable release (maybe 6.06) of Ubuntu, possibly Xubuntu… free, and a distro like Xubuntu can be (fairly easily) made -painfully- simple looking. there are guides on how to install full codec support, although i’ve personally always ended up using either mplayer or VLC for videos, and XMMS/BMP/Audacious (the second 2 are just newer forks of XMMS1) since I can’t get the default players to do work.
older folks seem to be less scared of it if it looks like a cross between Win95 and MacOS 7.5, know what I mean?
http://www.xubuntu.org
Xubuntu is supposed to be really fast, people always brag about how fast Xfce (the window manager / desktop environment Xubuntu uses) is… I normally run Ubuntu so I couldn’t say for sure, other than what I said above.. XFCE can be made to look very oldschool and friendly. worth a try at least.
there are already big discussions elsewhere on the internet about getting WiFi and HD-Audio Modem (don’t hold your breath on the modem I think) to work in Ubuntu, i’m not all that sure what the results were.
be sure to turn Multiple Desktops down to 1, to prevent frantic phone calls in the night about solitaire games suddenly going missing…
be interested to know what you settle on. if you choose to attempt a 98 installation (using IDE Mode), feel free to ask for help getting things to work (if it’s possible)… i’m just not going to do it on any of mine.
December 1st, 2007 at 10:52 pm
I couldn’t dig Audio codec for Aspire 5315 050508Mi but Acer Aspire 5315-052G16Mi has Realtek LC203 (”Advanced AC’97 Rev 2.3 Audio CODEC”).
This is not HD audio, at least not Intel HD?
Which mean the modem is also not HD?
Anyone knows which codec 5315 050508Mi use?
Realtek v.0.1.5413 or5443 maybe?
December 2nd, 2007 at 4:57 pm
bob - you are correc,t AC’97 is -not- HD Audio (which is an intel standard, anything else is just marketing… the Realtek HD Audio stuff all follows the Intel HDA standard). you’ll want to have the sound drivers installed before you mess with the modem either way though: AC’97 modems exist as well as HDA modems!
i’d try the HDA installer first, it carries some older AC’97 drivers as well, unless I am mistaken. if that doesn’t work, post back.
December 3rd, 2007 at 8:49 pm
Alright, I’ve been wanting to install XP on my Acer 5315 since I first purchased it. I haven’t gone through with it yet but I’ve read about the install procedure and I’m going to give it a try later tonight. I’ll post again if I run into any issues along the way. Thank you guys for all your hard work, and I hope this works out well.
Fall3n ~
December 3rd, 2007 at 10:35 pm
Guys, Thanks for all the hard work putting this together, used the CD methoid and worked like a charm, saved me hours of endless searching.
-Cross
December 4th, 2007 at 9:56 am
Thanks for the drivers, Alex. I already had installed by selecting IDE over AHCI in BIOS. Any alternative solutions regarding the ethernet port? Mine doesn’t seem to get all the DHCP settings correctly from its cable modem connection. Also had to find a touchpad driver so I could disable the tapping. Any clues why a USB mouse on this might hang frequently?
December 4th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
Just wondering if any of you are having the overheating/shutdown problem?
It appears that you need the Acer ePower Management utility that part of the Empowering Technology Suite to control the CPU fan properly. What I was experiencing, which was confirmed by Acer and other forums, that when the computer awoke from being suspended(sleep mode) the CPU fan would no longer run. Causing the CPU to slowly overheat and finally causing the computer to shutdown.
I was able to make this happen in XP and Vista (when I unloaded the Acer ePower Management Utility).
-Richard
December 4th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
Alex , my man , you are number one….
you really give us golden informations about 5315…
December 4th, 2007 at 10:23 pm
Have tried this and I have installed xp, thanks, but the audio drivers do not work. Which audio drivers has everyone used? thanks
December 5th, 2007 at 8:06 am
OK my ISP caused “ethernet” prob and a new USB mouse resolved mouse prob so we’re good to go. Thanks again, Alex.
December 5th, 2007 at 5:12 pm
hi…
can i ask a question to you Alex ??
At the start of second method we make a proper install disk for the Acer 5315,ok,but i couldn’t understand when or where we’ll use the proper install disk ???
Before installing Windows XP or after finished installation XP ???
I apologize for my grammar
thank you so much….
December 5th, 2007 at 7:51 pm
Kimi - the second method (”Internet and CD burner Method”) actually makes a -new- XP install disk. you need to install XP off of that, instead of a normal XP install disk!
Paul - good stuff, glad everything ended up being simple issues.
James - Audio drivers -do- work. You (probably) do not have an Acer Aspire 5315-2153, please post your actual model number… otherwise your download must be corrupt, or.. who knows? either way, post up with more info. if it -is- an Aspire 5315-2153, post up about what store you bought it from, what country you were in at the time, etc.
Cross - glad everything went smoothly.
Fall3nPutz - hope everything goes smoothly.
Richard - wow, i had no idea… i’ve played around with mine a -lot-, and managed not to notice this behavior…. until you pointed it out. From my brief tests, it appears that if you put it to sleep while the fan -is- spinning, it will continue to work after you wake it up. if you put it to sleep with the fan -not- spinning, it will not work when you wake it up. I am taking a look at solutions right now. Thanks again for pointing out this debilitating flaw!
December 5th, 2007 at 11:26 pm
This Tutorial helped solve all of my problems, Headaches and Hassles, getting rid of (”Vista the nagger”) And all of the unwanted crap that comes with a “store - bought puter”. Even though my XP Pro disk was sp1 and all the updates and sp2 took a few minutes to download from good OL “Billy-Bob Gates” all went well!! Now that Windows is all updated and SET I will download the slipstream drivers and create a New Bootable DVD with this EXCELLENT tutorial.
Thanx Alex
December 6th, 2007 at 3:30 am
Do the Intel Matrix Storage (SATA) drivers work with the Intel Celeron Processor that is in the 5315?
Also I’m considering keeping Vista, but how do I install the SATA drivers for that operating system? The Intel website states that the F6 method does not apply to Vista. I guess you’re supposed to be able to use USB, or a CD with the drivers. Alex do you know about this? I’d appreciate your help.
IDK if it would help anybody or not, but you may be able to find drivers on the acer euro ftp site.
December 6th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
zapped the vista off my 5610Z & loaded up XP Home following your instructions and everything is almost fine.
Exception that I have 2 drivers that show up in device manager that I cannot find, “Ethernet controller” & “Modem Device on High Definition Audio Bus”. I burned all the driver downloads available for the aspire 5610Z off the Acer support website onto a CD but the device search for the missing drivers did not turn anything up. I’d appreciate if anyone could help resove the remaining device issues but I really have to thank you for all the great instructions which were provided.
December 6th, 2007 at 5:46 pm
I too am having the problem that Richard reports (I suspect all of you are, you just might not have noticed.) There is a good thread on the ubuntu forums ( http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=604158 ) but unfortunately, no good news or solution. I called Acer and of course they had no ideas and asked me to send it in. I am not sending it in because I figure I will get the same Vista+Acer Software back from them.
Other than this one issue, the solution listed here worked fine. My coworker bought the same laptop at the same time as me. He is constantly complaining about Vista, while my machine hums along. I figure at this point, its better to let it fall asleep when in battery mode, then I can wake it up, save anything I was working on and reboot rather than letting it overheat and lose data. Even with this inconvenience, I’m much happier with XP than I was with Vista.
Hope we get a solution, but I’m not being overly optimistic at this point. Thank you for this guide though…super helpful! Cheers!
December 6th, 2007 at 8:04 pm
Carl, the 5315 comes bundled with Vista, and working SATA drivers. This tutorial is actually just for those who want to “upgrade” the 5315 with XP… If you want to keep Vista, you should be good with the laptop out of the box and won’t have any use for the files in this tutorial.. Just filling in for Alex on this one…
December 7th, 2007 at 4:39 am
I have successfully installed WinXP Pro on my 5315-2153. I played with Vista for a couple of days and decided it was horrible. I get the ‘no fan’ problem too. I’ll be cruising along just fine, then all of a sudden it just shuts off. I wait few minutes, then it restarts with no problem. Hopefully there will a solution to this problem soon. Is there any software that will allow me to control the fan? Is there any advantage to AHCI over IDE drives? Great website BTW!
December 7th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
-Could WIN98SE run on 5315 from inside of some Virtual Machine running on XP?
(sorry to bother with 98 again, just for IE5)
December 7th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
Bob, that would probably be the best idea…
As far as I know, Virtual PC 2007 is a free download.
December 7th, 2007 at 7:06 pm
Dan thanks for the response, but I guess I didn’t make myself clear enough. What I’m wanting to do, is scrap the ACER installation, and reload My own personal Vista operating system utilizing the full capacity of the HDD rather than having recovery partitions.
So basically I’m doing the same thing that all of you are doing except I’m choosing to use Vista.
In regards to the overheat issue that I’m hearing people talk about, I heard that the BIOS update will resolve that problem. I believe that you need to install version 1.19
December 7th, 2007 at 11:35 pm
sorry I can’t reply to everybody just now, maybe tomorrow.
bob/dan - a virtual machine may be a -bad- solution to the Win98 problem, as you will still not have drivers for jack shit. you might want to look into a full blown pc emulator, i’m not really sure. then again, you can at least -try- a virtual machine, and see where you get.. I just don’t see how you’d get drivers for most of the stuff going. post back here with any interesting findings of course, please.
carl - where did you hear that the BIOS update takes care of the overheating issue? i’d love it if it did, but I’ve only heard the -opposite-. the BIOS update does nothing in that regard, I am told. I suppose I may try it myself to see, but Acer seems to have a bit of a history of weird ACPI implementations, such as that one. on the other stuff: I’ll be straight with you. You do not have the experience, motivation, or communications skills to play around with this stuff. most people would not translate “considering keeping Vista” as “considering re-installing Vista from scratch”. furthermore, asking if SATA drivers are compatible with a celeron is universally stupid, to steal a phrase from the character Cereal Killer (Hackers, 1995). in no way is installing Vista similar to what “all of [us] are doing”. installing Vista should be a cakewalk, for most people installing XP on this has turned into a pain (until they read this handy guide, of course). if you -do- unwisely choose to handle this yourself, be sure to net the drivers -and- empowering technology software from the acer support site, you’ll need the empowering technology framework and power management utility to keep the notebook happy after it returns from sleep. dan replied to you out of the kindness of his heart to spare you my wrath
for the stupid questions, then you go and stir up the wrath again.
for the people who are =supposed= to be here (the people installing WinXP on the damn things!)…
we’ve got working Acer Empowering Technologies Framework and Acer Power Management software, this solves the fan/sleep/heat issue just as well as it does in Vista. just a matter of getting everything ready to post. it’s not the solution I want, believe me. I hate running extra bloat just to make a friggin’ -sleep- function behave… I was hoping to find other resources. no such luck for now.
anyone who knows about it, let us know about the 1.19 BIOS update though… if that preempts running stupid software, i’d love it.
and I pity all the linux folks who can’t use it w/ sleep on the acer just yet… i’m sure they’ll get new Acer ACPI modules to handle it soon, where we’ll be stuck w/ Acer Empowering technology. anyway, this will get worked on tomorrow.
sorry for all the people who didn’t get answered, i’ll have to go back over and look at comments again tomorrow… on the positive side, i don’t think any of the people who I have yet to answer asked anything too annoying.
December 8th, 2007 at 12:58 am
Sorry to upset you, but the only question I had was about the SATA drivers. The Acer downloads website has them for XP, but not Vista. I also had to scour the web to find the modem driver.
If you can’t answer me, then that’s fine. But if you’re interested I can get you the information about the BIOS update.
December 8th, 2007 at 4:07 am
Alex,
I was using BIOS 1.19 and I was still was experiencing the fan problem that I first reported here. I talked to Carl, a 2nd level support specialist at Acer, and he confirmed that BIOS 1.19 did not fix this problem. He basically said that you needed to use their bundled ePower Management utility. By the way, I upgraded to 1.19 because it was proported to solve an issue with a jumpy touchpad I was having (which by the way it did improve).
I’m glad you found a solution to this fan problem even though you have to use Acer’s bloatware. Unfortunately, after having to make a XP boot disk, then getting all the drivers working, then installing my apps, then having the shutdown problem, then researching the problem on the web, then restoring Vista, then confirming the necessity of their bloatware, then calling Acer, then installing XP again, then trying fan utilities like speed fan and others, I decided times up. I got Walmart to return my 5315 (which did amaze me since I had it 30+ days and they have a 15 return policy on computers). Now I’m (kinda) happily using Vista on my new Sony Vaio VGN-NR160E/T.
On a positive note, Acer’s tech support was really responsive (aside from not being able to fix the fan issue - I blame Acer design team, not their tech support department for the problem). I explained my problem to their 1st level support person, they quickly forward me to a 2nd level tech who was able to confirm my suspicions. The whole call lasted 15 minutes.
December 8th, 2007 at 8:03 pm
First of all, I want to say thank you for posting the instructions on how to roll back to Windows XP on the Acer 5315 laptops. I did not like Vista too much, but needed XP for work purposes more than anything. I too have installed the 1.19 bios update, and it definitely did not address the overheating issue. I am thrilled to know that many others are having this issue, and it is not just me. I do not want to run the extra software of the Empowering Technology, but am willing if this fixes the problem. So thank you for the help that you have provided.
December 8th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
Barry - have you tried these? ftp://ftp.work.acer-euro.com/notebook/aspire_5610/driver/ those should be the WinXP drivers… it’s still possible that neither of those drivers are the correct HDA modem drivers, just let us know what you find out.
Jake - you are not experiencing the “fan problem” it is totally normal for the fan to shut off and cut back on. do not worry about it. if the fan doesn’t come on regardless of heat, then -that- is a problem. we are discussing a specific behavior, please re-read the earlier posts for details. on the other thing: some people seem to be doing just fine in IDE mode, but in the past that sort of thing has lead to data corruption. I see no reason to risk it when the CD method posted here is so easy. on the same note, plenty of people on the forums seem to be happily chugging away in IDE mode. they probably still come to us for drivers though, heh.
Richard - thanks for the confirmation on the 1.19 BIOS… I doubt i’ll be upgrading after you and ryan confirmed that it doesn’t help… I use a USB Keyboard and pointing device, the performance of the built in ones is largely irrelevant to me at this point (although I am glad to know that Acer tightened that right up, of course). I don’t blame you a bit on taking the thing back… I’m pretty disappointed in having to run extra bloat, like I said. makes the wal*mart deal seem as much -less- appealing as that GMA3100 made it sound -more- appealing. as far as the Acer support.. i’ve had good dealings with them, and the factory parts are -uber- cheap. Sony is the inverse on parts, but at the same time they don’t build stupid ACPI quirks into their hardware, and on the whole I really like their notebooks.
Ryan - thanks for the praise, and again thanks for the confirmation on the 1.19 BIOS update. I know the feeling on the whole “oh good, it’s not my fault, I have not created some -insane- scenario no one has heard of before” business.
GEEZER - hope everything goes smoothly, sounds like you are primed and ready though.
December 8th, 2007 at 10:49 pm
Check this link out. There’s a person on here that says the update seems to help. http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=191737
December 9th, 2007 at 1:50 am
I “rolled back” my 5315 to XP using the slipstream method…worked like a charm. I also experienced the overheating problem described here. I resolved it by downloading and installing a program called “Notebook Hardware Control” (http://www.pbus-167.com) and experimenting with different settings. My notebook CPU is now holding a steady 45-50c degrees. It’s been a couple of days since I did this and I have had zero problems with standby/logon-logoff/shutdown/hibernate in any sequence and the have really tried to put it through the paces. I would still be interested in learning of an XP implementation of the Acer Power Management bloatware if one is found. Will check back often. Thanks Alex….you made this process a snap!
December 9th, 2007 at 8:21 am
Dear, Alex.
Thanks for solutions provided for XP installing on Aspire 5315. After a few tries all drivers are installed and work fine. But one problem on my Acer Aspire 5315-052G16Mi (for any case I put all model name) is not till solved. I can’t get to work touchpad below keyboard, while USB mouse works fine. I’ve tried all possible drivers offered by U and others- for XP (few older versions) and even for Vista. It still does not work, I’m getting thinking that it’s corrupted.
Can U advice me something else.
Best regards,
Andrew, Kiev
December 9th, 2007 at 10:41 am
Found the modem driver (must have skipped over it on the install.) Down to finding the “Ethernet controller” driver. Otherwise everything up and running smoothly for now.
Still using Vista on another Aspire 5610 Laptop, I cannot believe what a pain Vista is! In explorer each time you change directories and if the directory contains alot of files, it can take a couple of minutes for the files to show up (It’s thinking like the hourglass icon in XP) I don;t know what it is checking for before generating the file list but it really sucks and the need for permissions to do virtually anything is absolutely rediculous.
December 9th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
Barry - you need to try the “Lan Driver Broadcom” drivers listed on that FTP link from my last post, those should be your Ethernet drivers.
Andrew - I will upload a Synaptec/Alps driver package, it has “Touchpad detect.exe” have you tried that already? Daniel can post a link later, after I upload it. It seems strange that it did not work “out of the box” after you installed XP. Maybe you need to check “Device Manager” and see what you find there?
Bill C - interesting findings, I may have to check that utility out. I meant to take a look at the recent notebook utility article on Overclockers.com, http://overclockers.com/articles1485/ I guess I’ll take a look at that soon.
In the mean time, I’ll get that acer power management stuff uploading, although I must leave immediately after I start this upload.. maybe when daniel stops by he’ll see the files and post the links here. you must install the empowering framework first, or power management won’t install.
December 9th, 2007 at 2:12 pm
Alex, thanks for assisting,
The matter is that I did not find Synaptec/Alps driver package at this site. I used floppy method and zip file with all drivers (46 M) listed bellow. Earlier I tried to install this driver using my CD with Vista, links with XP drivers of older 5000 models listed by U bellow. Can U put here a link where touchpad driver is?
Everything is allright with Device Manager - no conflicts. It shows HID mouse (with Microsoft Windows Publisher driver, 5.1.2600.0 version) and PS/2 mouse (already with Synaptics driver, 8.3.0.0 virsion) .
Your help will be highly appreciated, I’ll be waiting for upload link.
Thanks
P.s. Sorry for possible misstakes, I’ve got tired.
December 9th, 2007 at 11:45 pm
Looks like Dan’s added the Touchpad drivers to the downloads list, as well as the 2 Acer software installers… hopefully that should set everyone straight.
Andrew - hopefully the new Synaptics driver will work for you. please note that the touchpad may be “turned off” somehow. check for keyboard shortcuts to disable the touchpad, as well as check the Synaptics control panel after you install the touchpad drivers.
everybody else… let us know how the acer software works for you. from what I’ve seen, these are the newest XP versions. for those of you who “tried” the vista install that these notebooks came with (I didn’t… heh), how similar is this to the latest (2.5) version(s) for Vista? I kind of assume that 2.0 series for XP and 2.5 series for Vista are the same??
December 10th, 2007 at 8:17 am
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December 10th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
Thanks a lot. It’s a shame for me to recognize, but I did know that there is the button combination on keyboard that switchs on touch pad (it is displayed in blue on keyboard).
Thanks again for pointing and assistance very much)))
December 10th, 2007 at 10:04 pm
Can anyone tell me if I can put Windows XP Pro X64 bit edition on the acer notebook 5315, and if u can what drivers do I need?
Thanks a ton,
December 10th, 2007 at 11:02 pm
Andrew - no problem, glad you are all straight now.
Anonymous - the “Conroe-L” core that the 5315 uses (aka the newest Celeron M) features the EM64T instruction-set… so as far as I know: Yes, WinXP Pro 64bit should be able to work. Do you have a good reason to run WinXP 64bit? I’m not going to waste a lot of time getting you drivers if you are just installing it on a whim. Offhand, I’d say that the Realtek HD Audio drivers and maybe the realtek ethernet drivers will work, and probably all or most of the Intel drivers. Again, -why- would you want to put yourself through the hell that is WinXP 64bit Edition??
December 11th, 2007 at 2:45 am
I allowed XP installation on my 5315 simpply by setting in BIOS to IDE mode… Everything works fine, but the audiu, it always gives me an error while installing, I tried in safe mode also, but nothing. There is a yellow question mark in the device manager on the HD audio driver, but it doesn’t let me uninstall or update driver at all. Any idea what to do?
December 11th, 2007 at 4:01 am
Now that I checked it better, my laptop is actually a 5315-051G12Mi and it actually came with a Linux instead of the Vista
Could this be the answer to my audio problems? If so, what now? XP will stay even with no sound, I’m decided about, but I’d prefer of course to have the sound working.
December 11th, 2007 at 7:58 am
Mate, I have been trying to install the wireless, audio and modem (dial up) for ages and mate you advice was great and it worked heaps well, Thanks so much merry christmas mate. Great work p[utting this info together. Thanks again Ian
December 11th, 2007 at 7:47 pm
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December 12th, 2007 at 9:46 am
@maksim: http://files.soulpass.com/acer/f6_floppy_maker.zip
this is the zip file that contains the needed F6 driver.
ovo je link do zip fajla. kada ga raspakujes, dobijas exe koji pravi floppy sa drajverima. srecno!
@alex: thank you for this tutorial, i wish i found it before..
I guess I did it all the hard way, except for the ahci driver (installed it in ide-mode).
I have heard of the method of changing the iso file, but (back then) it seemed like a too much work. Maybe I’ll give it a try, but my question is: is there a way to install ahci drivers AFTER the ide install? I guess not, but wanted to check with an expert..
another issue: I installed ubuntu, and now using triple-boot, and I was having overheating issue, so I’ll try solutions found here in xp and post back.
thank you for the info about bios update, i was wandering if that would help…
and sorry for my bad english…
December 12th, 2007 at 10:38 am
Thank you for this great page!!!
With your help I have spared a lot of time with installation.
The most strange was the soundcard, it has been detected only at the end of the drivers installation.
One remark: step 8 and 9 should be changed, as the installer of the epower management asking to be installed after the empowering framework. But before installing empowering framework .net framework 1 should be installed (at least the installer is complaining this…)
December 12th, 2007 at 10:40 am
Maksim,
Po angliski vse napiseno na etoy stranitse naverh…
December 12th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
Wanted to say thank you for providing these drivers, and page. Thank you very much
December 12th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
Hi! A friend of mine is interested in downgrading to XP on a 5315 aspire, so I started googling and found this great guide! We haven’t tried anything yet, I’d better be extra sure cause it’s not my laptop.
About the switching the hard drive mode to IDE, I read hear that you can switch it back to AHCI by installing proper software.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=185975
Any news on that heating problem? I guess that’s the main reason why I haven’t performed the installation yet…!
December 12th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
Thank You very very much !!
I used the Web - CD method on my new Travelmate 6292 and it worked fine and frst time. Out with Vista In with XP
Your guide was so well written and easy to follow
Your a Legend !
December 12th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
Any idea how could I solve my sound problem? I still couldn’t figure out why I can’t install the the realtec HD driver…
December 12th, 2007 at 11:39 pm
Boti - sounds like you have a corrupt download. re-download the Realtek HD Audio drivers. also post details on the error you are receiving.
Ian Graham - thanks for the props, good to hear that you are running smoothly.
Maxim - is our machine translation -that- bad? I was hoping that it would be at least mostly understandable, but it sounds like you can’t really understand what we are saying in the article.
camypaj - thanks for posting to Maxim… if the machine translation of the article is not good enough, there’s not really a good way for me to explain things to him. As luck would have it, it seems that Vagelis has beaten me to the punch on addressing -your- question: you -can- switch to AHCI mode after installing in IDE mode. If -I- were doing it, I would install from scratch instead. The method where you modify the ISO (slipstream the drivers) is actually -super- easy, and fast. http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=185975 is exactly what I was going to link you to in reference to switching modes though. I’d say most of the advice and drivers from there are supplanted by our article, but they discuss switching from IDE Mode to AHCI mode, which is what you want to do. There is currently no fix that I know of for the 5315-2153 in Linux, but AFAIK our acer software should work fine in WinXP. The easy solution is never to put the notebook to “sleep” when you are in Ubuntu… just start it up and shut it down. that way the fan will never have a problem. your english is fairly good, nothing to apologize for I’d say.
anon - we’ll get the order there fixed straight away (just a typo). maybe we should mention something about the .net framework being required, I meant to mention that and then completely forgot. thanks for bringing it up, and thanks for the compliments!
Justin - you’re welcome. let us know if you run into any issues.
Vagelis - you can switch back to AHCI mode after installing, but that’s one of the things I dread the most. -if- I were to install in IDE Mode, I think I’d stay that way… I’m just not comfortable making a switch like that. that said, nobody seems to have had any issues following the proceedures you linked to. I read that thread a while back, and nobody has posted with explosions or anything. as far as the heat issue though.. I didn’t notice it until it was pointed out to me, and I haven’t had time to mess around with my own equipment in some time. I’m pretty sure that the software we posted fixes the issue for WinXP, and nobody has posted with complaints.. whatever that means.
Dragon - that’s great, glad to see that everything is working for you.. you’ve got all drivers installed?
December 13th, 2007 at 2:29 am
Thanks a lot, everything worked perfectly!
December 13th, 2007 at 3:52 am
THIS IS A WARNING TO EVERYBODY! When you run Windows Vista or Ubuntu/Linux or Windows Vista without the Acer ePower utility, your notebook will overheat and switch off by a safety device (this applies to the whole Gemstone range and other Acer notebooks which are supplied with Windows Vista). However, this will eventually cause damage. to your notebook. Myself and other members of the notebook review community have contacted Acer and had this confirmed by their technical support. Acer is not willing to supply a fix for this obvious design fault and until they do you MUST MAKE SURE to switch off any setting to sleep mode and hibernation mode in the Windows Power Menu when you run another OS on your Acer. The ePower utility is not available for Windows XP and Linux/Ubuntu, so if Acer does supply a fix it will be only for Windows Vista. Because I want to run Windows XP, I will return my Acer 5315 as not “Windows Vista compatible” and will purchase Fujitsu or Toshiba with similar specs for similar price (the only shortcoming are the missing S-Video socket and shorter battery life but all XP drivers are available from their web site). I hope this information will help to prevent damage to your Acer notebook.
December 13th, 2007 at 7:24 am
peter - you are an idiot.
December 13th, 2007 at 10:45 am
This drivers is worked for acer aspire 5715Z?
December 13th, 2007 at 10:56 am
Alex, Thanks again for this tutorial, worked like a charm, I did have a glitch “slipstreaming” the drivers, and had to load them individually. After The acer was up and running I created a bootable unattended CD with Winlite, slipstreamed SP2 and the drivers…….wiped it clean (fdisk & format ) again ( just cause
) Voila! A nice clean XP PRO OS!!!!!!! SHWEEEET!!!! Now for 2 unrelated questions… 1) Compaq V5207NR…XP Home OS…2 gigs RAM,— msg b4 boot, HD failure is imminent press F1 to start, I know HD tripped SMART from HEAT..Have flashed bios ….didnt cure…any suggestions? 2) S-Video worked fine for a while, now only outputs black and white to TV….any suggestions? Thanks again Alex, Not only for this info, but also for the time you spend helping us “wanna be” incompetent techs.
December 13th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Robert N - good stuff!
flox[BG] - hard to say. You will have to try and see. We do not have any Acer Aspire 5715Z notebooks to test with. You may email Daniel if you have an extra notebook to ship to us. If you do not have an extra one, feel free to try what we’ve got, and post back if you are still missing a few drivers.
Geezer - sounds good, nLite is amazing. what manufacturer on that compaq’s HDD? you may be able to reset things using the official utility. I’m not too sure, but knowing that would help. you could also just disable SMART… have you wiped the CMOS settings? no clue on the svideo, I honestly haven’t even bothered to test on mine. when you say black and white… do you mean grayscale? or just 1-bit black-on-white?? have you tried a separate s-video cable? IIRC, that could have something to do with it. any torque been put on the s-video socket on the laptop? good luck. helping people is fine, it’s the ones who cannot read that bother me (see below).
peter - to clarify: you need to read. we are just wrapping up a discussion on that issue… why don’t you TRY THE POSTED SOLUTION instead of writing warnings in all caps.
to EVERYONE - I certainly hope you realize that letting your notebook overheat over and over is a HORRIBLE idea. please do not do that. please just install the provided utilities for WinXP, -or- if you run Vista, install the Vista versions of the utilities (from acer). -or- if you are running Linux/Unix then -please- disable sleep and hibernation until the someone fixes the Acer ACPI package to deal with this issue.
if you just “live with” the issue and let the notebook overheat, you -will- cause problems.. overheating issues are thought to be more damaging to newer machines built with ROHS compliant solder (the newer ROHS compliant solder is more susceptible to cracking… when the notebook heats and cools down to/from such extremes, it puts stress on the solder joints and can make BGA components come loose underneath. blah blah blah.. bottom line: do not let it overheat. duh.
December 13th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
Alex, HD mfg.,Seagate 60gb, used their utility, passed all tests, flashed bios.etc…really a non issue..on S-video I meant greyscale,have tried 2 diff cables….torque on socket..most likely and probably.( knowing my lil brother ) Bios ,as I remember is really sparse for choosing/changing/tweaking/or enabling/disabling much except for the basics. But i will take another “look” at it this weekend. Thanks again for your input.
December 13th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
Have already zeroed out Hitachi hard drive with Hitachi DFT utility….have cd burner….winxp pro will not install…..dos6.22 will not install…..also, tried Win98 and WinMe setup disks…..have used both drive modes in the bios….to no avail…..Could use some advice!!!!!!!!……Acer Aspire 5315 Notebook…….ALSO, Why is Acers’ Notebook different??????
Thanks
December 14th, 2007 at 7:28 am
Hi Alex,
in device manager I have a yellow exclamation mark at “audio device on HD audio bus”, and it is written that “the drivers for this device are not installed”. It does not react when I click on “update” or “reinstall” the driver, and when trying to uninstall it gives me “Failed to uninstall the device. The device may be needed to boot up the computer”.
Everything else works fine, all the drivers mentioned in the article are installed, including the wireless. I don’t have any clue what else to try…
When trying to run the Realtec WDM driver setup seems that everything is fine at the beginning of the installation process, but at the very end, when the progress bar is almost done it gives an error message “Install Realtec HD audio driver failure”. I downloaded once again the driver, but it gives me the same error
December 14th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
Hi Alex,
You are doing a great job here! Question: I only have a XP SP1 cd at my disposal. I have actually set my hard drive to Ide and XP runs smoothly but I’d prefer to do a clean install using your method. Do I absolutely need an XP Sp2 disc to perform this install?
One more thing: this is the second aspire 5315 on which I install XP. The first didn’t give any problems, I found the drivers for the Atheros WLAN card easily. The second laptop though has a broadcom 4321AG 802.11 b/g WLAN card, and finding a working driver took very much time. I finally found it here: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewf…ct=499849&os=228&lang=fr
December 14th, 2007 at 5:36 pm
tumblehome - Good job dredging up the broadcom driver, i’m sure that will be usefull to other 5315 owners. as far as I know, you don’t have to have an SP2 disk to use this method (although I haven’t tried, I don’t actually have one.) As geezer mentioned above, if you -want- to, nLite can actually slipstream SP2 (using the SP2 redistributable download from microsoft) as well as the SATA drivers. that’s probably the best course of action for you, not that I think installing SP1 would hurt anything, but you’ll need SP2 right away anyway, might as well slipstream it.
Boti - You are certain that you have installed the Intel Chipset drivers?
jim - you need to RTFA. by which I mean: please read the -entire- article on this page. It will teach you what you need to know.
Geezer - well, 3 things:
1. have you looked through the “Display Properties” -> “Settings” -> “Intel(r) Graphics Media Accelerator” -> “Graphics Properties” section, it has many settings, and while I am not in front of a notebook with Intel GMA on it at the moment, I hope you may find a setting there.
2. One individual on the internet mentions connecting the S-Video cable -before- you boot the machine up, and while he was running Linux, it still may prove a valuable tip. plus it’s easy to try, heh.
3. in order to -really- reset the CMOS settings, if you got ambitious.. here’s what I’d recommend. some people do not follow all these steps, but extra caution probably won’t hurt you here, so: Remove the power adapter. remove the notebook’s main battery. Remove the RAM. look under every panel on the notebook, see if you can find the small clock battery. if not, you’ll have to disassemble the notebook. once you find the small clock battery, remove it as well. now hold down the power button for a solid 60 seconds. now you may put the clock battery back in, as well as the RAM and the main battery, and finally the power adapter. after this process, any saved cmos settings will hopefully have disappeared.
hope some of that helps, although the prospects aren’t so great at the moment. i’m sort of doubtful about ever getting rid of the SMART warning until you replace the hard drive, but the CMOS reset may help, who knows.
December 14th, 2007 at 10:34 pm
Great work Alex. When I add the drivers in the “Select multiple drivers to integrate” step of nLite, how many items should I be selecting? Thanks.
December 14th, 2007 at 10:58 pm
谢了
December 15th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
Doh. Disregard the last question. I figured it out. Thanks again, Alex.
December 15th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
Thanks for the quick reply Alex. Install worked fine with the XP SP1 disc.
Merci et à bientôt!
December 15th, 2007 at 1:43 pm
Alex, Thanks for the speedy response :)…..been there done that on all points….cept the extreme clear cmos by pullin battery and finding the clear cmos jumper (holding power button for 60 secs is new to me as a method for clearing it….will remember that tip…lol..sounds easier than crossing those jumper pins with a paper clip …roflmao ) will tolerate the imminent HDD failure warning…and replace it when needed..S-Video I give up ..Ill just get him a 19″ monitor for Christnas and tell him to use HDMI….hehehehehe. Thanks again
December 15th, 2007 at 3:38 pm
I honestly thank you very much for this page. Invaluable help. I am not an expert and would not have been able to get through this without your ready made recipe.
Best regards,
ervin sperla
December 15th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
ervin/tumblehome - glad everything’s working.
travis - at some point Dan will probalby moderate/approve my response which comes somewhere in between.. stupid spam-catcher system. good thing you figured it out on your own, heh.
曾喜 - You are welcome!
Geezer - yeah, the power button thing is actually usually done in conjunction with other actions… it’s purpose is to clear capacitors on the motherboard or power supply which may (and sometimes do) retain energy and supply power to volatile RAM (like the cmos or system RAM). so you can use that trick in a couple of ways.. systems which are “acting up” can sometimes be “cold booted” in a harder way than just “shut down and turn it back on” if you have them “shut down, unplug cord [+remove battery if it’s a notebook], hold power button for a while, plug back in, turn back on”… works surprisingly well on weird things like Modems for example. you can also use it while reseting the CMOS, -especially- on notebooks, which usually do not actually have a “clear cmos” jumper at all!
i need to shorten my replies.
December 15th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
Alex, actually I was a bit too fast to think everything was fine. Turns out I can’t get the sound working. I get the system chirps alright, but nothing else. No audio device is recognised by the system. I installed and ran Everest and even that doesn’t seem to find anything. Do you happen to have an idea how I can make it work or have you heard of similar problems from someone?
Any assistance is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
December 15th, 2007 at 4:58 pm
argh! i am desperate for xp to be put on here but your slipstream_drivers.zip isn’t recognised as a web address. please fit it!
December 15th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
Shorter replies ?? !! Then how would us old geezers get our FREE Education?, Thanks again for the tip AND the explanation of said tip:)
December 15th, 2007 at 7:27 pm
Clare, that file should work; however, be sure you are clicking the link directly from the tutorial page. For bandwidth preservation, if it is clicked from a 3rd party site it probably won’t work. Also, what browser are you using? You may want to try clearing your browser cache and giving it another shot…
December 15th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
TY So much for this page, it was truly a blessing. I also had the problem with the fan and downloaded the EPower software that was provided and it didn’t fix the issue. So I tried that Notebook Hardware Control that Bill C brought up and everything seems to be running cool and smooth now. Thx to both of you =)
December 15th, 2007 at 11:59 pm
Coach - thanks for mentioning that ePower Management did not help. could you post your model # as well? (such as Acer Aspire 5315-2153)
Geezer - no problem, as usual.. heh. maybe i could boil them down?
ervin - odd. need model #… is it a 5315-2153, or other model?
December 16th, 2007 at 12:23 am
Yes Alex it is an Acer Aspire 5315-2153. Sorry about that.
December 16th, 2007 at 5:03 am
Alex, the model number of this machine is 5315 - 050508Mi.
December 16th, 2007 at 6:56 am
right, sorry. it started working a few seconds after i posted that.
i’ve got everything working, apart from the wifi. when you put all the information for my router in maually, it will connect, and say everything is fine and signal strength is excellent, but won’t let you access any web pages. if you let it try to do it automatically, it will just get stuck on ‘aquiring network address’.
everythign is installed and working fine though.. so what is wrong? the connection works fine through a cable..!
cheers though. this laptop will be ace once it’s wokring properly. it is the 5315 acer aspire laptop too… so yeah =P
December 16th, 2007 at 6:59 am
i’m also in the uk if that’s any help. i’ve probably installed something wrong.. :S
December 16th, 2007 at 7:11 am
ok scrap that. new problem. i’ve just tried to reinstall the audio bus driver and that worked ok, and reinstalled the wireless agere modem, and now my laptop can’t even find a wireless connection! i can’t even find an option to set up a wireless connection.
=( help me please x
December 16th, 2007 at 7:20 am
it’s telling me the driver is not digitally signed in the hardware wizard, despite me taking the steps you posted for the modem installation at the top. i’ve tried both sets of drivers you suppy and i can’t get either of them working.
December 16th, 2007 at 10:21 am
Ey dude the tutorial is great, nice job really helped me out. Thx again.
December 16th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
Hi, Alex.
Your description is very usefull, thank you.
December 16th, 2007 at 9:08 pm
Thanks a lot Alex,
I suffered with Vista longe enough.
Your tutorial gave me the confidence to go ahead and dump the piece of junk. For me XP is much more stable.
December 16th, 2007 at 10:36 pm
clare - you need to calm down, and be verbose. you are posting fairly odd things for someone who is following the instructions.. it sounds like you may not be! at this point you have a mess. I suggest two things. #1… please post your FULL model number. there are many 5315 models, and since you are in the UK, i think it’s safe to assume that you do not have the 5315-2153, which is the focus of this article. #2.. please just wipe that WinXP install, start over, and follow the instructions. and FYI.. the drivers are -not- all signed… you must install them anyway.
Paul Corrigan, Sergio, Reislet - glad you’re up and running.
everything/everybody else - sorry, we’ll get to you soon.
December 16th, 2007 at 11:45 pm
IDK if it will help, but BIOS version 1.21 is available
December 16th, 2007 at 11:47 pm
IDK much about BIOS revisions, but it appears that in the readme file there is indication that version 1.20 corrected some “temp” related issue.
December 17th, 2007 at 2:37 am
does anyone have same problem as me,xp installs fine ,and runs just great,but acer empowering framework when installed has nothing on it at all,all the widgets are mssing save the power options one,also found it impossible to conecct to the internet using wifi
December 17th, 2007 at 8:43 am
is anyone of you from spain? has anyone from spain tried this method with versions sold here in el corte ingles, miro, milar, idea… versions are 050508Mi and 051G12Mi. thanx
December 17th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
Just bought an Acer 5315-2681, this site was awesome to help me port over to XP, what a world of difference. This unit should NOT have Vista on it, might as well buy a Commodore 64
I’ve managed to install XP Pro with no problems all drivers installed perfectly but have encountered one problem, the Atheros Wireless driver. Everything seem to install fine, it detected the device, I can connect to my AP and even access the AP’s settings but for some weird reason cannot connect to the internet. Doesn’t seem to want to receive just send. I’ve tried different versions of the Atheros driver and same problem. I definitely have the right model of the Wireless device confirmed via Acer Tech support.
I spent a good hour with Acer tech support and they can’t seem to figure it out also. I’m out of options and ideas, has anyone encountered this issue? I know the wireless is working, because I can access the AP setup via wireless. I’ve turned off all firewall/AV software.
Thx in Adv.
Damen
December 17th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
Manuel,
I’m writing from Hungary. I have bought model 050508Mi here. Following this post, I successfully installed XP, with the exception that I can’t make the sound work. I only get the system chirps, but no audio device is recognized.
I talked to Acer Tech Support about it. They basically said they do not support XP on this model, only Linux and Vista (HOW LAME IS THAT?). Responsibility thus comfortably ducked, they proceeded to recommend some drivers - mostly to get rid of me, it appeared. I will try those anyway and report back.
December 17th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
Thanks for this great page.
D’you think it would be possible to install a 2nd HDD on this laptop ?
Thus, the 1st HDD would remain untouched, and the 2nd one would support the multi-boot (such as Xosl), and Windows XP as well as an Ubuntu Linux.
December 18th, 2007 at 6:04 am
Hello people. I’m 5315 owner. Please, help me with TouchPad drivers. I did all operations which Alex wrote, but still can’t use touchpad. Sometimes, when xp starts, touchpad works in a second and after that off. All drivers works, excluding touchpad. Help me please. Thank u. :]
December 18th, 2007 at 10:19 am
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December 18th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
Nice writeup!
I went to the Acer US site to check for newer drivers before i did the CD method and found a file in the DL section named - DiskFormatDT_V1-1D.iso -it looks like they caught on. Here is what the instructions say:
Post Acer Disk Formatter CD ISO Image
The HDD may need to be formatted prior to downgrading a computer from Vista Business to Windows XP. Acer Windows XP downgrade kits (that ship in selected systems) include the Acer Disk Formatter CD. In the event this CD is missing, a copy of the CD can be created with the attached ISO image.
Note: a computer with CD “burner” software is needed to convert the ISO image into a physical CD.
p.s. there is also a preload security patch for XP
December 18th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
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December 18th, 2007 at 5:20 pm
Just bought a acer 5315-2681 and wonder if I should try to change to xp pro…..I have xp and sp2 disks….and have just made the two dvd system boot disks just in case I have problems….any suggestions…go ahead to live with a slow computer….price was $389 Canadian so had a hard time passing up this bargain….Ken in Canada
December 18th, 2007 at 9:40 pm
canada, Go for it !!! :),,,stick 2 gigs of ram in that puppy and U will be a very pleased Canadian indeed
December 19th, 2007 at 12:54 am
boy what a difference…..did the boot cd method…worked like a charm with the xp pro install disk….worked fine even before I added the following in this order…..realtek, intel chip, intel graf..atheros…wireless kicked in like a charm after that…then the broadcom…….have not done the launch, touchpad , acer emp,,acer epower…..all works screaming fast without the rest….the fan comes off and on….have turned off hibernation or sleep……should i do anthing else….what does the launch one do…..or the touchpad…the touchpad seems to work fine with the xp default stuff….this is a great machine now….Canada
December 19th, 2007 at 7:19 am
Hi Ervin and Manuel.
I have the same Europe-spec 5315-050508Mi. I found a working XP driver for the Realtek soundcard on the official ACER website (http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/notebook/as_5315.html)
December 19th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
I’ve tried the Notebook Hardware Control and the Acer power managment software, and neither of them have been able to resolve the fan issue after sleeping. I tested the Acer one by checking the temp through NHC (which was running at the time). I ran a bunch of programs at once and the temp went up to 80C with no fan. I haven’t tested the Acer program WITHOUT the NHC running yet.
In the meantime, what is the best way to set this notebook up? Should I just make sure that it never goes in sleep? If I do that, I’ll have to keep it plugged in most of the time because the battery will drain down if it’s not in sleep… which kind of sucks.
For those who said that they got the fan working properly with the Acer software (or a different program): Would you mind double checking this (when you come back from sleep mode) because I haven’t had any luck with it. I just opened IE like five times, played a bunch of videos at once and ran a virus scan… the temp got hot in no time.
December 19th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
Hi Alex,
I see that you have been helpin out lota ppl, and when compared to all the other sites that provide tutorials for the same issue, ur tut is very clear and easily understandable….
and I shud not forget to appreciate ur kindness.
Alex, I hav an Acer Aspire 5710G lappy, wen i tried installin xp on it, i got an error that it cant find HDD
In my device manager, under “IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers”, I hav
ATA Channel 0
Intel(R) 82801G (ICH7 Family) Ultra ATA Storage Controllers -27DF
Intel(R) 82801GBM SATA AHCI Controller
and under “Storage controllers”, I hav
ENI PCI Memory Stick Card Reader Controller
ENI PCI Security Digital /MMC Card Reader Controller
ENI PCI SmartMedia/ xD Card Reader Controller
Microsoft iSCSI Initiator
Besides, I cant find drivers for xp, for my lappy’s model, on acer site
plz take a look at this http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/notebook/as_5710.html
However, I hav downloaded all the drivers for xp in this list…
http://www.acerpanam.com/synapse/form…FTOKEN=52460936
Im so confused & not sure wat i shud do next…I did understand ur tut, but i dont hav the SATA drivers…I tried searchin for hours n hours on the internet, but all in vain…
I know that the link to the slipstream drivers u hav put here, in this tut, is for a different model, but anyway i just thought i wil try it, and made a cd. follwin the steps, i tried installin, my lappy says that it cant access the cd !
and now wen i start lappy, windows wont load…. “NTLDR is missing”
Plz help, Alex!
December 19th, 2007 at 2:20 pm
Hello ,
I just instal Windows XP with SP3 on my Acer 5315 . I change in BIOS to IDE option and it work`s very good . I still have a little problem : why Acer Arcade Deluxe don`t work for Windows XP ? Enything can be done to make it work ? Did somebody have a link wherefrom i can download one Acer Arcade Deluxe varsion which work with Win XP ? Thank`s for help .
December 19th, 2007 at 4:45 pm
Hey Travis….I went in to the power management..xp…and turned off sleep….I keep mine plugged in most of the time and if I use the battery I do not let it go off…but then I use it for only about and hour or so on battery and then plug it back in…..have not installed any of the Acer stuff so far and not even the modem driver as will not use the modem anyways….what is the diff between sp2 and sp3???? never was offered the upgrade…perhaps because I have a boot leg xp pro image…
December 19th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
Hallo,
I bought today my Acer Aspire 5315 with Linux on it.
I succeeded to install XP, using and following all the instructions given by Alex. Everything went fine with one exception - I can not install the Realtek HD Audio Driver, having the same problem as Boti. Can someone help, a computer without audio…
December 19th, 2007 at 5:41 pm
Anyone, any suggestions abt wat i need to do now?
December 19th, 2007 at 6:21 pm
In a previous post on Dec 19, tumblehogme wrote that the driver he downloaded from
http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/notebook/as_5315.html
worked.
I tried it but it wouldn’t work for me. I then went into Device Manager and found a PCI device under Sounds and Audio Devices that was not installed properly. I asked to reinstall the driver and when prompted, pointed to where I had unzipped the required sys file and it worked.
December 19th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
Btw, I was refering to Emil’s message about Realtek HD Audio Driver for the Aspire 5315 050508Mi.
December 19th, 2007 at 6:26 pm
Oops - I was not under Sounds and Audio Devices, but System Devices.
December 19th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
:p
December 19th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
my audio worked just fine using the one that Alex posted with all the driver download…..thank Alex for all the ground work on this…Canada
December 19th, 2007 at 11:23 pm
One thing that is not working for me is the WLAN; it appears that the chipset is based on the 4311 chip but the driver which someone used and said worked for him does not work for me - very bizarre.
December 20th, 2007 at 12:14 am
I just managed to fix my WLAN problem by going to Device Manager and right clicking on the uninstalled network adaptor and asking to reinstall the driver manually, then selecting network card, broadcom and 802.11b/g.
December 20th, 2007 at 4:12 am
Thank you for advice how instal this laptop on WIN XP. Does it work without complications.
December 20th, 2007 at 5:17 am
Thanks, Robert, it was a good clue, I updated successfully the PCI Driver in System Devices, using Audio_Realtek_v6.0.1.5443_Vista_XP, rebooted the PC but stil the yellow mark for Audio Device on HD Audio Bus remains and I have no audio. Any other solutions?
December 20th, 2007 at 5:55 am
btw model number of my Acer is Aspire 5315 062G18Mi, if I can read exactly the little numbers
December 20th, 2007 at 11:19 am
Deleting everything, creating and formatting the new partitions, following strictly the Internet and CD Burner Method finally I succeeded and have a very good Aspire 5315, working under Windows XP Pro.
Alex, many thanks to you, you’ve made an enourmous job with your investigations and recommendations.
December 20th, 2007 at 11:44 am
I also want to thank you for advices you gave us in this page. I found it really, really useful
So thank you again for saving my time 
. And pardon my English 
December 20th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
Hi everyone,
tumblehogme’s comment made me retry the XP install, although I almost reconciled with the idea of having to run Vista on the machine as XP had no audio.
i was unsuccessful again, but then i followed Robert’s tip to manually reinstall the improperly working PCI device driver - and that was the solution for me.
I now have the Realtek Audio correctly working and so I can use the machine with XP. Anyone having problems with the audio, it might help you people too.
And thanks to Alex once more for this invaluable post!
December 20th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
Alex, thank you so much. You solved all my problems!! Great job!!!
December 20th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
Ervin, please tell us step by step how did you solve problem with audio
for the Aspire 5315 050508Mi.
December 20th, 2007 at 6:33 pm
I’m sorry, ANYBODY know, how can change video card memory ? Now it’s only 10mb, i want to increase that, for games. Thank you :] Waiting for answer.
December 21st, 2007 at 4:09 am
Diego,
Here we go:
1. I read this post and created the alternative XP install CD.
2. Using that CD, I installed Windows XP on the machine.
3. I started installing the drivers. The first was the Realtek audio driver (Vista/XP) - I used the version that tumblehogme found on the European Acer site (see his comment). The second was the Intel chipset driver. After that, I stopped for a moment.
4. I went to control panel > system > hardware > device manager. A lot of devices still had question mark signs but that is OK. I only looked for the “PCI device”. I right-clicked it, chose properties and then chose to reinstall the driver.
5. I selected the manual options and told the wizard to look for the best driver in the Intel chipset > “All” folder (this folder was created when I unzipped the Intel chipset driver before installation). The wizard found the right driver itself and installed it nicely.
6. I had sound!
Then I continued installing the rest of the drivers according to the post, with no problems any more. So it appears that the problem is not with the Realtek driver after all but somehow the Intel chipset driver does not install itself correctly, so you have to complete it manually. And then it works.
I hope it helps. Merry Christmas!
December 21st, 2007 at 3:39 pm
What download/patch/driver are you using to get the DVD working to watch a movie….Windows Media does not have the rights to play a movie….am using the XP pro version of Explorer 6…..went to the windows site but they want money to download the drivers for DVD watching…looked at downloads.com they have some free ones but not sure which one is good….Canada
December 21st, 2007 at 4:11 pm
just to let you know that the reinstallation of windows XP has been fine, everything is working very good, AGAIN THANKS !!!! my acer 5315 now work very fast !!!
thanks
Dominic
December 21st, 2007 at 4:57 pm
Alex thank you so much, this method worked perfeclty, laptop is screamingly fast, thanks again,
Paddy (Ireland)
December 21st, 2007 at 7:48 pm
Some great tips and an invaluable resource for the drivers required for this laptop. You’ve saved me a great deal of time setting this up with XP, thank you very much,
Mark
December 22nd, 2007 at 12:53 am
it’s a little late at night for me to post usable stuff, but here goes…
Ervin, Robert, tumblehome - sorry for not being clear on the Intel driver issue, I included about 1 sentence concerning that in the article, but that’s it. it should be in a more obvious spot… I’m still not sure if it should say “sometimes” or “every time”… anyway, if I recall correctly, you can just tell it to “Update Driver” and it will -find- the driver, you don’t have to tell it exactly where to look.
Tina - not much time to look over your stuff, but NTLDR is missing means the windows install is blown up (duh). you may have a bad burn. here’s what I’d do: get out that original WinXP Pro cd, make sure it’s good and clean… then follow the steps to make a boot cd in nLite again. boot off that, delete all the partitions and reformat as usual, continue to follow the guide from there. let us know what’s up. and please just type the words out. once you start typing words correctly, your typing skills will improve, and you’ll be faster.
canada - for the record, I might not bother upgrading to 2GB.. if i was keeping vista, maybe. but for WinXP, 1GB seems to be plenty for almost anybody… photoshop users may want much more, but then again.. they’ll want a much better notebook too! for my normal web browsing and such tasks, 512MB does not -quite- cut it anymore, but the 1024MB this thing comes with seems to do fine.
everybody who just said “thanks” - glad you are up and running, would you care to help me out? see below! and sorry I’m just too tired to address you all by name at the moment.
OK, at this point is the Acer ePower Management software we put up working for -anyone-? i seem to have seen a couple of people mention that it was not working, and if it’s not working for anyone, we’ll have to see about something else. when I have a few minutes free, I’ll test it myself again. remember it -does- require the Microsoft .Net Framework… and Acer ePowerManagement -does- have to -RUN- to work. you can’t strip it out of the startup items and expect it to work (unfortunately).
if it does work.. which I think it does… I should look into stripping the user interface off of it, and keeping the “Acer Empowering Framework” crap from coming up on the screen when you wake it up. that is -annoying-.
ok i’m about to pass out. everybody just let us know the situation and that would be great.
December 22nd, 2007 at 4:13 am
Alex, really no need for apologies from your side - if it wasn’t for you, I would now be watching Vista crawl around and pass out on the 512 megs and maybe sometimes thinking of the XP licence I had bought in vain.
So, like most everyone else here said, thanks again.
December 22nd, 2007 at 8:41 am
Thank you very much. This forum is very helpfull.
December 22nd, 2007 at 10:43 am
Ervin, I’ve followed your message and I have sound too!
Thank you and Marry Christmas!
December 22nd, 2007 at 11:08 am
Diego, that’s good news!
Although I probably won’t marry this Christmas ;), I am happy that you have now become multimedia, too. Good luck with your machine!
December 22nd, 2007 at 11:28 am
Hi Alex, just to clarify, The epower was “working” fine… except for the sleep-bug (which I think you were talking about). For now, I’ve stripped the computer of all of the epower/cpu cooling software since it didn’t do anything. I just forced it to never go in sleep and I just shut it down when I’m not planning on not plugging it back in for a while.
One nice feature I noticed about the epower is that you can set custom lcd brightness and cpu speed for plugged/battery. You could also do this in Vista, but not XP. So, that was a nice benefit of epower. If epower actually fixed the sleep-bug, it might be worth keeping this bloatware because of those custom power features.
Keep up the good work, Alex.
-Travis
December 22nd, 2007 at 2:40 pm
Hey Alex,
I am having an issue with cd/dvd drive. When I try and play a dvd now it is slowed down and choppy, basically unwatchable. Also, if I am ripping a cd or even just using the drive at all for that matter, I cannot listen to music or do anything involving sound or video as it is slowed down. It wasnt like that before. Do you know how I might fix that issue? Thanks again for you help.
December 22nd, 2007 at 2:52 pm
Oh, and I have the 5315-2153
Thx again
December 22nd, 2007 at 4:12 pm
just set IDLE Mode in BIOS for that sata… and install that xp sp2 with no worries about nLite or floppies
December 22nd, 2007 at 5:51 pm
Anybody can tell me, how do i can change my video card memory ? I can’t do this in bios. Thank you. Please, help, me :]
December 22nd, 2007 at 6:01 pm
_PartizaN_, I talked with Alex about that… The video card memory is soldered on the PCB — you can’t just upgrade it. You’re looking at spending a lot of money if you want to upgrade your graphics adapter, you’re probably better off getting a new laptop more suited for gaming. Furthermore, that issue is way beyond the scope of this tutorial.
December 23rd, 2007 at 1:06 am
I see mentioned that there is a bios update 1.2 and 1.21 that might fix the fan issue. I am unable to find a link to the bios flas on acer’s US website. Is it available for the 5315-2153?
December 23rd, 2007 at 8:26 am
there the link to download the bios update, PLEASE TELL US if the update work …
ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/notebook/aspire_5315/vista/Bios/
Dominic
December 23rd, 2007 at 8:46 am
also this link for bios and driver update
Dominic
http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/notebook/as_5315.html
December 23rd, 2007 at 10:13 am
i did the bios update from 1.19 to 1.21 , everything has been fine !
Dom
December 23rd, 2007 at 2:06 pm
Dominic - when you say “everything has been fine”, do you mean your upgrade to bios 1.21 has solved the “sleep” problem ? If it has, do you use XP with or without epower? Please clarify. Thanks.
December 23rd, 2007 at 3:42 pm
Alex, I would also like to say thank you, your detailed explanation has saved me a few days or more of my life. I also had audio issues, but thanks to Robert, solved that too.
This was the most usefull forum I’ve ever seen
Happy New Year, abd keep up the good and unselfish work
Julija
December 23rd, 2007 at 7:59 pm
Hi,
I cannot get the audio properly working on my 5315-2153. I installed the realtek audio HD drivers, and I can hear the computer beeps, and songs. However, when I try to play a DVD, no sound at all. Am I missing a setting somewhere? I looked through the realtek settings and there isn’t much there..
Thanks for a wonderful site, it has saved me hours of time!
R
December 24th, 2007 at 12:05 am
rusty…I downloaded the Artisan dvd/dvix player…a free one…then the dvd sound worked….i think the dvd needs this plug in to work the sound…
December 24th, 2007 at 7:12 am
where can i find the drivers for tha acer 5315.i want only tha audio high definition an the modem,.
December 24th, 2007 at 9:20 am
HI ALEX AND HELP ME.I WANT TO INSTALL XP DRIVERS IN AN ACER ASPIRE 5920G.WHERE I CAN FOUND THEM?
December 24th, 2007 at 9:27 am
@sakis: Have you reaaaaally read the whole blog from the top?…
December 24th, 2007 at 11:27 am
Thanks, Vagelis, I think that’s all that needed to be said about that
To those unable to play DVDs, maybe give VLC Media Player a try? As far as I know it uses it’s own decoding mechanism, so maybe it’s worth a try… Rusty, strange that it’s just the DVD audio not working for you. If VLC works then maybe it was a setting with the other software. Be sure to test multiple DVDs, too…
December 24th, 2007 at 11:28 am
Hi Alex- still enjoying being able to use this laptop, but the wife is pestering a touchpad driver like the Vista one.
The synaptics driver is loaded but sees the touchpad as a ‘ps/2 mouse’, therefore, none of the touchpad functions (esp right side scrolling of web pages) work.
I’ve ‘uninstalled’ the device to force a discovery, but it still comes up as a ps/2 mouse.
Any ideas?
December 24th, 2007 at 11:50 am
Thank you for putting this together. After many issues with Windows Vista and local only access on this laptop, we are now running Windows XP on it with the advice given here and it works great so far (12 hours now with solid wifi connection)
Great technical write up, everything was covered except for the need to install .net 1.1 before the Acer empowering framwork.
Thanks again.
Brett
December 24th, 2007 at 12:04 pm
Thank you all very much for this article and the informative replies. I greatly benefited from them. Owners of this notebook, Acer Aspire 5315, should read this highly informative article and replies. They saved me from burning my notebook which had suffered from the sudden shutdown because of the fan issue. Thanks to this site which made aware of the cause of the problem and I corrected the problem by installing the epower management utitility found on the Acer website. Thank you all again. I am grateful to you.
December 24th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
If you want to solve your problems with instalation XP on apcer 5715z you need to do this steps:
1.You need to install windows XP media centar with activation code(original Cd). It is XP MC because there is a lots of drivers in xp media centar edition
2.After activation of windows XP MC you will need to fix your Land driver by going in Device manager and update the lan driver from your original CD with the drivers
3.After fixing the Lan driver you need to fix your Wan driver. You can not install the original Wan driver from the Cd, you will need this driver:Broadcom_43xx_drv480287.exe for Wan network
4.Next you need to find this drivers win2k_xp14311.exe their are for Intel
chip set, after you find the drivers download them and install them.
5.Install your audio drivers from your original Cd. Enter in audio folder and click on the setup.exe and wait until it is finish(install).
6.Next you will install your modem driver from the original Cd.
This is the way a solve the problem with the drivers for acer 5715z.
If you have some problems be free to ask.
December 24th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
Sorry Canada, didn’t see your comment about the DVD software until after I posted mine about VLC. I’ll have to give Artisan a try too! Happy holidays, folks! Good to see that things are going well for most, and hopefully the outstanding issues will be resolved soon.
December 25th, 2007 at 11:55 am
Hi Alex and everyone,
Merry Christmas!
I followed the CD method, and everything works! But I’m having 2 problems: 1. overheating, when the system comes back from standby, even though with ePower running; 2. wireless dropping off, happens 4 or 5 minutes after it’s on, have to connect manually, then drops off again!
Does anyone have the similar troubles? Any solutions?
Thanks!
hgy
December 26th, 2007 at 7:43 am
@hgy
As far as i know there is no solution for overheating, other than completely disabling standby in the power options.
December 26th, 2007 at 9:38 am
Hi,
I would like to thank the creator of this site because, thanks to him, I succeeded in removing windows (hasta la) VISTA from my laptop.
I live in PARIS so, if you pass by, I will pay you a drink
Thanks again,
Laurent
December 26th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
Hi Alex and everyone
Does one of you can confirm that everybody has the overheating stanby fan problem ?
or this occur only on some people …
thanks
Dominic
December 26th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
Thanks very much! I was able to use this guide to put together the laptop that I had nuked (DBAN). Only sticking point for me is a message in Device Manager>?Other Devices>?!Modem Device on high definition bus
I have no idea what that means but I suspect it may have to do with UAA drivers so I’ve downloaded this file:
http://downloadmirror.intel.com/df-support/11597/eng/UAA.zip
I’ll let you know if it works. Cheers and have holidays!!
December 26th, 2007 at 5:24 pm
Nope, not the UAA.
It was the darned data/fax modem from Conexant!
http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/notebook/as_5315.html
Foxconn v7.66.0.50
hope that helps someone!
Cheers and have a safe and happy one
December 26th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
To Travis and Cannonball: As far as the solution for the “sleep-bug” and overheating….for me the solution was the NHC program (Notebook Hardware Control). My fan kicks on and off as needed and the notebook cpu temp stays at 40-50c degrees after bootup, when returning from standby, or when returning from hibernation. I use standby almost exclusively since I am plugged in nearly all the time. If I decide to go mobile, I just hibernate before unplugged. I have no overheating issues whatsoever even under heavy loading such as running multiple programs while defragging, etc. I have the mode 5315-2153. Before installing NHC, I did have the overheat issue. I first tried the Acer ePower/eFramework programs for the Aspire 5050 and that worked ok also. I decided to use NHC simply because it uses fewer resources and provides a temp display that can be monitored.
December 27th, 2007 at 12:37 am
SO MANY THANKS for this I never would have been able to do it without this page. CD method worked perfect.
I have XP on the Acer and its flying! Vista was a DOOOGG
ALEX
YOU
ROCK
thanks !
December 27th, 2007 at 2:34 am
I Just installed Windows xp Pro, and was wondering how I canm watch a dvd on my aspire 5315. It says to change the resolution or the color settings, I have tried that but still does not work! Any help would be great! Thanks
December 27th, 2007 at 2:45 am
Well, I wanted to say thanks to Alex and the information that he has provided to me through this website. However, I have officially returned my Acer 5315-2153 back to Walmart. Just to recap, I removed and loaded XP, per the great instructions provided on this website. I had overheating problems before and after the install. I then installed the empowering technology software, however was still having overheating issues. So, I gave up, and returned it. Walmart did tell me that they had several people return theirs. I also had a friend that returned his because of over heating. Again, thanks everyone!
December 27th, 2007 at 3:47 am
Thanks Alex for this great guide, all works fine for the Spanish version of the 5315.
I’m still having the fan problems after installing ePower though.. I’m downloading the recommended NHC program, but have no idea how to configure it properly.
Could someone who has gone through the process please tell me what settings worked for them?
Many thanks!
December 27th, 2007 at 5:50 am
HEY MAN! BIG RESPECT! AL this holly shit WORKS NICE! Thanks a lot man!. Good luck to you! thanks for support!
December 27th, 2007 at 10:36 am
Hi Mate,
Thanks heaps for the article. Life is so easy with XP.
your help with this is Much Appreciated.
December 27th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
Yep,
Ive tried the epower and nhc and still have the overheat issue on my 5315-2153. I can deal with that though I guess, everything else seems to work fine.
December 27th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
Thanks, Alex.
Just installed XP on my 5315-2681 with instructions from here.
Also installed NHC and so far no problems with overheating (tried
sleep, hibernate and fan works).
But I am still not sure about this laptop. I do not like lcd (not vivid
at all), keys have these awful french chars on it (no problem with
french, just how keyboard looks like). I’ve also put 512MB on top
and then you can see why this laptop is so cheap. Never been through
such pain to add memory!
On good side, XP is working fine, fast, wifi too, did not check modem,
but seems to be cnfigured fine.
Good job Alex and thanks to all other who contributed.
December 27th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
Memory upgrade….anyone done…..what type….ddr2…..but there are different types of ddr2……it should match the 1 mg that is in the machine to prevent problems…..5300 or 6300 or?????
December 27th, 2007 at 6:01 pm
hello all!!
i recently followed all procedures and added an older version of e-power mgmt for xp and everything is working great no overheating and at this point the modem i’m not sure if it works or not but who really uses them anymore? ethernet and wireless work perfect. Thanks big A everything is great.
December 27th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
acer epower management does not work for me with xp pro sp2. i am installing notebook hardware control right now, if that doesn’t fix it i am going to upgrade the bios. after that i just don’t know what i’ll do..
December 27th, 2007 at 9:21 pm
Hi,
Normally, if you have epower acer tools installed , FAN should run without issue…
how can i be sure that my fan don”t work or work as expected ?
DRIVER LIST :
http://www.acerpanam.com/syna…FTOKEN=59911405
Dominic
December 27th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
Hello. Just installed XP on 3 of these machines. Everything is running fine, except the PCI device, that Alex says just let windows update the driver on, wont take any of the drivers listed. The only thing I can attribute this PCI device to is something related to sound. I have system sound but no media sound. I have tried every sound driver I could think of. I have xp service pack 3 v3264. Also the sound drivers are installed, or so I think,.. this is a list of installed audio devices:
Audio codecs
Legacy audio drivers
Legacy video capture devices
media control devices
video codecs.
When I go to “sound and audio devices” under control panel it says “no audio device” and everything is “greyed’ out. Please let me know whats going on. Thanks
December 27th, 2007 at 10:28 pm
at this point, I -think- all the recent questions are answered in earlier comments. please read the comment thread carefully, it is very informative. just keep an eye out, there may be a stupid suggestion or two.. but those should be easy to pick out.
-Personally-, I use “Media Player Classic” to watch videos and DVDs, and it works perfectly. VLC is also very good.. IIRC both are open-source, free, projects.
Daniel… you have 5315-2153? if so, it -is- part of the audio stuff.. I’m not sure what you’ve done wrong.. I know 2 or 3 posters in the comment thread had trouble with that, but at least 2 of them worked it out. Try unzipping the realtek installer “exe” file (download, unzip, then unzip again.. that’s -2- unzips), and point windows to -there- to find the driver. if you can’t figure it out, maybe start from scratch? like I said, you should tell it to “Update Driver” and use “Install software automatically (Recommended)”… that’s what’s worked for me. unzipping the realtek installer and pointing at that is a fallback.
as for everybody who’s got overheating issues after trying NHC and ePM… you have broken laptops, return them. if you want to keep them, fine… but at least turn off sleep. -or- ship it back to acer, not like -I- care. but don’t let it overheat and then come whining to someone when it’s toast. bad luck I guess.
kudos for all the thanks… at some point we should polish this guide and include some of the stuff from the comment thread.. but really, the guide -mostly- has everything to 100% already.
December 27th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
Yeah I have an aspire 5315-2153. I unzipped everything I could unzip,… when i did unzip it the only driver I could point it to was a driver in a folder named ‘wdm” is this where the driver is located? Could it be my copy and version of XP? I seem to be the only one who is experiencing this problem. I have tried KXdrivers realtec drivers and pretty much any other audio driver I can download. Perhaps I should try my media center edition of xp?
December 27th, 2007 at 11:10 pm
daniel - why don’t you act normal, and re-install -without- SP3… I think that’s your main difference… feel free to try MCE, but I don’t think it will help… again, just guesses. I don’t have a copy of MCE to put on any 5315-2153’s…
December 28th, 2007 at 2:48 am
Daniel I had the same problem with pci device. installing the ager modem driver as explained below would solve the problem. it solved my problem. now there is no problematic device seen in device manager.
Modem Driver Installation
Extract the Agere modem drivers zip archive somewhere on the Acer notebook.
The links in this list go to step-by-step screenshots! Full album here.
Click on your “START” menu
Right click on “My Computer”
Click on “Properties”
Click on the “Hardware” tab at the top
Click on “Device Manager”
Right click on “Modem Device on High Definition Audio Bus”
Click on “Update Driver…”
Click on “No, not this time.” Click Next.
Click on “Install from a list or specific location (Advanced).” Click Next
Click on “Don’t Search. I will choose the driver to install.” Click Next.
In the list on the “Hardware Type” page, highlight “Modems”. You may have to scroll down. Click Next.
Click on “Have Disk…”
Click on “Browse” and navigate to where you extracted the Agere Modem drivers. Highlight the “agrmdv32″ file and click Open. Click OK.
Highlight Agere Systems HDA Modem. Click Next.
Click Yes on the “Update Driver Warning” dialog.
December 28th, 2007 at 9:08 am
I tried it on an acer aspire 5315. Was one of the easiest installations ever. Thank you very much to everybody who contributed to this installation procedure.
Anyone can tell me how to make this machine triple boot with Vista, XP Pro and Ubuntu? Just curious…
December 28th, 2007 at 10:32 am
Canada / Ken, This is what you are lookin for 1GB 200-Pin DDR2 SO-DIMM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) Notebook Memory. Newegg
. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1682014502.
December 28th, 2007 at 10:49 am
Erik,Just do a google search for boot manager…there are several apps out there that will support all 3 OS’s, some free , some not
December 28th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
serdar - unless I missed a beat, that would be an “Unknown Device on the HD Audio Bus” or something similar.. not an “Unknown PCI Device”. I’m fairly sure you guys are talking about separate things.. am I right? (don’t want to put my foot in my mouth here)
GEEZER - makes it easy when there are guys with enough wits to answer questions before I get here… thanks!
December 28th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
i posted last night saying e power management didn’t work. i took it completely out of commission and installed notebook hardware control. i was heartbroken the first time i put it in sleep and the fan never came on, but i restarted and no matter what i do the fan seems to be working fine. thank god..
so, for me, notebook hardware control worked fine. also, its worth mentioning that touchpad driver wouldn’t install, but i have no issues with my touchpad (works way better than it did on vista, too!)
December 28th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
Thanks Alex, However , I DO NOT want to step on any ones toes, and also DO NOT want to put my foot in my mouth either. Besides, I do enjoy helping “IF” I can. AND I am fortunate enough to have a lot more “disposable” time than most. LOL.
TO EVERYONE, Have a SAFE and Happy New Years !!
December 28th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
HI ALL,
the “notebook hardware control” work fine to me with the 2 following condition :
1- You have to remove every ACER empowering softeare (Epower and the Framework ) reboot and install notebook hardware control”
2- be sure that notebook hardware control” is running, shutdown and reboot
NOW the FAN should always run even if you go in standby or hibernate mode….
Dominic
December 28th, 2007 at 7:41 pm
Well I just put MCE onto 1 of the laptops and I have glorious sound,.. everything works fine,.. must be a freak issue with the version of windows I put on it. Thanks eveyone
December 28th, 2007 at 7:42 pm
Hi, thanks for your tips. My 5315 works a lot faster with XP. For instance I can read h264 720p / 1080p vids, which was absolutely impossible under vista…
However, I have noticed something weird in the device manager: there are 2 graphic chips and 3 screens (3 times the same). But I installed XP from scratch and drivers only once… Is this normal?
Thanks for your help
Craig
December 28th, 2007 at 7:45 pm
By the way, I see people who have sound problems here. I used these drivers and they worked like a charm: http://www.realtek.com.tw/dow…finition%20Audio%20Codecs
December 28th, 2007 at 11:34 pm
Dom, I did what you said and it’s working fine now. I’m an idiot. Anyway, I also found that the display brightness can be controled on the keyboard (Fn + arrow), so I can set it low to conserve the battery. Thanks for everybodys’ help.
December 29th, 2007 at 8:43 am
I have a problem with ACER 5315 - I can’t shut down Windows XP, I can’t put it into hibernate. It hangs at the windows is shutting down screen…
Updated bios to 1.21, downloaded yr drivers.
By the way - A real shame drivers that come with the computer are Vista only.
December 29th, 2007 at 9:25 am
Hi ALL,
thank you for incredible description of installation and solutions/workarounds of the “fan” problem:
1. NHC looks as really working
2. empowering software has some problems - at least version 2.00.2016 downloaded from Acer’s ftp does not initialize the fan sometimes after returning out of standby (but hibernation works fine). ePower version 2.00.2017 might have the same issue unfortunatelly I was not able to simulate it on my model
3. bios 1.21 does not solve the “fan” problem
4. for those who want to try: there is another (older) version of empowering technology software for windows 2k/xp without .net framework, please let us know whether it works for you or not; it is located in ftp://ftp.work.acer-euro.com/n…wering_technology/utility/tm3300/
December 29th, 2007 at 9:37 am
Danijel: try to use the drivers from the CD, most of them can be used both for XP as for Vista - at least chipset driver, sata driver and sound driver; you can download latest graphic drivers (and chipset drivers too) directly from Intel site. Broadcom and ALPS touchpad drivers can be downloaded either from Acer’s ftp (acerpanam.com has the ALPS drivers for Windows XP bundled in Synaptics package) or from this site since it is the same version.
Your problem can be caused by bad graphic drivers, try to use actual drivers from Intel site.
December 29th, 2007 at 10:11 am
Man, great guide. Thanks! I loved the laptop at that price for an internet machine, but with Vista I could only get online wirelessly about 60% of the time. I just completed my downgrade with no issues…I used the Internet and CD Burner method. I chose this so I could just save the XP disc it created in case I needed to re-use it down the line. Again, thanks! Flawless downgrade
December 29th, 2007 at 10:13 am
Does anyone have the original drivers from this machine backed up online anywhere for download? I forgot to back those up before I downgraded…I would like to have them handy in the event that I want to upgrade somewhere down the line when Vista is a little more “enhanced”.
December 29th, 2007 at 10:55 am
Hello,
I got an Aspire 5315-052G12Mi, and managed to install XP on it using various guides available (thanks for all the hard work, lads!). However, I still have a sound issue, namely, it just won’t reproduce any sounds. I’ve pretty much done everything relevant that’s discussed on page, and still, nothing. While I’m writing this, I’m waiting for Danijel’s miracle cure to download, namely the wXP driver from the realtek website. However, I must admit, I’ve tried to install versions R1.76 and R1.81 before, and those didn’t help, so I’m not putting my hopes up. I’m also trying to get my mind to familiarise itself with the idea of re-formatting my C: drive (ironically, containing the restore point files of Vista).
The thing is, whenever I go and look in device manager, there are no yellow question marks, everything seems to be okay, except it’s as if the computer wasn’t aware that an audio device is present.
Does anybody have any suggestions? I’d like to avoid re-installing my wXP, as I’m rather short of time, and I haven’t got another 12 hours to spare…
Thanks loads, guys:
George
December 29th, 2007 at 11:16 am
Hi
Does anyone know if fan problem would be possible to solve with BIOS update or it is hardware issue that we will have to live with?
NHC works fine for me, but I just do not feel comfortable with it.
For example, if you shut down NHC, then go to sleep mode and then restart NHC it will not solve overheating problem. Not to mention not being able to install other OS (Linux, FreeBSD)…
It is obvious that NHC or empowering is only a bad way to fix overheating problem. Fix should be on lower level, I only do not know if it is doable at all.
How about making some kind of petition to Acer from all of us?
Regards,
Vel
December 29th, 2007 at 11:57 am
Hello again ,
Regarding Acer Arcade Deluxe for Windows XP… i have no reply from you … do you know if i can take it from one site ?
The second problem is with shut down : i have Windows XP & SP2 . I command Shut Down … after that is writing : saving your settings … windows is shutting down . The issue is that the PC is not shutting down . I let it for 2 hours like that and the same message on the desktop … windows id shutting down . What should i do ? Everytime i turn off the pc from the power button .
PLEASE HELP !
December 29th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
DG, You didnt create a back-up recovery cd/dvd..before you “upgraded” to XP ?
If not everything you need is available here. http://www.acerpanam.com/synapse/forms/acerdrivers.cfm.
OR..you can order a recovery CD from ACER by going here
https://secure3.tx.acer.com/RCD/Main.aspx
December 29th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
Marek: Tried both graphical drivers, both hang windows. Indeed it should be .the graphical driver as if I uninstall it and work at 1024×768 it works. Will try different solutions.
December 29th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
Thanks for this tutorial on the installing of XP. This helped out much and the nlite is the best.
BJ
December 29th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
I’ve installed XP + the stuff in this article on my aspire 5315 and I seem to be having the opposite fan problem - mine doesn’t shut up. On a continuous basis, CPU temp is 45C for about 4 or 5 seconds and then it shows 50C and the CPU fan comes on full blast, quite loud hum/buzz for around 10-15 seconds. The CPU load is a constant 1% to 6%, so barely ticking over. This is non-stop! It’s extremely distracting and is driving me nuts.
Does this scenario sound normal? Is there a way to stop the fan coming on so much? I’ve installed all the software on the list, I think. The EPower management stuff does not seem to have any effect at all on the fan, nor does the Notebook Hardware Control (I have installed both separately and together and behaviour is the same). I have upgraded the BIOS from 1.17 to 1.21 (latest), again no effect. I did the switch to XP with the HD in IDE mode, and haven’t installed any AHCI drivers, and BIOS is still IDE mode (though does that have any effect on CPU?)
Even tried the SpeedFan program, same again.
Any ideas anyone PLEASE? This laptop is going back if I can’t solve this!
Many thanks,
Alex
December 29th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
Further to my post above, I assume I need some ACPI software for XP - drivers or something? Nothing about it in this post or comments that I can obviously see, so any advice much appreciated!
Thanks
December 29th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
Hi there,
Just to say I managed to sort out the sound, on an Aspire 5315-052G12Mi. This model appears to be behaving slightly differently to the -2153, but similarly to the other alphanumerically ending models. Persevere, people, it can be done
G’nite and thank you for an EXCELLENT guide!
December 30th, 2007 at 2:28 am
I don’t know why everyone is so focused on getting Windows XP. With Vista my computer worked fine after I performed a clean install, and removed all unecessary startup items. When it was all said and done my notebook was only using around 612 of the 1024MB RAM. IMHO that isn’t bad at all.
To me the real issue is why this computer overheats! Mine did it twice even with the stupid ePower utility installed. That application clearly has nothing to do with the fan and temperatures. The BIOS v1.21 did nothing as well. After resuming from standby the fans refuse to come on. As time goes by the laptop gets hotter and hotter until it just shuts off abruptly. Mine was very hot on the bottom, and had some smokey/electrical odor. It will actually burn your legs when it’s on your lap. I think it’s a bad design, and Acer needs to recall these machines. Another thing I noticed is the heft and bulk of the thing. It barely fits in my case, it’s heavy, and the screen makes everything look too small. This thing of making all the laptops have wide screens these days is annoying. Laptops are supposed to be portable and light.
I contacted Acer about overheating, and they have yet to respond. What are you people going to do with your crappy lappy?
December 30th, 2007 at 6:01 am
Carl - this fan behaviour you describe is normal when you ran Vista. With XP installed the fan calms down a bit. Others have commented on this before. Overheating occurs with mine only after sleep mode but not after hybernation mode (Vista) so I set mine to hybernation. BTW upgrade to 2GB makes very little difference in speed (again with Vista).
December 30th, 2007 at 6:05 am
Sorry, my above comment about the fan is a response to AlexK and not Carl.
December 30th, 2007 at 4:50 pm
nice info n good job u all.alex adm great job.I would like to change to XP but I will wait that you put in rapidshare or somewhere an iso with all data or better search on emule for unatended iso for our 5315, i bought mine to make a course on university so experiments to “upgrade” to XP will be delayed till i finish it in April cos i do not want to have a crash computer during course.for your info no problems with overheating by now but the partitions and for me is a little bit slow with vista, i am runnning all in low level and classic vista.thx n good job
December 30th, 2007 at 5:43 pm
HI Guys,
unfortunately, even with the NHC software the nothebook overheating when i use the standby OPTION !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
im now thinking going back my laptop to wallmart !!!
anyways for those who decide keep this laptopn even if overheathing problem, there a way to remove the standby option from the start menu :
for hibernate option you can uncheck this option in the power mangement icon from control panel …
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/disablestandby.reg
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ACPI\Parameters]
“AMLIMaxCTObjs”=hex:04,00,00,00
“Attributes”=dword:00000070
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ACPI\Parameters\WakeUp]
“FixedEventMask”=hex:20,05
“FixedEventStatus”=hex:00,84
“GenericEventMask”=hex:18,50,00,10
“GenericEventStatus”=hex:10,00,ff,00
if someone found something else let me know
Dominic
December 30th, 2007 at 6:15 pm
to verify if the fan goes ON after hibernate / standby SIMPLY RUN THIS TOOLS to generate heat !!!
CPU BURN !!!
http://users.bigpond.net.au/cpuburn/downloads/CPU_burn-in.zip
for now my fan run only when i come back from hibernate and not from standby !!!!
Dominic
December 30th, 2007 at 7:55 pm
Great job chaps. Sorted my girlfriends Christmas present very nicely. Hello XP. Bye Bye Vista. Merry Xmas.
Thank You
December 30th, 2007 at 8:14 pm
This just didn’t work well for me…couldn’t get the wireless connection to work on my home network. Works on the unsecured one next door. Don’t know if that was a WPAv2 issue or what.
Then it seemed like the drivers would stop working and boot into crappy video resolution and a reboot might fix it or a reinstall of the intel video drivers.
Beyond that, all the hardware was recognized and seemed like it should work properly.
Just couldn’t get it stable enough to make it work good.
I might try again and see if I cannot fix the problems, knowing that my image of Vista Ultimate is recoverable.
December 30th, 2007 at 8:19 pm
thankx
December 30th, 2007 at 8:21 pm
for any help about hardware and software or network. k7alidnet@hotmail.com
December 30th, 2007 at 9:43 pm
got wireless working - had to download the patch from Microsoft…so far so much better!
December 30th, 2007 at 9:46 pm
forgot the KB article for WPAv2 - KB893357
December 30th, 2007 at 11:41 pm
So is everybody okay with laptops that overheat?
December 30th, 2007 at 11:58 pm
What is the solution for overheating? OR is it isolated to a few?
December 31st, 2007 at 2:05 am
Alex
serdar - unless I missed a beat, that would be an “Unknown Device on the HD Audio Bus” or something similar.. not an “Unknown PCI Device”. I’m fairly sure you guys are talking about separate things.. am I right? (don’t want to put my foot in my mouth here)
After letting windows install driver for unknown PCI device, Unknown device on HD Audio Bus suddenly appeared. that is why I thought they are relevant.
but you are most definetely right. It is my mistake.
by the way I am using laptop for 5 days and I did not have any heating problems yet on XP.
December 31st, 2007 at 9:49 am
Overheating appear only when you come back from standby or hibernate sleep…
in my case the heating problem appear only when i come back from standby sleep only. I have no problem when i come back from hibernate sleep mode
Do the test when you come back from stanby mode by using the software CPU-BURN for at lest 30 to 60 minutes, if problem appear you gonna see temperature increase and your laptop can shutdown , you gonna also see that you fan does NOT working when you come back from standby mode…
http://users.bigpond.net.au/cpuburn/downloads/CPU_burn-in.zip
if you dont going back to standby mode, you never gonna have heating cpu problem. It is a bug that happen only when you going back from standby or (may be) hibernate sleep….
Dominic
December 31st, 2007 at 1:50 pm
Hello Alex first i want to tell you that your website is awesome, it helped me to install windows xp on my aspire 5315 - 2153. I have two of these laptops and i succed in just one. The other one, the same, im having trouble in the wireless driver, i install it, but nothing happens, what could be the error or what could i do to have my wireless working, i need your help and ill apreciate it
December 31st, 2007 at 6:17 pm
aroberto - nothing happens or it doesn’t connect to anything? if it doesn’t connect, you might need to download the MS patch to enable WPA v2. If you’re not using WPAv2 - then your wireless is at risk.
I couldn’t connect to my wireless LAN w/o this patch. I was also required to download another patch (don’t know which) before I could install the one below.
The KB is here = http://support.microsoft.com/kb/893357
January 1st, 2008 at 9:57 am
Hi Aroberto. Are you sure that the two laptops have the same wireless card? Look on the back of your laptop, there should be a sticker with the name and type of the WLAN card. Of the two 5315’s that I bought at the same store on the same day, one has the Atheros card and the other a broadcom.
January 1st, 2008 at 10:36 pm
My MY MY……what is wrong with just shutting the computer off when done with it…..I have no overheating probs…..the fan comes on and off for a few seconds at a time and is very quiet..computer works like a charm….by the way…I took the back up disks and loaded them on a spare hard drive in my desktop computer and had vista running with no probs…just used the delete programs and removed all the acer stuff….an easy way to get vista on another computer if you want….
January 1st, 2008 at 10:54 pm
Has anybody sent theirs back to Acer for repair of the overheat issue?
January 2nd, 2008 at 8:25 am
hello again ,
I have a ACER ASPIRE 5351 notebook and i can`t shut down it , i cand`t pui it in stand by … any ideea ? The operating sistem is Win XP & SP2 . After i order shut down , the hdd is stoped and the message is windows is shutting down … but whithowt shutting . The same sheet with Stand By …
The battery is out . Could pe this the problem ?
What shoul i do ?
January 2nd, 2008 at 8:41 am
sorry … is about ACER ASPIRE 5315 ..
January 2nd, 2008 at 11:34 am
Thanks falks it realy helped me to put mfck XP on.
January 2nd, 2008 at 1:40 pm
I have followed all the directions several times. I have 2 issues. First the primary display on the laptop will not work. I get picture if i plug a display in to the external port but not the internal one. Second the wireless lan card will not activate. The device manager says it is installed and working but i set the laptop right next to my wireless router and get no networks found. Please assist.
January 2nd, 2008 at 7:19 pm
hello again i still cant use my wireless i installed broadcom and atheros and intel drivers, but the icon of the wireless conection doesnt apear, nothing happens
i installed xp following this in another laptop, the same one, but the other one the only thing i cant use is my wireless everything else is working perfect.
any ideas please i need some help
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:01 am
thanks to everybody giving props… now for those with the problems, heh…
if WiFi doesn’t work, please make sure the radio is enabled!!! there are Fn hotkeys on the keyboard to disable it, IIRC… otherwise, as other commenters suggested, take off the little cover on the back.. there is a small (1in by 3in maybe?) wifi card with two antenna cables that go to it… see if it’s Atheros or Broadcom or (possibly) Intel… the drivers posted here are only for Atheros.
some people seem to be having overheating issues, even with ePM or NHC… if you do, then your notebook is not OK. -most- of us have -NO- overheating issue at this point. would everybody please calm the hell down, i’m tired of hearing about this issue. the solution is posted, the -alternative- solution is posted… it should be 100% solved. if it’s not, you have a DOA notebook, -face- -it-.
quick note on vista… this notebook is better suited than the average low-end notebook for running Vista… it has GMA3100 instead of GMA950, and the whole point of GMA3100 is vista… still doesn’t mean we want to run Vista on it right now, heh.
aaaand… the WPA2 update, is that not on Windows Update? all I did was install all the windows updates, I’m curious about whether this (pretty old) patch is included, and don’t have time to look now.
everybody who’s having problems and -hasn’t- run windows update… -SHAME- on you. please STFU and run windows update.
Carl - STFU, send it back to acer.
Marius - I will check about the battery for you… I tested mine with the battery out, I -think-. I’ll test again. I’m fairly certain that’s not the issue. You need to look at what you’ve got.. the notebook may not be “OK”. and no… you don’t get any Acer Arcade.
AlexK - no idea, never booted vista… but i doubt the fan should be super loud. compare it with another new notebook. if the Acer is deafining, then it has issues. WinXP and Vista both already have ACPI drivers. if you don’t understand making the switch from IDE Mode to AHCI… that’s that. links have already been posted in the comments thread.
Dominic is right, if you don’t put it to sleep, you probably won’t see the “sleep overheating issue”… LOL. on the other hand… if you have the software (NHC or ePM) and still see the issue.. that’s bad. nobody else does. run CPU Burn, Prime95, Orthos, Folding@Home, or whatever you like to load the CPU with… but obviously you’ll need to heat it up to see the issue easily.
doso2o - there will be no rapidshare, emule, bt, etc. the guide is easy, it allows you to use the SW you already own… just follow the guide or live with Vista.
sorry to anybody I missed. probably best to post again if you haven’t had your questions answered… but read carefully to make sure, or you might get chewed out.
and thanks to everyone answering other people’s questions (geezer you are certainly not stepping on anyone’s toes!)
January 3rd, 2008 at 11:38 am
I will look into the function keys to turn on the wireless card. But my other problem is my display. I can get an external display to work correctly but my internal one displays nothing. On the settings tab it shows both displays but when i click on the display 2 to activate say to extend my desktop and hit apply it just blinks the control pannel and puts it back. That usually means there is no display attached but obviously it is. THis display works ok until i install the drivers. Is it possible the drivers i am installing are not correct? if so how do i find out what video card i acutally have. Second, there is no display listed in the device manager. This might also be the cause as the machine has an Svideo out port. The second display might be that one. If this is the case how do i find the drivers to locate the display. Lastly I wish to play World of Warcraft on this machine and it states that there is no approperate display found. This is what is leading me to beleave that the display just isnt being recignized. I have tried the function keys to change displays but the only one listed on the dialog box is the external display. I would appreciate any help you can give in this manner.
January 3rd, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Hi!I have a question - when you say that this will work on Acer Aspire 5315-2153,does that means that this will work on my Acer Aspire 4315?Or is Acer Aspire 5315-2153 one single model of lap top?
Thanx
January 3rd, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Hello,
I tried this tutorial and it really works. For me, Acer 5315 appears to be involved with support of WIndows Vista- although the Acer Driver Cd autorun option dont run propertly, the problem dissapears when Vista is installed on the computer.
But I still had a problem with broadcom WIFI card, my wireless connection was not found. I tried a new pack of driver from polish website:
http://www.softwarepatch.pl/…CM943XX%29-v-480287.html
and it really works.
So if there are more people with such a problem I hope my advice could be usefull for them. Maybe the same pack of drivers is available on bradcom website, but I could not find it.
January 3rd, 2008 at 5:34 pm
manstrone - the Acer Aspire 5315-2153 is a “specific” model, not a range of models… you could also say that it is model-submodel… whatever. this article is targetted at one very specific notebook. users of other notebook models may still follow the guide, especially if it is a “gemstone” series notebook… just don’t expect all our drivers to work.
macmaster9600 - try using the intel utility (should be in the system tray)… that has settings that -may- be wrong. i’m not at home at the moment, but if it’s set to “external display only” instead of “mirror external and LCD panel” or something like that, maybe that’s the issue? hopefully you catch my drift, as I can’t “step by step” it from here.
January 3rd, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Alex…. Thank you very much… excellent work!!!
i had to use nlite w/ winxp pro sp0…..
but by downloading the SP2 distrio approx 250megs
and downloading the “ALL DRIVERS” Zip file and burning then to a CD,
then making my NLITE XP PRO SP0 install disk..
i was able to load XP using the Created Nlite disk,, then applied the SP2 update from the Drivers CD i created first…. then everything went EXACTLY as documented in your instructions.
I’ve read the entire blog lasgtnight…. but i’m kinda hazy on the fan resume from suspend/hibernate mode… any verified fixes to allow suspend/hibernate??? i’m gonna try to test a few ideas myself, have you heard of anyone cutting the fan power inputs and feeding them from an always on powersource… i think i’m gonna go that route HEHEHE
man you saved me hours of trouble and made me aware of the fan issue.
for all of this i thank you.
January 4th, 2008 at 8:15 am
I realized that epower Management software for travel mate 6592 for vista is identical to 5315’s. they are bot Epower Management v2.5.4014.
in this regard I assumed that xp version of epower Management of 6592 will work perfect for 5315. I do not have my 5315 with me right now. but as soon as I try it I will inform you all.
you can download ePower Mananger v2.0.4002 xp for 6592 from here:
http://rapidshare.com/file…nt_v2.0.4002_XP.zip.html
or from here
http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/notebook/tm_6592.html
January 4th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Thanks for the advice, but i tried to check the intel utility. It is currently only displaying one display(the external one) it just tells me to connect an additional display. It is for this reason that i think it is not reading my internal display as being attached. If i disable the external display in the device manager it will show a picture on my internal display but the color options and resolutions are all horrible. On a side note another nice feature of the Nlite softwere is that you can intigrate the service packs and system updates into the nlite software install. Additionally you can intigrate the drivers for all of these deviced into the driver.cab file, from within Nlite. Then make one standard xp boot disk that does the entire process for you. That way once you have everything inplace you can make one simple dvd or cd boot disk to set the machine up just as if you were acer. Thanks again for all your help.
January 4th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
Marius!
I have an ACER ASPIRE 5351 notebook, and I can’t shutdown, restart, hibernate etc… too. The same problem like yours. The OS is Win XP Sp2. I was starting to try to solve this problem some days ago, and maybe I have got a solution now. I was uninstall the (Suyin) Acer CrystalEye webcam driver and application, and the shutdown, restart, hibernate etc… works fine. Please check it, if you can. (Sorry my english is poor.)
January 4th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
I played around with NHC a little bit and I found that I can only use the “Max Performance” setting for the CPU speed. ALL OTHER SETTINGS WOULD CAUSE OVERHEATING ISSUES AFTER STANDBY. I apologize for shouting, but I think that this could help out a few people that still have issues.
January 4th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
…come to think of it, I wonder if this is what’s causing the variable sucess with ePower. You might have to have that one in max performance in order to use the fan after standby. I’m too lazy to test it for myself.
January 5th, 2008 at 5:47 am
Hello everybody,
My sister bought the same acer 5315 and she got the problem with shut downing for no reason, this notebook have intel CPU 1.73GHz but it works on 1.86Ghz how I can decrease processor frequency to default ( 1.73GHz ),I think that this could solve this problem. I tried with all of this from this site but it didn’t work,so if somebody can help I will be gratefull, but maybe that model 5315 has some kind of hardware mistake in start
January 5th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Disregard my last post. My findings were incorrect because I forgot that the fan will work if it was running when it went into standby. Since I haven’t found a fix to this problem, I was looking into returning this computer, but a replacement would cost ~$500 vs the $348 I payed for this. I think that this laptop is still worth it even without standby. I changed the power settings to never go in stanby and to shut the computer down at 3% power when running on the battery.
I found a screensaver that would shut the computer down after a certain amount of inactivity, but I couldn’t apply it to battery only, so I didn’t use it.
January 6th, 2008 at 1:00 am
HI,
i have return the laptop to walmart, this laptop was to cheap for me,also the fan issue is unacceptable even if a workaround has been found !!!
special thanks to all !
Dominic
astalavista baby!
January 6th, 2008 at 1:36 am
ok… I have formatted the machine three times. intigrated all the drivers listed here into my installer. I have tried all the hotkeys I could find as well as tried the fn keys. I am showing a floppy disk controller on my device manager but no display. if I attach an external display it installs three devices for the one display. every thing works great, except my display and wireless card. I have two of these machines and need to roll back as soon as possible. please help me.
January 6th, 2008 at 8:17 am
Alex this is magnifcent, Ive just run through the steps using xp home sp2. It worked a treat, just right this moment loaded the last driver. The machine now goes like a Ferrari. Thank you very much. Cal
January 6th, 2008 at 8:40 am
Ciao Alex please i need your help.. i have an acer aspire 5315 and i read your posts to install windows xp.. worked fine thanks thanks thanks you are a good man! But now i have another problem.. i need to change in BIOS the Hdd in sata mode again.. but i dont have the drivers… for HDD … And i need to change the video card memory becouse i have 10 mb and i want to put 128 but there is disabled and i cant modify … someone has an answer? Thanks for this good website and for your time! regards George
January 6th, 2008 at 9:25 am
I have tested ePower Mananger v2.0.4002 xp for 6592 on 5315.
it works. after stand by runs fan whenever needed not continuously.
so I confirm that Epower Management software solves shut down problem after stand by.
January 6th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Hi, I would like to thank you, Alex, for your work. I spent only two hours installing XP on my 5315-052G12Mi. I decided to keep Vista to mantain the warranty and on the other partition I installed XP. No problem at all, I just wanted to tell you that before I installed the Realtek HD drivers, I installed the UAA drivers, and then that and had no problems. I tried installing all of the epower utilities, but only 4 works fine: ePower, ePresentation, eSettings and ePerformance. The other ones crash or do not install at all (such eNet, which doesn’t find any compatible peripheral). Hope I contributed a little to this very useful post. Thanks again!
January 6th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
regards everyone…
Travis - sounded good for a minute though, eh? thanks for trying… that little twist where it works if it’s spinning when it goes off is a real trick.
George - sorry, -noone- can help you. you are like the undead… already lost! or maybe you just need to head back up the comments thread, there is a link to the forum posts which concern switching from IDE back to AHCI mode, and getting the drivers to work. if you’ve already installed intel chipset drivers, then you have the required ones. as far as the video memory, that’s just too bad. i don’t care why you want 128MB of RAM, it wouldn’t help you to have it: the onboard VGA controller is not powerful enough. it’s not something you can upgrade on this notebook anyway. the setting may not be modified, and the slot is not attached the the motherboard. you are simply out of luck. that question was -also- discussed previously in the comment thread.
macmaster9600 - maybe -that- is your problem! have you been integrating all the drivers into the installer? WTF is your deal? did you follow the guide? the guide did -not- say “integrate all the drivers into your install disk”. you need to follow the guide. if you follow the guide -precisely- (like everyone else who is -successful-), it should work. if it does not, you have BAD NOTEBOOKS, and should get them fixed or returned for money back. i’d say that in this case, you need to learn from others’ mistakes AND successes.
serdar - did you already try the version we have available for download here? it’s probably the same thing anyway… just curious. i’ll check later, maybe.
January 7th, 2008 at 12:24 am
Actually the intigration method works. my problem was that when the installer tried to install the video displays it would cut off my built in display. I tried it again with an external display attached during install and it worked. I now have everything working great and this thing is FAST. thanks for all your help. Sorry I was a bit frustrated earler but everthing is good now. You all ROCK!!!
January 7th, 2008 at 5:58 am
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January 7th, 2008 at 11:18 am
Thanks So much, you saved me tons of time trying to figure this all out!! I would probably have given up! YOU ROCK!!!!!
January 7th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Всем привет!!! Конечно я так и не понял что вы все здесь написали, но зато на этой страничке я нашёл дрова которые подошли именно к моей модели ноута (Acer Aspire 5315) и хочу сказать спасибо тому кто их выложил….
January 7th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Thank you for the drivers!
January 8th, 2008 at 5:17 am
alex
first off all thank you very much for all these helpful and continous informations.
about the epower management. no I have not installed the software given in this site. I am using the 6592 version. according to version numbers they seem to be different but I have’nt tried yet.
it is working but user interface and power profiles are different than the ones shown in user manual of 5315.
January 8th, 2008 at 9:14 am
Hy. thx for the info on the site … but my touchpad still dosen`t work, … I`ve instaled the drivers but it dosen`t work.. if u have something that can detect if the hardware works pls …. thx
January 8th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Hello.
I’ve installed XP on a virtual PC in my Acer 5315-101G12Mi (With Windows Vista) following your CD guide. But, when i tried to install Intel Chipset, I get that miminum requirements are not present to install software!
Can you help me?
January 8th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Hello again.
Does anybody knows how many times can a user reinstall in the notebook the ACER recovery DVDs with factory configurations, made manually through Acer eRecovery? I was told in the store that i could only do this one time. Is it different if i do it with the dvds or with the hidden Acer partition?
Thank you…
January 8th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Hi,
Has anyone tried an XP install on an Acer Aspire 5520 series laptop? I see some XP drivers here:
http://www.acerpanam.com/fle…N=40217867
Thanks
January 8th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
tugal - sorry, you are asking questions that I don’t normally worry about… for me, I install Vista as many times as I want.. but I don’t use the “restore” so I don’t really know how that works. I also have never really used VM’s at all, other people always seem to be doing that but I don’t have a need right now… so I’ve got no clue on that bit either. on the other hand, maybe Dan will have an idea on that. I’ll ask him if he knows anything.
SsabB - your touchpad is turned off. use the Fn key combo on the keyboard to turn it back on. do you see the pointing device in your device manager? if it’s not there, then you have a broken laptop. if it is… lament the fact that you failed to read the comment thread, and had to get told to enable your touchpad.
January 8th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
David K - I’d venture to guess that the answer is no. this is really the wrong arena to put that question to… most people here have only done this once, or they wouldn’t need the tutorial… you want to be posting in a laptop forum, with a question like that. but better yet, why not try it yourself and let us know how it turns out?
January 9th, 2008 at 5:50 am
SIMPLE SOLUTION FOR ATHEROS WIRELWESS PROBLEM
thanks, xp installed fine except for atheros wireless problems. the driver you listed does not work properly, ie. computer found card, card found network and connected, but i could not use the internet….
anyway another forum suggested using an older acer 5100 xp wifi driver available at -
http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/notebook/as_5100.html
- so i did, and the wireless worked straight away, no problem.
hope this helps
January 9th, 2008 at 6:07 am
Hi there. i just cant read the comments so i’m sorry if it’s already asked. But please answer, i cant stand Vista any longer x_____________x . (Namely because i cant get what post go with which x_______x )
I’ve got a aspire 5315-2681. can i somehow use the guide to install a windows XP - SP3 into it? and my windows version is downloaded from the internet x________________x (said to be working) .
And about all the chipsets and empowering technology, are they compatible with my laptop?
Thanks.
January 9th, 2008 at 7:01 am
Hello,
does someone have any experience with aspire running linux with aceracpi module (at http://code.google.com/p/aceracpi/) ?
Does this module solve the overheating problem?
Thank you. Marek
January 9th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Hello sirs,
This is the definitive site for Acer 5315! Congrats and many thanks ! I read it all in gulp. Question: I bought just today the Aspire 5315-051G12Mi. At the advice of the salesman I switched in BIOS to the opposite of AHCI, that is, IDE, and loaded pretty smoothly Windows XP Professional. Now I realize that I need drivers for almost everthing else, if not everything. The Question is: should I switch back the AHCI and try the “floppy” method reinstalling the same Win XP Pro because of speed reason and data corruption possibility? I don’t mind doing it over ! I own a ZIP DRIVE with several of those chubby floppies that can contain 250 mb of data ? That is my second Question : will it do the job for me in choosing the FLOPPY method ?
Thanks for your time !
January 9th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
I mention that it is a usb IOMEGA external 250 zip drive…
January 9th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Marek - no, the Acer ACPI module has -not- been updated to fix the overheating issue. you need to -disable- sleep in linux!
Teo - I would reload with AHCI, i’ve already said as much several times. Your ZIP drive will not work. you need to either use a -floppy- drive (a zip drive is not a floppy drive), or you need to follow the other part of the guide and make a CD using nLite.
Yuki - I do not support SP3. it has not entered the windows update stream. the guide is for SP2. you may feel free to -try- SP3. don’t ask for help here. SP3 is not released yet. why don’t you use your retail Windows XP disk?
January 9th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Thanks for the advice. I’m currently doing the nLite part of the guide with a win XP Pro. It’s been running for hrs on end and have not stop (and is still on intergrating drivers). The folder has gone up to above 9GB. I know I’m not a computer expert, so i wanted to ask if i have gone wrong somewhere. x___________x
Thanks. (and pardon my english x_________x )
January 9th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
Yuki - your english is fine so far. sounds like something has gone wrong. I would cancel that and just try again. for me, nLite ran very fast, certainly well under 30minutes. sounds like a glitch. I’m not sure how large the folder should be, but I doubt it should be more than 1 or 2 gigabytes.
January 9th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
i canceled the nLite and redo it, this time it only take a bout 3 hrs and the files is about 8GB. I did everything according to what the guide stated. Do u think that copy of the windows work, because i’m not sure if i should burn it out or not (8GB wont fit into a 4.7GB DVD and i thought the program is going to divide the folder into 2 iso).
And i have another question, for the recovery program, when u make a Factory Recovery Discs, is that going to change ur whole system back to the original time when u purchased the laptop even if u installed a new windows?
Thanks.
January 10th, 2008 at 12:43 am
Actually, it works this time (the third time). It’s my fault so i’m very sorry for the inconvenient >_____
January 10th, 2008 at 4:21 am
tugal - once you have made a recovery DVD, you can re-install your 5315 to the original factory settings as many times as you like.
January 10th, 2008 at 4:40 am
Hi there again ! I am grateful for your help. I did switched back to AHCI, seemed to have worked fine. I skyped installing the Touched Pad driver ’cause the touchpad functions satisfactorily for me. I mean it acts like a touchpad already. But when installing the Acer Empowering Framework is asked me to have Net framework 1.1 (I believe) installed at first. Is that normal? I am following closely (except the touchpad, I admit) the order in the steps you provided… Please, I want to have your input again !
January 10th, 2008 at 5:00 am
Just to not waste your time, I’ll give it a try installing what is asking me, that is the Net Framework 1.1… and see what happens. Thanks !
January 10th, 2008 at 5:20 am
It worked ! Now if you could only give me a suggestion about the necessity of installing the Touch Pad, do I really need it ? Don’t want to ruin the smooth installation I’ve done so far following your guideline.
January 10th, 2008 at 7:48 am
Teo : As far as I know, you do not need the TouchPad drivers for the touchpad to work (at least mine works without them).
I have seen on the Ubuntu forum a post that says the overheating problem is fixed by installing epowermanagement but it doe not work for me (after a while the laptop gets really hot and the fan won’t function) - should I change some kind of setting on the power management profile?
Thanks for your time.
January 10th, 2008 at 7:49 am
I mean installing epowermanagement on Windows XP - not Ubuntu.
January 10th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
Teo - you don’t need it. to be honest I don’t use it. probably adds some touchpad features such as touch to scroll.
January 10th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
I have completed the installation, indeed except the Touch Pad and the lappie seem to work just fine. I thank you for the work you’ve done here and the patience shown. God bless!
January 10th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Thank you so much, I’d spent hours sourcing XP drivers until I found this page. Had everything loaded and working in no time. Much appreciated
January 11th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
Thanks for this fantastic site, also just installed Notebook Hardware Control and seems to work like a charm including testing from standby so highly recommended!
I myself experienced an issue with the hitachi drive clicking - see http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_hard_drive_clicking
seemed to resolve this by using the feature util to change acoustic management and powersave settings http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#FeatureTool
Hope this helps for anyone else having similar issues!
January 12th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
to get the xp installation cd recognize the hard drive, you just need to set in the bios, the hard drive to IDE. the default option is different, just change it.
January 12th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
nlbk: i would recommend using AHCI instead of IDE, there are quite a lot of discussion boards saying why… so rather patch the installation cd and include ahci drivers instead of switching to ide mode…
to others: do you know some application which can make windows xp similar visual effects like vista aero?
January 12th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Marek, found this:
http://www.tech-recipes.co…ok_like_vista_longhorn_free but haven’t tested it….
Tugal (regarding Alex’s comment on VMs) - I suppose a VM would be one route — saving a VM image and reusing it… might not fit with your particular scenario or needs though. Looks like pet2000 may have had some positive experience as far as re-installing with a recovery DVD, so that sounds good…
January 13th, 2008 at 3:07 am
Dan: thanks but I meant the effects not the look. btw this really works i’ve already tested it some time ago…
January 13th, 2008 at 7:40 am
brilliant instructions thanks a load
January 13th, 2008 at 10:47 am
Dan/Marek - to make XP look like Vista - get the Vista Tranformation Pack - a single download that does it all.
http://www.windowsxlive.net/?page_id=15
January 13th, 2008 at 10:50 am
i found these page very useful, but the problem is that only the lan driver doesnt work..all of the drivers working fine and the installation is almost perfect except for this one. im using acer aspire 5315 series..can u help me with this please,tnx in adv.!
January 13th, 2008 at 10:50 am
i found these page very useful, but the problem is that the lan driver doesnt work..all of the drivers working fine and the installation is almost perfect except for this one. im using acer aspire 5315 series..can u help me with this please,tnx in adv.!
January 14th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Hello guys.
I have installed OpenBSD 4.2 on Aspire 5315:
-Sound works
-WI-FI(ath0) works
-LAN(bge0) works
-No overheating. Fans don’t stop
Good luck!
January 14th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
im sapanish, i bought acer aspire 5313. you are the best, all the drives here… ¡¡¡¡¡Workig!!!!!!!
thanks,thanks,thanks….
Sorry if i’ve mitakes XD
January 14th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
I just did this to my daughter 4315. It worked perfectly, and all the drivers provided worked except the ethernet. One has to search Yukon for that one. Otherwise, it was perfect. Thanks for providing this info.
—Joe HC
January 14th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
Hi, what about fan control, did you find some application? speedfan does not work for acer 5315… my acer’s temperature is between 45 - 50 degrees, usually the fan starts at 50 and stops when 45 is reached again… it is quite disturbing… so i would like to change some settings for fan control somehow… any ideas?
January 16th, 2008 at 1:47 am
hi alex and all….from snowy canada….anyways is there a way to adjust the brighness of the screen as the control panel for xp has no control…it is quite bright and thought it might save power if not so bright when on battery….just thinking….
January 16th, 2008 at 2:11 am
canada
Acer epower management software enables adjusting lcd brightnes in different power schemes. there you would find preset power schemes with different lcd brightnes values or you can also adjust and personalise these settings.
for example there is a scheme named maximum battery life. in this one lcd brightness is minimum. I can not remember the value but brightness is very low to save the battery.
other than lcd brightness with this sw you can also adjust cpu speed, wireless and lan on/off, monitor and harddisk turn of time etc etc.
by the way it is also snowy in Turkey.
January 16th, 2008 at 4:05 am
for your information
chipset used in 5315 (intel Gl960) supports core duo and core2duo cpu’s.
even a guy here upgraded his 5315 to Core 2 Duo santarosa 7100.
here is the link bu it is in Turkish:
http://forum.donanimhab..tm.htm#20300684
January 16th, 2008 at 6:51 am
canada:
just press “Fn” key (blue one at left bottom) + left or right arrow - this way you can easily control the brightness… without any other tool…
the laptop “remembers” 2 states of lcd brightness - when on battery and on AC - and switches between them when you plug in/out a cable… you can set different brightness in any of them (by Fn+arrow combination)
btw for others: i do not know whether it is a feature or not but hibernation to disk does not cause an overheating issue anymore when bios 1.21 is used - and you do not need to use epower stuff - as i know hibernation made overheating on my acer with bios 1.18 (without epower). unfortunatelly if you still want standby mode, you need to use epower utility.
January 16th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Another revanmped ACER 5315 ! Wow thanxxx for the great tutorial
Speaks for itself and after studiing the procedure, I tweaked my brand new Aspire 5315 to XP.
Thanxxx again for Holland
January 16th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Thank You so much!
Wow, acer really sucks for voiding the warranty when you change operating systems.
I don’t know how you found some of these drivers, but i really appreciate your free tutorial.
January 16th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
I did get xp installed and everything works great except, neither of the 2 machines i installed on can burn cd’s. I have made sure it is enabled in windows but no matter what software i use, even trying directly through windows, It just tells me “burn error-no error” and the cd is ejected. anyone know how to resolve this issue?
January 18th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Alex,
Just downloaded the vlc player - works great!
Now if I could just get the wifi working, I’d be happy
Thanks!
January 18th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Hi Alex,
For some reason the comment I posted previously didn’t show up, so here it goes again. Apologies if it shows up twice.
First, great job on the site! I was soooo happy to find it.
I purchased my 5315-2153 as a replacement for my hp laptop. I drive a truck, and the vibration and temperature extremes are pretty hard on electronics. I average about 1 laptop every 18 months or so.
I had a lot of stuff on my old hdd, so I didn’t want to do a clean install and have to reload everything. Noting the comments on this site about acer voiding warranties for changing the os, (thanks for that!) I upgraded the hdd to a 230 gig, and ported the data over to it using acronis (trial version available on download.com — works great) on one of my desktops.
After installing the new drive in the acer, the first thing I had to do was call ms to get the license revalidated (xp home sp2). No hassle doing that other than being on hold for a while.
After that, windoze would let me in, and I loaded the drivers that you so thoughtfully provided in your excellent tutorial. All went smoothly, except the wifi won’t work, and neither did the dvd player.
Using vlc solved the dvd issue. I think that windoze just likes to invalidate licenses. All of the drm music I had lost it’s licenses, and I think that the dvd issue was caused by licensing for the codecs.
The wifi though, still doesn’t work. I can still connect to the internet via usb and my blackberry in tethered mode, but I miss not being able to get high speed in a hot spot.
When I try to connect with the wifi, it attempts to connect, and displays “not connected” for a while, then appears to connect. However, checking the status box shows it sent a lot of packets, but doesn’t receive any. I’ve tried it on several different networks, and have uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers multiple times, using multiple versions, from the tutorial and acer’s us and european websites.
I also couldn’t get the touchpad driver to load at all. The touchpad works in ps/2 mouse mode, which is adequately functional, so it’s not much of a concern.
I’ve read through all the posts here, and there are others with the same problem. I didn’t see (or maybe missed) a solution for this, so I apologize for bugging you about it.
As far as overheating, I’ve not had any issues with it, but one of the first things I did was disable the sleep mode, which was causing issues with my gps and navigation software (a critical application for me).
I know it would be a lot of work, but it would be nice to see the posts organized by subject — it takes a while to read everything on the site.
Once again, excellent job, and thanks for all your help.
Since my dvd player is now functional, I’m going to watch “The Brain That Wouldn’t Die”, while you slave away and solve my wifi problem for me
Thanks!
January 19th, 2008 at 10:47 am
Great work!
January 21st, 2008 at 6:10 am
Hi!
I bought 5315 yestarday, XP installation went without any problems. Thanks for the tutorial!
Anyway, I’ve got another problem (I don’t know if this is hardware problem, or not) - when I turn on laptop, screen remains black (no white acer logo screen) and turns on when windows is loaded (no windows logo screen, it turns on when the desktop shows up). I’ve also set up Windows to turn off screen after 10 minutes, it does it, but sometimes when I want to turn it on (by moving mouse, or pressing key) it doesn’t and I have to close and open laptop to make it turn on. Anybody experienced this?
Thanks!
January 21st, 2008 at 1:36 pm
d00die: i’ve got the same experience when laptop is plugged to an external monitor (or lcdtv in my case); when rebooted it does not show anything on the internal screen till winxp is started - even if the external monitor is switched off… it does not occur when the cable to external monitor is unplugged… it looks like the default screen for the laptop is the external one not the built-in one…
January 21st, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Thanks. WiFi driver works on XP! Been looking for ages that works.
January 22nd, 2008 at 8:43 am
Hello, do you know some good fan control program working on acer 5315 ?
January 22nd, 2008 at 5:52 pm
I too am looking for a good fan control program….it is the only issue that I have with this XP downgrade Acer 5315. Now I am going to try it on the 4315. I’ll let you know haw it goes.
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:03 am
Thanks u a lot! Only on your website I find needed information!
January 23rd, 2008 at 8:11 am
do you have some experiences - bad, good - with SpeedswitchXP ? it does not control the fan but at least it “switches” the CPU performance so it consumes less power when on battery; it seems to solve the overheating issue too… maybe it would be good replacement for epower stuff
January 23rd, 2008 at 10:56 am
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January 23rd, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Thanks a lot Alex for this great tutorial.
I completed the instructions a week ago and got everything working but the sound (my computer just chirped at me). today while perusing the comments I figured out that i needed to get the PCI Driver working first. I did that and now the sound works!
January 23rd, 2008 at 8:04 pm
thx! it worked perfect for the acer 5315-051G12Mi.
you helped me a lot.
lakai411
January 23rd, 2008 at 10:09 pm
4315-2097 is working perfectly…no fan problems…had to search for a few different drivers, but they were not too hard to find. Thank you so much for this tutorial….cheers.
January 24th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Hey man, you wrote up a brilliant tutorial, but i would like to ask something. Can I integrate all those drivers to windows cd? If so, how i could do that? Please answer there or i would prefer more to my email (you prolly see it). Cheers
January 25th, 2008 at 11:56 am
Can someone please upload the drivers for the Acer Aspire 4315, because they seem to be not longer available from the Acer support site
January 25th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Acer Technical (non)support
Here are the emails I received (and sent) to and from Acer when I tried to get support from them.
I’ve edited it, taking out emails etc. and arranging it into chronological order.
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1st message——–\|/
Customer (Don********) - 01/15/2008 11:38 AM
can’t get wifi to work.
Currently installed wifi driver is version 5.3.0.45
I purchased this machine as a replacement for my old laptop that died. I upgraded the hdd to 233 gb , ported over the data and os (xp home sp2) from my old hdd and loaded the 5315 drivers. The system recognizes the 5700eg and says it’s working ok. When I try to connect to a network, it takes a *long* time, and then eventually connects. However, a status check reveals that it isn’t receiving any data, even though it is sending it.
I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers for the 5700eg, as well as the drivers for the ethernet port (installed version 10.62.0.0). Bios is v 1.19.
Help!
Thanks,
Don ***********
*********@**********
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end 1st message
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Ok, pretty straightforward request, right?
Here’s their response
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2nd message —\|/
Response (Online Agent-12) - 01/18/2008 04:42 PM
Dear Don Lane,
Thank you for contacting Acer America. We apologize for the delay in responding to your inquiry. To inquire about replacement recovery discs, please contact Acer Technical Support at 1-800-816-2237 Mon-Fri 7am-9pm CST and Sat-Sun 8am-5pm CST excluding holidays. Currently we are experiencing high call volume, so please expect your hold time to be longer than normal. If you are past the 90-day software warranty, you may purchase these online at http://www.acerpanam.com/us and click the link for eRecovery CD Purchase.
Respectfully,
Acer America
Online Support
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end 2nd message
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wtf does a vista driver cd have to do with this????????
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3rd message —-\|/
Customer (Don *******) - 01/18/2008 06:55 PM
did anyone actually *read* the question I had?
please re-read it and try to actually answer it.
also, the system won’t play dvd’s — it recognizes the drive only as a cd-rom, not dvd.
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end 3rd message
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ok, so we’ve now asked again.
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4th message —\|/
Response (Online Agent-12) - 01/21/2008 07:50 AM
Dear Don ************,
I understand you have installed a larger hdd in the computer, which is fine, but you have removed Windows Vista, and installed Windows XP. Unfortunately Acer does not support downgrading of the Operating System. You are more than welcome to get the recovery discs, install the operating system as it shipped from the factory, and look in device manager to get the correct driver list for your computer. At that time, you can install Windows XP, you can visit our website at http://www.acerpanam.com , and look to see if we have drivers available for that computer and Windows XP. Acer is only going to support the computer as it ships from the factory. I apologize for the miscommunication, I hope this clarifies.
Regards,
Acer America
Online Technical Support
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end 4th message
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“…and look to see if we have drivers available..”
Don’t they know what drivers they have available????
So, there you have it as it was given to me.
One would certainly think that given the number of people who don’t want to run an os that is Very Idiotic, Slow, and Tremendously Annoying, that they could at least put up a (working and current) driver set for xp. How hard is that?
I ended up reinstalling the original drive with the bloatware, I mean vista on it temporarily until I can get the wifi working on xp.
Given what acer is up to, fortunately the user community seems to be coming up with solutions on their own.
Keep up the good work all!!!
January 25th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
i bought such a piece of work and it really makes me swear everytime i use it. vista is just a pain in the arse. i could try installing xp pro but the problem is i want to keep that hidden partition untouched. just in case i need it later. i understand that not everyone here managed to make it work perfectly and there were problems of different kind. is there a possibility that i inslall win xp pro and keep that partition where it is? if i paid for that vista which they included in the retail price i’d like to keep it for later when(maybe!!!)MS releases at least SP2 or 3. thank you for this tutorial. your work should be paid somehow. you rock!
January 26th, 2008 at 6:22 am
sly - I have left the existing partitions in tact and installed XP on the C:\ partition (after deleting and re-formatting it during the XP installation). It works just the same. Everything except for the “Standby” issue works on mine. Always switch off after work and mostly use on A/C anyway so it doesn’t matter. Even the “crazy” fan slowed down a bit with XP and is less annoying. Hope this helps.
January 26th, 2008 at 8:10 am
thank you pet2000. i will try an install of the xp pro because i can’t stand waiting for minutes so that a task should be accomplished. i am a teacher, i work with multiple docs and pdfs and its really annoying that 1g of ram cannot do the basic stuff. ok, that’s it. i’m sure there will be a solution for the “stand by” issue in the future. good luck to all of you, guys!
January 27th, 2008 at 1:56 am
has anyone checked the US ACER web site today???
it looks to me like they have added a few more XP drivers…. too bad most are older versions than ALEX has provided us here. Also there is a
new BIOS Flash Ver 1.25 I’ll post results of the new bios in about an hour
http://www.acerpanam.com/flex/acerdrivers/bin/drivers.html?CFID=6843913&CFTOKEN=10408554
January 27th, 2008 at 2:09 am
Acer must be full of idots, the new bios is listed as 1.25, file name is “ICL5125.exe” but i’ll be damned if it isn’t the same exact file on the European site listed as 1.21… it even says it’s updating to ver 1.21 in the flash GUI…
LOL,
thank god for this site and the people here who know what they are doing, Acer sure doesn’t have a clue.
January 27th, 2008 at 6:00 am
Need acer arcade for my Aspire 5543NWXMi and other driver… Please help me….
January 27th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
could you help me i need driver for my notebook acer aspire 4315 XP coz now i just have Vista but i like to use xp in my notebook,if you have please replay my message and send me email ok……best regard…dwan
January 27th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
thanx alot!!!! it is great description!!! i tryed once to make it myself for one of HP´s. it was all night searching and gethering…
great job!
thanx alot!
January 28th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Just wanted to say thank you thank you THANK YOU for this tutorial as we now have a working XP laptop instead of one that had 80% resources used by Vista and all the bundled crap like Norton. I don’t know why Acer thinks bundling Vista onto a low-spec laptop such as this is a good idea. We had to reboot Vista 3 times before we could even use it as Vista and the bundled software kept asking set-up questions, and then my wife was only playing Solitaire and it was lagging! We now have a lag-free XP laptop. Again, thank you!
January 28th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Hi Folks,
Very interesting read here. Has anyone found specific XP drivers or website links for the Acer AS5520-5912 (with an AMD CPU)? If so, could you kindly post the link here?
- Jenna
January 28th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
Additionally, would you know if one has to slipstream AMD drivers, or only Intel ones?
Thanks again for the assistance, - Jenna
January 28th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
DON - did you install the XP patch to support WPAv2? Without you cannot use a “working” card to connect to a secure network. Look for an earlier post for the link!
January 28th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Tippy - I was attempting to connect to an open network, but I did install the patch, to no avail.
Thanks,
Don
January 29th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
Thank YOU “Mr. Copperfield”. It DOES work perfectly. Thank you so so so much….^_^
January 30th, 2008 at 4:21 am
All done just perfect.
You’ve reanimated my laptop.
Even NFS Underground works fine now
January 30th, 2008 at 5:08 am
NEW REALTEK High Definition Audio Codecs
this link is for driver version R1.85
http://www.realtek.com.tw…wnTypeID=3&GetDown=false
the version in the instructions and the driver zip file is R1.81
i’m not sure what changes have been made, but i’ve just installed the 1.85 with no problems… just download and run setup to upgrade from 1.81.. the readme.txt has instructions for fresh install as well.
January 30th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Hello all,
I just wanted to let you know that I built the XP install disk using Nlite and the install went without problems. The only thing I had slight problems with was the modem driver but a quick look through the posts on here quicly solved that. Since then, I have installed Xp Service pack 3 and everything is running fine. Now I have a decent and reasonable fast laptop. Thanks to Alex and everyone else. Thank you!!
January 31st, 2008 at 11:14 am
Thanks for this wonderful discussion . I have an Acer 5720Z laptop .
Will the above XP installaton work for this series as well ?
How can I install Windows 2000 on the laptop ?
Please advise .
February 1st, 2008 at 8:32 am
May i translate your article in Romanian on my site, obvoius stating is a translation and adaptation from your article with link to it ??
Regards
February 1st, 2008 at 8:58 am
I have aspire 5610z with vista home prem. I downgraded it into xp sp2, evrything works fine, I download all the drivers from acer.panam website, but my wireless not working, theres atheros wifi but still not working, is there anything else I can do to make my wifi works, thanks so much I really appreciatte it, I really need your help guys!!
February 1st, 2008 at 9:09 am
Great website! I have an Acer 5520-5334 and found some of the same drivers worked for me. I’m added a link to this blog from my blog (http://randombitsbytes.blogspot.com/) and am compiling a list of drivers specifically for my laptop on my blog, as well as instructions.
February 1st, 2008 at 6:01 pm
I have it working but lost 30GB of HHD partition D is gone.
C only shows 35GB, I had a 80GB HDD. XP only took 4gigs of space.
Can anyone tell me how to get back my lost hard drive space.
I did what it said about deleting all partitions except for the C and installed XP on the C drive.
February 1st, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Never mind the above.
I figured out what “I” did wrong.
When I deleted the partitions and put XP on the C drive, I did not create a new partition. I missed that step.
I am now creating the C drive.
February 2nd, 2008 at 7:35 am
GOOD NEWS!!!!
acer solved the overheating problem with new bios v1.25.
I have not tried myself yet but many people tried and comfirmed that it solves the problem
ftp://ftp.work.acer-euro.com/notebook/aspire_5315/vista/Bios/v1.25.zip
February 2nd, 2008 at 7:42 am
[Fixed History]
BIOS:
1). Update new solution for Penryn CPU.(Processor May Unexpectedly Assert False THERMTRIP# After Receiving a Warm Reset)
PS. THERMTRIP# :Pin name of the Thermal Trip digital output on Intel Pentium processors. The pin is asserted at a nominal die temperature of 135 degrees-C.
so it was really a bug which was sending a false alarm causing to turn the device off.
February 2nd, 2008 at 9:47 am
PLS. I am so desperate!!! I NEED HELP!! my acer aspire 5610z still not working I did try to install atheros all version but nothing happened! is there anyway I that I would know how to install the right driver for acer aspire 5610z? as in step by step how to install, I am poor knowledge of the installation!! THANKS IN ADVANCE TO ALL OF YOU!!
February 2nd, 2008 at 11:33 am
serda - I hope your right. My 5315 got really hot after sleep, indicating a real overheating and not a false alarm, which the update comment suggests. I will try BIOS v1.25 and report back whether the fan comes back on after sleep.
February 2nd, 2008 at 11:42 am
Ron - download and install everest v4 from here: http://www.download.com/Everest-Ultimate-Edition/3000-2086_4-10499291.html?tag=lst-1
Run the program and find out which components you have (inclusive WLan adapter). You can normally search from within everest for the correct driver of all components. Wright down the info because your everest will only work for 30 days (unless you purchase it of course).
February 2nd, 2008 at 11:52 am
I just wanted to let people who read the install instructions know that you don’t have to buy XP Pro that the above install works with a cheap version of XP home service pack 1, as well.
I used “XP home with service pack 1″ to downgrade from Vista.
“Which is actually a upgrade”
February 2nd, 2008 at 1:39 pm
I am a real novice. I have followed the directions and am at the “burn” CD portion with a blank 700MB disk in the slot. When I click on burn, it tells me that the disk is too small: “Media is too small. ISO size: 1922.14MB cannot fit on a CD.” What do I do?
February 3rd, 2008 at 10:12 am
Hi All,
Alex many thanks for taking the time to write this tutorial. Can you advise if this will work for the 5315 - 101G08Mi
Thanks
Gr8-Ideas
February 3rd, 2008 at 11:10 am
Bettie: You’ve obviously done something wrong. My disc comes up around 690MB or 650MB. Check you’ve chosen all the right options, read the instructions very carefully and also make sure you’re using a CD version of the XP installer (obvious!).
February 4th, 2008 at 6:57 am
many thanks, brilliant job!
February 4th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Hello again. I started all over and got the size to burn to the CD straightened out. Thank you for that help, Vertigo. Now I have another problem. I burned the CD with verify checked. It did fine. Everything verified. I went to the Bios setup and followed the directions carefully and double checked. When the computer started, I hit F12 and the boot options came up. Switched that to ATAPI. So I was excited. Windows XP was coming up. It never did ask me about partitions. It did say I had another windows folder–should I delete it (hit L) or Quit. I hit L. Anyway, it started loading from the XP disk and there were error messages. It couldn’t load cmnicfg.xml and a 3 other xml and a whole bunch of xdr files. Needless to say, windows xp didn’t run and now I can’t get past the Windows screen coming up and saying it can’t run, not even if I hit F12. I have probably messed this up totally. But I have really tried? Any thoughts? Please?
February 4th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Acer 5315-2681
I got XP instaled with the CD method. (Thanx!) the sata drivers made it work fine. Happy to see vista go.
#1 can i install vista on a more powerfull desktop and use the key from this laptop?
#2 In the epower management util, when it starts it says “this is not an acer” and will not run. any ideas?
February 4th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
I don’t know what I did but XP loaded this time. I have run the direct burn disk at least 4 times (missing drivers) and the original at least that many (couldn’t find a hard drive). This was the last time I was going to try it and it worked! I didn’t do anything differently, honest! So I am taking this as Providential. I’ll deal with the driver downloads tomorrow. Thank you so much. I bought this computer thinking it would run my appraisal program because the website said they had a vista compatible program. I had trouble, though, when it was loaded. The tech said it was a “challenge” to run the program on vista and if I could get xp, get it. I looked all over the web for help and was SO grateful to find your instructions. Thank you for your patience. I hope I can download the drivers without a hitch. (By the way, I did read the blog through before I emailed.)
February 4th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
I have noticed two problems.
1st problem
My xp ACER has a start up problem.
When I turn the computer on, it will stay on the ACER-boot white screen. This only happens once and a while. If I press the power button again it will either shut down or boot up.
2nd problem is the auto play is missing from the control panel. but….
When I insert a DVD movie the auto run opens up.
If I click on the “always do” and select take no action, the computer wont remember.
If anyone has any idea as to why these two faults exist please help.
I did use XP home basic with SP1 but updated too SP2 and all other updates about 170 to be exact.
February 4th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
nother new realtek HD AUDIO driver … now at R1.86 enjoy!
ahttp://www.majorgeeks.com/Realtek_High_Definition_Audio_for_2KXP03_d4902.html
February 5th, 2008 at 4:00 am
well, well, bios 1.25 solves the overheating problem only partially; after moving out of stand-by mode when the cpu temperature reaches 60 degrees it starts the fan and cooling BUT it NEVER stops the fan untill next restart (hibernation works instead of restart too). Does anybody have the same experience with latest bios?
February 5th, 2008 at 8:20 am
in device manager I have a yellow exclamation mark at “audio device on HD audio bus”, and it is written that “the drivers for this device are not installed”. It does not react when I click on “update” or “reinstall” the driver, and when trying to uninstall it gives me “Failed to uninstall the device. The device may be needed to boot up the computer”.
Everything else works fine, all the drivers mentioned in the article are installed, including the wireless. I don’t have any clue what else to try…
When trying to run the Realtec WDM driver setup seems that everything is fine at the beginning of the installation process, but at the very end, when the progress bar is almost done it gives an error message “Install Realtec HD audio driver failure”. I downloaded once again the driver, but it gives me the same error
February 5th, 2008 at 9:17 am
Hi Karts, can you find a yellow exclamation mark at one of “PCI devices” (probably at System devices -> PCI bus), if so, try to “update” it, then the system installs audio drivers automatically.
February 5th, 2008 at 10:50 am
with the new updated bios cpu temperature reaches up to 51 C. then fan runs temp turns back to 47-48 C.
it had never reached up to 60.
February 5th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
I posted some time ago that i wasn’t satisfied by vista. I also read the whole blog a few times so that I understand better the problems people encountered. Being fed up with vista i decided to install win XP pro sp2 on my acer 5315-051g12mi. I was afraid it wouldn’t work but to my surprise it worked. The only problem that appeared was that of the sound but I searched for a new driver on http://www.majorgeeks.com/Realtek_High_Definition_Audio_for_2KXP03_d4902.html
and I ‘updated’ the PCI bus that appeared with a yellow exclamation mark in the System devices. That was all. And because there was this issue about the ’standby’ and ‘hibernate’ states after which the fan wouldn’t start I installed Notebook Hardware Control 2.0 from here http://www.pbus-167.com/ Again, to my surprise, after restarting from standby or hibernate the fan started to work, too.
The only thing is that now i have both Notebook Hardware Control 2.0 and Acer ePower Management installed and I don’t know if there will be any software conflicts. I should say that I left the BIOS there as it is (v 1.19). Could there be any conflicts in there?
If not i might just be lucky and I wish you the same.
February 5th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Thanks for the blog. It worked fine this time. HOWEVER……. I install all the drivers ….. up to the modem. No sound so far (even though realtek audio driver is first one to be installed) then I install the Modem driver and that gives me sound…… BUT it makes the laptop hang on the “windows is shutting down” screen when I reboot or shut the laptop down.
HELP!!!
Don’t know how to fix it. I installed xp on HDD to IDE settings and I had the same shutting down problems. Thought your blog was the fix. Which it seems to be…… up untill the modem driver.
It doesnt close fully. Frustrating as hell.
February 5th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Microsoft will be releasing the Windows XP Service Pack 3 in the first half of 2008 which means that users have to wait several months before they can install the new Windows XP Service Pack on their computer. As with most other Microsoft releases that are not yet ready for the prime time the Service Pack 3 can also be downloaded early.
I just installed the Windows XP service pack 3 candidate pre release update.
All I can say is it went perfect.
February 6th, 2008 at 10:31 am
Wireless Working!
I *finally* got the wifi to work on my 5315, so I thought I’d let the community know what happened.
I’m running xp home sp2. This was a version that came with my old HP laptop which died. I cloned the old ide drive onto a bigger sata drive, and got ms to reactivate the software. The first time, I didn’t have any problem getting them to reactivate it.
I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers multiple times in different sequences, with no success. I also tried different versions of the drivers, also with no luck.
After working on the wifi, I tried editing some registry entries. I messed something up, and my registry backup wouldn’t load, so I re-cloned the drive. When I tried to reactivate xp, ms wouldn’t do it, saying “your license doesn’t cover that”. Not that my license was invalid or anything, %$#!!!!!!!! Got me *really* mad. Not wanting to give up, I tried calling ms again, and this time they did it.
After getting that done, I carefully reloaded the drivers from the tutorial in the order suggested, and again, no wifi.
I started digging around in the device manager, which insisted that the wifi was working ok. Becoming desperate, I started looking at all of the system devices. Aha! Device manager showed there was an i/o conflict between pci express port 4 (which is the wifi) and motherboard resources. Device manager *didn’t* have either of these devices flagged. If I hadn’t gone in and searched, I never would have found it.
I played around with it for a while, but couldn’t get xp to let me change anything.
A friend suggested that I get a usb wifi and use that as a temporary workaround until I could come up with a solution to use the internal wifi.
Ok, good idea. I bought a Belkin usb wireless G stick, and installed it. I had to mess around with it a little bit to get it to work, but then it functioned flawlessly.
The next morning, I fired up my computer, and surprise, my internal wifi was working. Wtf? I dug around in device manager again, but it still showed the i/o conflict; nevertheless, the internal wifi was working.
I looked at the raw ethernet traffic using ethereal (free; available at ethereal.com), and saw an extra adapter listed that hadn’t been there before. It was now showing “MS Tunnel Interface Driver” listed as an ethernet device. This driver wasn’t on the Belkin driver cd anywhere, so I’m guessing that it must have downloaded from the internet as part of the install process.
I couldn’t find anything at all on the ms website (or anywhere else) about the driver, or at least not under that name, or anything close to it. My guess is that this driver is somehow bypassing some part of the previously installed drivers, and that’s making it work. Comments from anybody who knows anything about this would be welcome.
I also copied the Acer Arcade software off of the original vista drive, and got it to install with no problem. The Synaptics touchpad software from the vista drive also installed with no problem, so now I actually have everything on this computer functional. Yay!
I’d also like to thank our webmaster and all who’ve contributed to this site for their help.
February 6th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Good call SLY!
I installed Notebook Hardware Control 2.0 and it seems to work the fan after wake-up.
Plus the advantage of seeing the info in the task bar, even the HHD temp is awesome.
Right now I am putting heavy loads on the laptop and every thing seems to be fine after wake up. Temp is between 42* and 51* varying depending upon at instant moment load. the fan starts up and stops regularly too.
February 6th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Kevin, I noticed that after sleep, my fan will either: come on and stay on, or never come on. I have bios v1.18. Did you upgrade to v1.25?
February 6th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Thank-you!!!!!!!! It works great, just have to find out why my modem will not respond.
Says that the port that it uses is already in use.
Any help would be great as it is how we have to connect to the net on it.
February 6th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Hello, I have upgraded to bios 1.25 and it still does the same thing you mentioned, Travis - fan either comes on and stays on or never comes on… so this looks 1.25 does not solve the overheating issue - at least on some models
February 6th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Procedures? OK!!
Drivers? OK!!
Installation? OK!!
Well, how is this guy?
…..
OK!
Thanks a lot
That’s how it should be done to have a nice and a little powerful a nice price!! (please no more vista…)
February 6th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
and that didn’t work on my laptop
if you want drivers for ac aspire 5315 try: http://www.acerpanam.com/synapse/forms/acerdrivers.cfm
and download list in pdf file with links to latest drivers ;]
greetings
February 6th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
Travis yes I did the BIO 1.25 upgrade. After the Notebook Hardware Control 2.0 install that the 2.0 worked so well,I removed the acer empowering and epower.
February 7th, 2008 at 1:17 am
As soon as Windows starts to load, I get a blue screen of death, and the system instantly resets before I can even read the text.
Thank heaven I have a Linux partition…
February 7th, 2008 at 1:18 am
Weird. It cut off my first sentence.
That should have started with: “The Acer BIOS update broke my Windoes XP Pro SP2!”
February 7th, 2008 at 3:06 am
thank you very much for all the info, I’m going to try this on my uncle’s laptop when I get home, he has suffered enough with vista. (and I am the one who always gets to fix the shit he has with his laptop…) Many thanks from Belgium!
February 7th, 2008 at 6:05 am
just completed this procedure upgrading my buddy’s 5315 from vista to xp…
thanks a bunch for all the great info and the drivers, everything is working like a champ!
mark
February 7th, 2008 at 8:10 am
Daeksword, try downloading the ver 1.25, and use a bootdisk ((or even a wIN98 setup cd if you have to)) to get to a dos prompt then follow the instructions to flash the BIOS via DOS.
I had a Compaq laptop that recently did the same thing, snice it was my only wireless capable PC at the time ((thanks to my neighbors for free bandwith e.g..)) I was forced to Load Win98 to download the new flash, then after flashing the bios my bluescreen during WINXP PRO install/boot went away.
as best i can recall i was getting a BSOD error about ” IRQ not less than or equal to ??” it’s been a few months but there is a thread about it at this site
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread96504.html
good luck
February 7th, 2008 at 11:02 am
speedfan is another program for running the fan.
I now have
Notebook hardware 2.0
Empowering
speedfan
all running
I put the computer to sleep and took a shower.
When I got out of the shower, I woke the computer up and started a AVG scan, Internet explorer, and Microsoft 2007 mail witch usually puts a heavy load on the computer. “When I have all this running”
The computer is maintaining 40* Between 39*c and 43C*
later on today I will be uploading a full DVD into the computer and will re- post results.
Of course I will put the computer to sleep for the day and wake it up and run some DVD uploads. I can’t think of anything else that will put a load on the computer.
Aside from editing image files.
So far so good.
My specs
ACER 3515-2153
Intel celeron M 1.7
Bio 1.25
XP Home W/Service Pack 3
2gig ddr2 RAM
80GB
Sony DVD RW burner
February 8th, 2008 at 11:04 am
Tanks! It works! I’ve tried and everything just did right
February 8th, 2008 at 11:39 am
Thank you for all of these information!!! My “acer” now work very well!!!
February 8th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Using these instructions and the nLite mentod I successfully installed XP on my Acer Aspire 5720 Z notebook yesterday. The only glitch I faced was while pressing F12 it still booted from Vista despite my selecting the DVD device . Anyways I changed the boot sequence in BIOS and it worked fine.
I used three sets of drivers - one from ACER PANAM website , another from the App Backup DVD created earlier and the third from this website .Did face the problems with drivers esp sound - till I practiced what someone has mentioned in this blog for the same in PCI devices . Also got the graphics card driven and now no mmore yellow marks . Strangely the wi fi drivers from Acer s website did not work , but the ones from this blog did .
Another very good tutorial I found helpful and a must read is http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-UPGRADE-from-Vista-to-Windows-XP-on-an-Acer/
I wonder if the same process will hold good for Compaq laptops as they say that Compaq / HP do not support backward compatibility much .has anyone tried ??
February 8th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Great article, thanks!
It helps a lot
February 8th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
how can I find out what exact model I have? cause all the drivers except my audio drivers are working.
February 9th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Thanks so much.you have made my lappy so much better with this tut
February 9th, 2008 at 11:08 am
WOW guys, very good and informative site
i have couple of questions, and i’ll be pleased if someone answers it.
I want to buy Acer Aspire 5315-052G16Mi
http://nevada.com.mk/pd-469635864.htm?categoryId=227
And i want to install XPSP2. I’ve read all posts and i just want to know.. Does all the drivers for xp works fine on the particular model, and will it boot directly from xpsp2 cd without updating the bios, ofcourse i’ll install the drivers for the hdd when i’m prompted to do this
Thanks
February 9th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
I would like to start of by saying TY!, TY!,TY!,TY!,TY! and TY!
I did this and by useing the foxcom drivers for the dial-up modem everything works great! (nicely also provided)
(Even though the drivers gievn here says everythink is working correctly if you try and use it you get the com is already in use.)
If anyone is trying to upgrade their Aspire 5315-2681 follow everything listed except get the Foxcom drivers (nicely also provided) just click the set-up and done!
February 9th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Hello all.
I have my Acer working perfect, no dim screen after wake up from sleep, no over heating even in the MAX CPU setting after wake up. The temp is at 50c steady. I am running only running “Notebook Hardware 2.0″ and Acer empowering.
I removed the Service pack 3 as it loaded very slow at power up.
I do have a question, I was just wondering.
When I remove the bottom panel from my Acer 5315-2153 laptop, there is a rather large empty space. I noticed this empty space when I upgraded the ram too 2, 1gig strips.
Could this be space for a extra HDD?
Thanks much.
February 10th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
tumblehogme, ervin, manuel, robert!
about 5315-050508Mi Sound problem…
…”I used the version that tumblehogme found on the European Acer site (see his comment)”…
Well, i just looked and there is only
Audio_Realtek_268_v6.0.1.5477 vista x34×64
but not
Audio_Realtek_v6.0.1.5443_Vista_XP which you mentioned.
Is there some change on site meanwhile or i mixed-up something?
February 11th, 2008 at 7:21 am
Hi
I have problem in sound card driver(Acer laptop aspire 5315
thanks
Yassir
February 11th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
apparently I have the 5315-050508Mi model, any sound solutions yet?
February 11th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Seshy,
Yes, read earlier posts, but seems the driver is not there…
February 12th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
yeah that’s odd, hope someone finds a solution soon, cause my girlfriend will kill me if it doesn’t have any sound in the plane x-x
February 12th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
I found the audio driver
Audio Realtek V.6.0.1. 5443 .zip on a ACER FTP Page.
ftp://ftp.work.acer-euro.com/notebook/aspire_4315/vista/Drivers/
the driver is for a 4315 notebook.
I hope this helps.
February 12th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Hello I have a problem… I installed everything as told but cannot connect to my wireless network… says : “Limited Or No Connectivity” WTF should I do?
February 12th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Sometimes I get that message on all my computers.
When this happens I have to reboot my router.
All I do is unplug it and plug it back in. This resets the router and the computers go online.
February 12th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
PS this only happens once every few months.
February 12th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
Hi guys, i just installed Windows XP on my Aspire 5315-2384, only the audio driver from this tutorial wont work. Where i can find the proper one? Thanks
February 13th, 2008 at 12:37 am
Help would be very nice.
Question
I am looking threw my “add/remove programs’ I set it to show by size.
I noticed the
ATHEROS for ACER DRIVER 53045_FOXCONN INSTALLATION PROGRAM shows 0.00MB.
Why is there no data or MB, does this mean it can removed.
I have been removing all kinds of garbage that I do not need, so I am wondering about this.
So far I have 61.8 GB free space. from a 74.5GB HHD
Always looking for more space.
February 13th, 2008 at 4:05 am
Thank u man!!! It’s working 100% . modem device on high definition audio bus now is Agere Systems HDA Modem. Thank u
February 13th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Please if anyone have the Aspire 5315-2384 audio driver please tell me, i already tried everything i found.
February 13th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
cho,
look at my earlier post. i explained what to do when this happens. just update the PCI bus . tell us if it worked. good luck.
February 13th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
AYEE, worked. :]
Thank you so much.
February 14th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
Just to let people know. Even though no one wants to help me out!!
What I will not, fill ya in on, is how to fix the over heating problem without using NHC or speedfan.
Good luck to you all.
I have found that all the empowering utilities for Acer 5110 XP version will work on the 5315 XP.
Gridvista
eData
ePerformance
ePower
ePresentation
eSettings
I did use the links above for the empowering framework and ePower.
The rest of the eUtility’s, I got from the Acer 5110 site.
The green E-button even works.
The ePerformance recognizes the system info.
I have been using them now for a few days with no problem.
Link to the Acer 5110
http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/notebook/as_5110.html
February 15th, 2008 at 12:15 am
Kevin Burns - the extra space is for a graphics card, but the slot is not present. As I understand it, the slot is present on higher-end notebooks in the Gemstone series. it is not MXM compatible, as far as I know. feel free to fill the space with whatever you like, hopefully keeping in mind heat and electrical isolation of course. putting a HDD in there might be a slightly ambitious project. maybe a good place to stick a USB bluetooth dongle, etc.
February 15th, 2008 at 2:54 am
Tnx sooo muuch!!!
after 2 days of googling I successfully instaled win xp pro on my aspire 5315!
everything is working properly!!!! just follow the instruction on this site!!
greeting from slovenia! xD
February 15th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Thanks a lot for the floppydisk and the needed drivers. My female colleague will be very grateful.
greetz Arno
February 15th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
Hey real thanksfor this turtorial…. it toke me 9 houres to get all working couse of drivers and my seve( could not find device manager
silly me)
but now with this tutor… IM UP AND GOING …. BYE BYE (ASTALA) VISTA….
great thanks… and good luck in next tutors…
February 15th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Thankyou! Awesome tutorial Mr Wells.
A word of warning for XPsp3 users!
I tried to get too fancy and added sp3 to my old oem sp1 and slipstream drivers disk.
All went good except audio, it would not let me load the uaa HD driver. A window kept poping up saying my service pack was higher and so I didn’t need it, which of course I did. Therefore I was unable to open the file. Fortunately after much hunting, the solution to this problem was to extract the kb888111xpsp2 hotfix file using winrar instead of windows explorer. Thread here:
http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2575850&SiteID=17
My previously useless joke of a machine (Acer 4310) is now flying - YEEEHAAAAR!!!
February 16th, 2008 at 3:47 am
Man, you saved my night… I could install the Acer nb in 4 hours (15 min google, then 3:45 OS and driver and app install).
Thank you, thank you and again: thank you.
February 18th, 2008 at 2:59 am
Hi there,
first, I’d like to thank everyone who posted here. The wi-fi driver was very helpful. Thanks a lot.
I’m having the same fan issue that’s been reported here with my notebook acer aspire 5315. Every time I return from sleep mode, the fan no longer works and my notebook shuts down.
The solution I found is to install a program called “everest ultimate edition”. It monitores the temperature in the notebook and restarts the fan after I return from sleep mode. So, I got no overheating so far.
See ya
February 18th, 2008 at 5:14 am
Thank you for existing. Viorel Romania
February 18th, 2008 at 7:58 am
My report for 5315 050508Mi (europian model):
I made test IDE-mode install with SP2 and everything worked from scratch, no yellow exclamation icons. Now proceeding to N-lite driver integration.
I used this sound driver:
sound: WDM R1.71 (ver. 5443). Came with the Linux CD
Modem driver supplied here did not work so i used 2.2.0.0 Agere (.exe install).
I can upload drivers to put here on site if needed.
cooling issue: disabled standby in control panel / power management; hybernation ok.
There are some small isues:
Device manager: express PCI ports 3 and 4 have memory resource conflicts with motherboard; don’t know what that means, hope the Express card slot will work because i’ll need it. There are also 3 monitor icons all the same except different “Device ID”. All works fine for now.
Modem sound (loud) canot be turned off in modem properties, only thru master volume.
Still need S-video->RCA cable to try TV-out, any expiriences to share? do we need some driver for it?
And if someone have some hack to make decent Line input it would be perfect!
February 18th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
Hi Alex,
Just installed XP Pro on my Acer 5315-2256 bios v1.21,120gb hdd,1gb ram
using your instructions to the letter. It went so well I found it hard to believe.
everything worked first time up, no problem with sound,modems,wireless,
lan, no overheating. I am very impressed, keep up the good work.
Gerry
PS: bought it at Staples for $469. cnd, including free HP all in one printer
February 18th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
I’ve tried to search through this forum to answer the question I have but it seems as if everyone has a slightly different problem than me. I installed XP SP2 on my Aspire 5315-2153 following this forum’s guide. Everything is working fine except the audio. I downloaded the realtek HD audio driver that was specified in the instructions multiple times even starting the XP install process from scratch. I extracted all files from the folder and tried pointing the driver update procedure to this file; still nothing. Last but not least I tried downloading the XP audio driver that Acer provides on their internet site and still had no luck. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
February 18th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Reid - did you load the drivers in the order specified? XP is sometimes cranky about what gets loaded first.
February 19th, 2008 at 3:03 am
Thank you so much for the drivers! I coudn’t find them anywhere and you got all drivers ready for download.
February 19th, 2008 at 6:05 am
Does this method work on the 7520G model too?? link http://www.mimovrste.com/artikel/2750078433/prenosnik-acer-aspire-7520g-502g32mi-lxakl0×108
February 19th, 2008 at 7:34 am
yes I made sure to load them in the correct order but I will double check and reload them and post back
February 19th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Reid - If that doesn’t work, you might try the driver from the vista recovery partition. There are both xp and vista drivers there. You can also get Acer Arcade from there, and the touchpad driver.
February 19th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Hi, I have an acer extensa 4420. I found that the older versions of Epowermanage actually allow you to turn the fan on and leave it on. Otherwise, my problem (and i know you guys don’t have this problem) is that the fan comes on every 30 seconds! Very annoying.
Does anybody know why we can’t change fan speeds and just set these things ourself with Speedfan or NHC?
February 19th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Don - I uninstalled XP and started from scratch again making sure to install the drivers in the correct order and I still do not have sound. Any other ideas? By the way thanks for taking the time to help. Great forum.
February 20th, 2008 at 10:18 am
Reid ,
Pls check in the PCI devices for any yellows - then try updating that device driver to the extracted files one after the other . I faced a similar problem and this worked - I kept on re installing the drivers w/o realizing that down below in device manager there was a yellow PCI device .
February 20th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
reid,
You might want to look here:
http://catalog.plazaua.com/computer-technics-periphery/notebook/acer/acer-aspire-5315-052g16mi-lx-alc0c-008/
to find what codec your machine uses. Then find and download / install again.
http://download.acasa.ro/drivere/diverse i also found some drivers here…
February 21st, 2008 at 6:25 am
Thank you very much for your good work and posting. Only one question, I missing the Acer Crytaleye webcam driver. My model is aspire5315. could you help me with that one???
Thanks
February 21st, 2008 at 7:49 am
The Acer Panam site from earlier posts should have webcam drivers
February 21st, 2008 at 7:51 am
Btw, i can’t get S-video / TV-out to work…
February 21st, 2008 at 8:03 am
Walker - Thanks for the help. IT WORKED!!! Thank you too Bob.
February 21st, 2008 at 10:42 am
es una estupidez que los fabricantes se unan a microsoft para “obligar” a los usuarios a cambiar a su windows vista el cual es una basura.
nos obligan a buscar otras alternativas…
y luego no quieren que uno cambie a software libre…
salu2
MrPZS
February 21st, 2008 at 6:50 pm
For all the people that have asked if the acer restore disks made from the hidden factory partition will completely restore thier laptop to brand-new condition, the answer is “No”. Using Acer’s utility to create recovery disks for my 5315 and a 5570z resulted in disks that couldn’t complete installation of the Acer Launch and the Acer Tour software, causing Tech support to tell me to turn off those services in msconfig. Now I have the fan problem too. Acer’s site says that once the recovery disks are used to reinstall vista, the recovery partition is not usable again. Meaning I can not use it to reload windows, and I cannot remove it either! Thanks Acer for this, and thanks for offering to sell me the recovery disks for $10 a set. Oh, and I need 2 sets? This whole shitstorm is killing me.
February 21st, 2008 at 7:00 pm
I actually was talked into buying disks for my 5570z, convinced that the copys were corrupted. Tech support sent the wrong ones! Perhaps when the replacements come, they will completely restore my laptop to a factory-fresh condition. I’m not holding my breath. I actually think that they’ll be an exact copy of what I made from the factory partition. Wish me luck. I don’t care now for xp on my laptop. I just want a laptop that works without going into a heat induced stupor. Thanks for letting me rant.
February 21st, 2008 at 7:17 pm
could anyone link me to the R1.71 ver. 5443 drivers?
February 21st, 2008 at 7:17 pm
OVERHEATING…
hi,
firts: thanx Alex for the tutorial, I run XP and it works perfercly well BUT
even though I installed the Acer Empowering Technology and Acer ePower Management my Apire still overheats and turns-off sooner or later after I wake it up from sleep..
I would be thankfull for any advice,
thanx a lot in advance..
February 22nd, 2008 at 5:08 am
Thanks Alex for your tutorial. I bought an Acer As 5315, I followed all your instructions and it works perfectly. I used a Nlite disc with only Windows XP, without service pack, then I installed SP2 and all is correct. I have installed too some of the Acer empowering apps, some of them doesn´t work, but the olders is working perfectly. Thanks!!!
February 22nd, 2008 at 5:40 am
Hello,
I was wondering if the above 2 procedures and the drivers pack applies for Acer Aspire 6315-052G12MI notebook, as well ?
Xavier
February 22nd, 2008 at 6:48 am
Well, it’s hard to admit, but look like i also rush to ask before read . Back up to Geezer-s S-video issue and Alex’s answer to connect S-Video BEFORE boot, i tried and it works!! All completed!
Now this cute is ready…
Thans again!
February 22nd, 2008 at 7:34 am
i had to wipe the drive on my acer and now in trying to install windows it can find the drive because its not there. any way to install adriver other than physically removing it and putting in another one
February 22nd, 2008 at 8:52 am
Ok, don’t have to reboot, just to quit and restart the Intel graphic application, but before you must have S-video properly connected to get TV-options.
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:19 am
As an add on and if not already mentioned wrt connecting s video out after connecting and restarting / relogging ensure that you have gone to vgs settings - right click on desktop - properties - advanced - select graphic card tab and click on TV monitor after setting resoultion to 800*600 .Default hot keys are ctrl+alt+f2 , ctrl+alt+f3 (notebook / TV )
February 22nd, 2008 at 3:52 pm
There is also easy way Fn+F5
February 23rd, 2008 at 4:00 am
I re-did an Acer Aspire 5720-4126 (5720z) from vista to XP SP2/MCE and
the video and wireless were inoperable using the drivers from the disc
made from the factory.
The Atheros driver above works perfectly in this machine, and for the
video I found one that worked before I found this site, so I didn’t test the
one posted here.
The one I found is at:
http://www.acerpanam.com…0.4847win2k_xp.zip
It set up flawlessly and worked instantly.
If anyone else is doing this I highly recommend keeping vista long enough
to use the disc maker to make the 3 DVDs for recovery of OS, apps and
drivers before erasing the HDD and installing XP.
Now that vista is gone this is a nice little machine !
February 23rd, 2008 at 4:06 am
I wonder how can we activate or use the webcam ~ what application to use - I have recorded a clip and also clicked pic , but wanted to do a CCTV kind of thing .
February 23rd, 2008 at 3:08 pm
hi, i read all the posts and tried everything i could, i’ve installed xp s3, and everything works but the sound. i’ve got the pci problem some of you seem to have or to have had, yet when i “update” it, no improvement, there is no newer version of the driver available in the folder “all” or when i ask windows to find it automatically. If someone has had the same problem and finally solved it, please help me !!
February 23rd, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Just wanted to say thanks, couldn’t have done it with out your artice. I bought my wife a 5315 but VISTA was just an endless source of grief. Looking good now.
Regards,
Bob
February 23rd, 2008 at 9:08 pm
i found that if you have a big enough flashdrive (in my case i have a 4 gig) use that as your driver to download windows xp then install it and select a partion to download it to and it will create a partion on your hard drive and it will be there. remove the flashdrive and delete the files on it. you will have to hunt down the drivers but its better than the alternative.
February 25th, 2008 at 5:04 am
Thanks for you time and effort creating this instruction. I just made the boot-cd and can’t wait start installing XP. I tried working with Vista but everything, like Outlook 2007, seems to crash for no reason at all! It also just stopted seeing my virusscanner and Windows Defender….weird.
I myself have the 5315-102G12MI and hope to be just as succesfull as everybody else.
I’m just curious is someone else tried it on the 5315-102G12MI???
February 25th, 2008 at 10:27 am
thanks Bob,
My trouble start when I install the driver.
I have to restart the computer and the nice logo saying Computer is shutting down never go away and the pc get locked. there are 3 kind of drivers for acer crystaleye: Bison, suyin and chicony. I tried all but with one is correct and what to do???
Thanks,
André
February 25th, 2008 at 11:58 am
So I have a 5315-2442 and I used the slipstream method to get XP on it. Thanks very much for the instructions!
Problem I had as one person already reported was that as soon as XP boots it blue screens asking for a disk check. I went into the BIOS and set the HD to IDE mode (not AHCI) and it would boot but I understand that there will be a 10-15% performance degradation running it in IDE emulation.
Anyone know how to fix this issue so XP can run in AHCI enabled mode?
February 25th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Just re-installed XP, now with AHCI drivers. It is so much better than the IDE mode. I recommend that all of you switch to AHCI mode. The CD method explained here is very easy!
Thanks again to all of you!
February 25th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
here’s an update:
IT WORKS!! I love it, all the drivers worked. At first I had no sound, but after installing the modem WinXP saw my soundcard instead of my modem. Well before I knew they where both installed. I finally can start to enjoy my Acer.
Many thanks and greetings from The Netherlands!
Andres.
February 25th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
tanks for info
February 26th, 2008 at 2:48 am
Hi Alex,
Could you be so kind and tell me if the two above Windows installation mentioned methods are also working for an Acer Aspire 6315-052G12MI notebook ?! I really need to know that since I just bought one for my son and would be very appreciative a more or less documented answer in that respect. Thanks, and I am waiting for your answer, please.
Xavier
February 26th, 2008 at 3:47 am
Thank you so much for the Drivers! First I do like to thank everyone who posted here . The Wi-Fi audio Driver Was Very Helpful . Than RAXMAT KAROCHI .
February 26th, 2008 at 7:36 am
ggggg-)) horoshii notebook toka vista-)) xpundel stavitsia na yra s dravami ot odnogo iz v9 asus vot modelky ne pomnu
February 26th, 2008 at 11:30 am
Danilo, I did slipstream the AHCI drivers as explained in the instructions. That’s the only way that WinXP will see the drive at all. But if I have it set to AHCI it blue screens when it tries when it reboots for the first time and goes into Windows mode to setup.
Anyone else have this problem?
February 26th, 2008 at 11:57 am
Thanks for this guide Alex.
I just have two questions:
1: If I some how manage to fuck this installation up, can I then download or borrow a Vista-dvd and install with the Serial on the back of my laptop?
2: How can I see if my Acer is the 5315-2153?
All it says on all the documentation and on the keyboard is “aspire 5315″? Is there more then one version of the “5315″?
thanks again for the guide, vista is out as soon as I get back from Austria.
February 26th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
sebastian,
1.you can always make a new xp cd with the cd method on another computer so that it should work on your lappy. stop thinking about vista any longer. it uses too many resources.
2. i found the entire serial of the version on the box the laptop was packaged in. and also the version of the bios and other stuff.
i hope it helps.
February 26th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Hi! Thank you very much for your very usefull step-by-step instructions!
In Acer 5920 I had a trouble with sound. At least I find answer for it: You must to install drivers for it and then go to Device manager. There will be not definite PCI-DEVICE. So, you must to click on it and just renew driver. (I even didn’t seek any drivers for renew, windows did it by itself without any CDs or helping from my side).
And then the sound apper =).
Hope it will be usefull for somebody!
February 27th, 2008 at 9:41 am
For all you guys with the cpu-fan problems, mine seem to have gone after the BIOS upgrate. I did the upgrade to 1.29. I do keep an eye on it with I8kfanGUI. Before I did the upgrade I called the servicedesk here in Holland but they couldn’t give me a straight answer. They said to load the default in BIOS or reinstall the software(yeah Vista..NO WAY!).
For those who like to know, I have the 5315-102G12MI(European version, Dutch)
February 27th, 2008 at 10:00 am
I just checked the case for my acer.
The exact model was: 5315-052G12Mi.
however, this might not mean that much? I should still be able to use most of the same drivers as for the 5315-2153.
February 27th, 2008 at 10:23 am
the bios upgrade that Andres mentioned:
ftp://ftp.work.acer-euro.com/notebook/aspire_5315/vista/Bios/v1.29.zip
February 28th, 2008 at 11:10 am
-How do you guys make extended monitor configuration? I only see “Clone” option. I deed it only once, it was good, but no mather what resolution etc i cant repeat it now.
Second monitor connected, all in place…
February 28th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Hey guys,
I just wanted to give a “heads-up” and possibly get some insight:
I work at a local, small-buisness, computer shop and I have successfully installed XP over Vista on numerous 5315’s (and many, many other brands of laptops/desktops, heh) of varying sub-versions and almost all of them have been a breeze. I also almost always use the AHCI->IDE trick to get XP to see the HDD and havn’t had any bouncebacks/issues (yet! /crossfingers).
But I just recently ran into a road-block with a 5315-2142:
After installing all of the XP drivers successfully (no splats in the device manager), I come to find out that the notebook will not browse the internet or ping any sites/IP’s when using the LAN (note: the WLAN can browse/ping just fine…).
The drivers that have been installed (and reinstalled, multiple times, multiple different ways) are the broadcom ones labled “Lan_BCM5787_v10.26.0.0_XP”.
Also, I found an interesting “bug”:
When the local area connection (the broadcom LAN connection) is set to automatically get it’s IP address from the router (DHCP), it will -allways- pull “192.168.0.97″….allways….regardless of what router/switch it’s plugged into and regardless of what that router’s settings are.
Example: When I plug this notebook into a router that is set to assign IP addresses in the range of, say 192.168.1.2 to 192.168.1.100, it will STILL pull 192.168.0.97……….
But when set to a static IP address (manually assigned IP), it will connect and browse/ping just fine (if the static IP is in the range allowed by the router).
The only problem with leaving the setting static is that the customer will (more than likely) not be able to change/know the settings to set this to if they ever take the unit somewhere with a router accepting/assigning different IP settings.
I did try using both a winsoc fix and running a full dial-a-fix scan/reset, just to make sure the windows software wasn’t hosing me…easily proven by the fact that it can browse/ping with the wireless but I just wanted to really, really make sure.
Any ideas?
I’ve ran into this problem once before in the last 4 years on an Asus laptop, about a year ago. I ended up sending it back to Asus, and even they couldn’t figure it out. In fact, after sitting on the phone and explaining the situation (and how to reproduce the error) to one of their techs for about an hour, I gave up. The guy kept saying “It work fine here!, must be you network!!!”…….so they sent it back to us with a bios-flash (lol), which didn’t do a thing. We ended up selling it for about half of what we paid, as a “B-stock, no warranty available” unit. :’(
February 28th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Hi,
I purchased an Acer Aspire 5315 model ICL50 for the Middle East market. Now your site has been of great help indeed since I preferred WXP SP2 to Vista and every WXP driver you provided worked except my only problem remains with the WIFI driver. I’ve used both Atheros and Broadcom and so far I just don’t seem to hit any success. The supplied Vista drivers CD also includes a Wifi driver for Intel, is there any chance that I should be looking for an Intel XP wifi driver instead?
Please sir, I need your help.
Many thanks in advance.
Jehad, Beirut, Lebanon.
February 28th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Ostar,
my notebook is an acer aspire 5315-2142. I`ve installed windows xp and I`m using the same driver you`ve mentioned and I’m not having any problem with my LAN internet connection/ping or ip.
February 28th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
hello, i have an acer 5610z. i’ve tried installing windows xp on it, but i’ve repeatedly failed at it. this is my fourth time trying and i thought to myself that it might be time to write you guys in order to get some help.
the last time i tried it, i installed a wrong driver and the computer started freezing at the starting “miscrosoft windows xp” image, so i’m really worried right now that i might mess up my computer (apparently, there IS harm in trying). consequently, i won’t install anything on my machine before i get an “all clear” from you.
ps: this link http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/notebook/as_5610z.html won’t work for me (internet explorer cannot display the webpage), don’t know why. oh, and i’m writing from a different pc, as i can’t surf the web with my gloriously nonfunctional laptop.
oh, and i’m a novice (if you haven’t figured that out yet), so please be gentle.
February 29th, 2008 at 8:12 am
About Extended monitor:
Since it worked and then it wouldn’t, i concluded the only thing could be some BIOS or VGA (inaccessible) BIOS change; so i just restored the defaults in.
And Extended monitor options reappeared!…?
Instantly i remembered Geezer’s S-video problems:
http://soulpass.com/2007/11/10/installing-windows-xp-professional-sp2-on-acer-aspire-5315-2153-laptop/#comment-18327
So, if anyone have similar situation that something works and then it doesn’t, try loading the BIOS defaults.
p.s. This 7-pin S-video connector should have composite video-output too. If it does not works, then pins 1 and 2 are ground and 2,3 are Luminance and Color. To get normal TV picture, take the the signal from Luminance out and put a 470pF capacitor between Luminance and Color.
If someone interested i can explain in detail
February 29th, 2008 at 11:39 am
Cool, thanks Danilo.
I figured as much, as I said, I’ve seen this before.
We’ll probably have to do the same thing with this one.
Again, thanks for the hasty reply!
February 29th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
yes this does work. I own a Laptop Acer 5315-2153. Vista runs decent on it but does not work well for multi tasking or simple gaming. I prefer windows xp on this laptop. just like it mentioned change ur boot sequence boot from ur cd rom and install the windows xp. after your done install those drivers in order. some reason my touchpad menu doesnt show or anything so i have tapping on. no way to turn it off
February 29th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Logitech webcam for notebook delux , I need to unplug and plug again every time I restart acer 5315 . But the web cam is working fine on my desktop . any advice ???Thanks in advance.
regards,Tom
March 1st, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Thanks alot u tha best. I did this on ma new notebook Acer Aspire 5710 and it worked perfectly using the second method.
Cheers, and thanks once more
March 2nd, 2008 at 7:59 am
Hello!
I have bought Acer 5313.
I am prepare for installation WinXP, but I have a qustion: is ePower works properly under WinXP?
And can i backup Vista OEM to DVD for restoring, if something will not work properly?
ok, thanks
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:56 am
@Fiast
Epower works for me. Not everything you have or used to have in Vista will work, but i’ve got Powermanagement and Settings running.
I myself just made the two DVD’s, but I can’t tell you if everything will restore to factory settings. I guess it’s a risk you take, but it’s worth it!
Ciao,
Andres.
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:43 am
Hi there!
I have recently installed an XP SP2 on a ACER 5720z using the drivers you recommended, in IDE HDD mode. The only problem that appears was that on every 1-2 minutes the processor it’s going wacky and stalls for about 5 secs.
Does this happens because I did the installation in the IDE mode?
I will try the CD Burner method for the AHCI !
Where can I get some XP drivers for my Bluetooth? When I try to install the drivers that comes with my laptop it says that it’s for Vista only…
Thanks!
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:57 am
Fiast - I can confirm that if you make the backup DVDs before you start with anything else, you will be able to reinstall everything, including Vista and all trial software to factory setting even after you have used Windows XP or Linux. You do not need to delete the backup partition on your hard disc (probably called F:\) to install Windows XP. All you need to do is to delete and reformat the C:\ partition during XP installation, leave everything else as it is. But remember when you use your backup DVDs to set your laptop to factory settings, you will loose all data on your C:\ partition, so it is better to create a further partition during XP installation (e.g. D:\) where you can copy files and keep them safe when you reset your laptop as the reset will only delete C:\ partition and not D:\ or any additional partition. Hope this answers your question.
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:16 pm
i’m still waiting, guys… please help me out here. it’s been a week now since i’ve tried to install xp on my laptop. and nothing is working right now. so please help.
March 2nd, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Finally I found the wireless driver (BCM94311MC) you need for the acer ASPIRE 5315 - 101G12Mi.
Here is the link: http://www.acerpanam.com/synapse/data/7117/documents/AS3690_TM2490_80211bg_Broadcom_v4.2.2.7.zip
Backup Mirror: http://rapidshare.com/files/96576511/80211bg_Broadcom_v4.2.2.7.zip
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:09 pm
5610z.html europian support site link works for me
March 3rd, 2008 at 6:17 am
noob - have you got a backup copy of your original software which came with your laptop? If yes, I suggest you re-install it and do not attempt to install a different version. You really need some computer knowledge to do that. The instructions here are only for the Acer 5315 and may not work for other models.
March 3rd, 2008 at 4:50 pm
pet2000 - i did do that, eventually. but i find vista annoying (and very, very visually pleasing - i must admit it). it’s hard to keep searching for the RIGHT version of bsplayer (i have’nt found one that doesn’t make my laptop go “yooo, what’ you doing??? you know that using that version is extremely damaging to my self-esteem!!!” and by that i mean that it turns off certain features, such as aero or… other such stuff) and each program i try to install. i won’t even go into games, which is another soft spot for my computer.
so… i’m gonna give it one more try (could this damage my laptop beyond repair? if the answer is yes, i guess i’ll have to learn to live with vista)… i know how to do the “install xp” part, i just don’t know which drivers i need and where could i get them from…
but if you still think that it wouldn’t be wise for me to do it, i guess i’ll drop it. for now, at least
March 5th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
My only problem is e-mail , can receive but not send mail when I am away
from my home ?oe 6. any thoughts ?
5315-2256, XP pro
March 6th, 2008 at 7:16 am
Gerry - sounds like an ISP problem rather than a laptop fault. Some email provider (or ISP’s) don’t allow you to send emails unless you are connected to their service, only receive emails is allowed.
March 6th, 2008 at 7:22 am
noob - I would not like to be responsible if your laptop breaks, so my answer to you is you need to decide for yourself whether you wan to try again. I found when I switch off aero and most of the other fancy but useless additions, Vista would run reasonable fast (as a barebone installation). Installing Windows XP by itself will not break your computer but it may have an impact on your warranty should something go wrong in the process.
March 6th, 2008 at 8:55 am
Noob — What I did was remove the stock hard drive and install another (much larger) drive in it’s place and installed xp to that. I’m keeping the vista drive in case I ever have to send the machine in for warranty service. New drives are cheap and easy to install, requiring only a small phillips screwdriver to open the drive access door, and transfer the mounting frame from the original drive to the new one.
March 6th, 2008 at 10:33 am
I have the Acer 5315 2077 wuth a fresh win XP pro install, I have everything working except sound and I think the cpu fan. I made sure to install all the drivers in the order you specified, yet no good. Any ideas?
March 6th, 2008 at 10:45 am
Now this is probabily off topic. This laptop doesn’t have Line input.
I need to grab some music and mic unput is not bad at all with all mic processing turned off, but it’s just a little “narrow” and little noisy, being a typpical microphone input.
First i ment to by some Express or USB card anyway, but now i like Realtek but have no Line-in.
And i need that line-in desperately, there is bunch of old vinyl / cassete etc, so is there any way to enable it in the Windows/Realtek mixer?
What i know is that it is fisically connected to “Mic” input of Realtek chip, not the “Line” one (dot’t ask me how i know).
Anybody?
March 6th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Bob, here’s some insight on the audio topic…
March 6th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
can someone explain how to install the broadcom driver step by step please? I can’t get it to work D:
March 7th, 2008 at 2:57 am
all praise to ALEX WELLS!! after much searching and misleading links i finally came across this genius of a man…your help was second to none my friend and you saved many hours of following dodgy download torrents which end up leading around in circles..YOU REALLY KNOW YOUR STUFF!!!..tried the recommended install of the drivers after already butchering the hard drive and uninstalling the system backup partition and thought all hope was lost..but there you and the rest of SOULPASS.COM were to help me in such a straight down the line way..CHEERS AND KUDOS TO YOU ALL..
STEVIL68
March 7th, 2008 at 7:06 am
Dear all,
I have an Acer Aspire 5710 and have recently downgraded (although the performance is upgraded) to Windows XPx64 from Vista. I believe I have installed all of the original drivers (they weren’t particularly easy to find I might add and if it wasn’t for web blogs, I would be in a pickle) Everything is fine except for two things:
1) My resolution is stuck on basic and Acer’s (incompetant) technical support team say that they can’t help. I have tried to download the correct driver for my 15.4″ WXGA Acer CrystalBrite LCD but windows will not let me install it.
2) My DVD RW drive can read and play DVD’s and CD’s but I can’t burn anything to disk.
Please can someone help me on this, it’s causing me much stress.
Many thanks.
TD
March 7th, 2008 at 7:15 am
Just like to say thanks for this extremely useful guide - I’m not new to computers but have never done a slipstreamed install cd before.
Just to help others who may read this, I’ve established that the overheating problem is as a direct cause of this laptop supposedly not supporting XP. It would appear that various fixes may work depending on exactly which model you have - in my case, even updating to the latest BIOS of v.1.29a (only just released) didn’t fix the problem on its own. I was greatly amused when I spoke to Acer support and they denied any knowledge of an overheating problem with this pc - despite the fact that it is extremely well documented on the web - a quick google search will show that.
So what did I do to solve it - as I say, I updated the BIOS to v 1.29a (only just released and ACER warn that the previous version of 1.29 may cause problems and shouldn’t be used.
Next, having tried every possible version of the Acer empowering software without success, I uninstalled all the Acer software.
The only third party software that worked was I8KfanGUI - magic, for the first time since I got the laptop (whether Vista or XP), the fan now cuts in and out as needed. My model is Aspire 5315 - 101G08MI
March 7th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Great guide! I managed to do the following though. Under the BIOS “Main” menu, (on my model) amd change the setting under SATA (way down) and put it from AHCI to IDE.
hope it’ll help others. good luck
March 7th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
hi, i have an acer aspire 5610z, which i would like to change the operating system on from vista to xp . could anyone give me a clue as to how this would be done? cheers
March 7th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
I have not had any problems loading drivers, but I can’t seem to find the right driver for the ethernet controller. I am installing windows XP. Can anyone help. I have been to several sites and have tried many drivers to no avail. I am sure I am missing something simple. Thanks.
March 7th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Again I would like to avail you to help me with my Acer 5315 2077. I have already installed win XP pro on it and installed all the drivers in the order you specified. Yet I still have no sound, I have tried several different audio and modem drivers to no avail. I would appreciate ANY help in this. Thank you.
March 8th, 2008 at 2:25 am
When I first ran the setup for the sound drivers I had no sound. In Device manager, expand the system devices and see if there are any problem devices - in my case it was something to do with the voice modem - once I got the drivers installed for that it seemed to sort itself out and I had sound - Sorry can’t remember exactly what I did but I know this was where I started to solve the problem.
March 8th, 2008 at 6:17 am
drivers for Acer Aspire 5315 web cam.
March 8th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
I have the solution for the sound problem !
here the solution:
1. Install Win XP with SP2 !!!
Wiht Service Pack 3 you never find the drivers ! i don´t know why. but SP3 does not find it ( i testet with 10 different sound drivers and all different intel chip drivers ). No chance.
2. After Installing XP Sp2 install the intel_chipset_driver
3. Install Realtec sounddriver WDM_R181 ( or others . i did if with r181 and it woked)
4. Install intel_graphics_driver
5. isntall atheros_wireless
6. broadcom_ethernet_driver
then reboot.
7. now open device manager. install new driver for audio hd. You have to select the “all” folder from the intel_chipset_driver. ( after downloading and unzipping it, you have folder: “intel_chipset_driver/Intel Chipset/all
8. then install
thats it
no you have sound ….
greetings oli
March 8th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
update
after all these, you can install XP SP3. Sound is still there
March 9th, 2008 at 9:01 am
Hi again. back from austria and dying to try xp out on my laptop now.
I hit a roadblock early though.
nlite says that access is denied to “C:\xp-temp\HIVEDEF.INF”.
I did try another way though, that seems to work.
I change the SATA mode to “IDE” and then installed with a already modified xp-DVD.
It found all my partitions and so far my installation is going fine.
Is there anymore roadblocks that I might run in to?
March 11th, 2008 at 3:47 am
Can i install WinXP sp2 on my Asus Z99Le with this prepeared CD or not?
March 11th, 2008 at 11:52 am
# Jehad Says:
February 28th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Hi,
I purchased an Acer Aspire 5315 model ICL50 for the Middle East market. Now your site has been of great help indeed since I preferred WXP SP2 to Vista and every WXP driver you provided worked except my only problem remains with the WIFI driver. I’ve used both Atheros and Broadcom and so far I just don’t seem to hit any success. The supplied Vista drivers CD also includes a Wifi driver for Intel, is there any chance that I should be looking for an Intel XP wifi driver instead?
Please sir, I need your help.
Many thanks in advance.
Jehad, Beirut, Lebanon.
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i have same problem!
Drivers for this wifi dont work, comp model is ICL50….
any help?
greetings,
blaz
March 11th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Thank god for your site! I was banging my head against a wall about the wireless drivers! Atheros doesn’t have any on their site and the acer site for the pan americas never loads half the time!!!! I got xp and all the other drivers loaded fine, but the darn wireless ones on the acer ftp and the driver/app recovery disc i made from the preinstall vista didn’t work for xp. thank you for this site and the drivers! nicely done!
March 12th, 2008 at 8:05 am
Ok people, except LAN and Express card which i canot test right now, i can say everything else works on my Aspire 5315. Thank you once again whoever you are, without your help and this page i probabily wouldn’t encourage myself to by this laptop in a first place.
March 12th, 2008 at 9:28 am
i am ok
March 12th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
preciso com urgencia dos drivers de modem e do controlador de Ethetnet para aspire Acer 5315 não consegui encontrar para xp
March 13th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
is aspire 5315 is the same with aspire 4315 ???
March 14th, 2008 at 3:04 am
Good Job.. I tired from looking for the drivers for the acer aspire 5315, but now I’ve found them.
Thank you.
March 15th, 2008 at 3:36 am
Worked like a charm.
A shedload of virtual beer is on me.
Thanks.
March 15th, 2008 at 4:26 am
For XP SP3. If PCI Device don’t work, you can try:
1.- Download kb888111xpsp2.exe from Microsoft and unpack with winrar.
2.- Manually install the driver with device manager.
3.- Install Realtek audio driver of this site.
Now, Ive sound.
March 15th, 2008 at 9:32 am
I upgraded my 5315 to XP and all drivers work great. I also changed the Celeron M 530 for a C2D T7300, and it runs nicely on 800FSB (even though the chipset is only supposed to go to 533). I also changed to hard disk for a faster 7200rpm version, a Hitachi HTS722010K9SA00 100GB, and that really made a difference! It almost has double the read and write speeds, and everything is much more responsive.
The only problem I’m having, like everyone else here, is the overheating issue after standby. And thats a bummer.
March 15th, 2008 at 10:44 am
I thought I had the heat problem fixed with the BIOS update to 1.29a, but a week ago it crashed on me again. I went out on the net and found THE TOOL to fix it. Download I8kfanGUI at http://www.diefer.de/i8kfan/index.html, install it, and have it start up during boot. I have been testing it for a week now, putting the 5315 on standby and taking it out of it many times without a crash! The program shows the cpu temp and controls the fan when it needs to. I finally can enjoy my notebook and put it on standby as many times as I want to.
Good luck to all of you downloading and installing it!
Andres
March 15th, 2008 at 10:55 am
gooddddd
March 16th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
The i8kfan doesn’t controls the fan speed. Only read the CPU temperature. Maybe it’s enough to not overheat? I’ll try it.
March 17th, 2008 at 12:48 am
@ kikke:
That’s true, you CAN’T control it BUT if you put it on automatic you’ll see that you fan kicks in when the temp goes up to 45 ~ 50. I’m still enjoying it
The tool is for DELL notebooks, but for some strange reason it wakes up the fancontrol on the acer’s .
March 17th, 2008 at 4:19 am
Great site! I solved all problem, good job maded here
THX!
March 17th, 2008 at 5:55 am
Many 5315 users says the acer’s power management software is required to turn on the fans when it’s resuming from suspend..
As we see, it’s enough to read the cpu temperature in i8kfan’s way.
The bad thing is in Linux, I put an ACPI temperature meter applet to panel, but it’s show false values and the processor is overheating. I hope it will fixed, I want to use Ubuntu with this machine. But it’s seems to me impossible, because of negligence of Ubuntu ACPI Team and Acer’s support.
March 18th, 2008 at 6:24 am
We have followed all the above instructions and keep getting an “8448 error” when trying to burn the disk any ideas?
Cheers Glen
March 18th, 2008 at 11:20 am
hi,
is this overhead problem solved with the new bios v1.31 that ist availible
at acer’s ftp?
March 18th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
@Alice:
I just check the release file for the V1.31 BIOS but the don’t mention it anywhere. You could try it and let us now, but if I don’t have to update my BIOS I rather not do it. I found updating a BIOS pretty risky
March 18th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
hi all,
now, i update to v1.31 bios.
there is NO change to the sleeping mode / fan / temp. problem at all
means: the cpu will continue to overheat…
March 18th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
After copying the fils, and just before it finishes burning, this is what comes up!
“8448 The replication reference information for the target server already exists”
I can’t seem to find acer http://ftp.
March 18th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
@Alice:
Thanks for your message….it’s what I was afraid of, are you using the tool I mentioned?
March 18th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
BRAVO!!! Thanks for making it so simple. Your instruction is superb. If only we had more people like you instead of official stupid download pages from manufacturers. Good luck and from now on I will be visiting this page very often.
Rade
March 19th, 2008 at 2:45 am
@Andres
http://www.diefer.de/i8kfan/index.html !!
works great, thank you for this little tool
fan will NOW work after sleepmode
alice
March 19th, 2008 at 3:34 am
hello i have the acer 5315 aspire and the audio wont install i tryed the one on this site it won’t work would you could please help me. i installed windows xp and works fine expect the audio. thank you
March 19th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
THANKS ALOT FOR EVERY THIG
March 19th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
http://mishop.ucoz.ru/Universal_Audio_Architecture_High_Defini.7z
Working Audio on xp sp3 with this driver. Hda Driver instal to “pci device”,
but my modem don’t work.
Eny konw tell my.
Hi
March 19th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
http://www.diefer.de/i8kfan/index.html !! Have Virus torojan on the exe file
March 20th, 2008 at 12:46 am
@ Misho:
Sorry to hear that. I did get a good copy, non of my virusscanners (McAfee, AVG) could find anything.
There are probably more way’s of getting the file, just google
March 20th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
@ Barbara:
Check http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=226360&page=2
The “disable let the system turn off this device” trick works on an aspire 5315 i’ve just installed.
March 20th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
BIOS 1.32
ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/notebook/aspire_5315/vista/Bios
March 21st, 2008 at 12:50 am
@WwTIPPYwW:
Do you know what’s new in 1.32 ?
March 21st, 2008 at 1:05 am
To everybody with the heat problems:
BIOS update 1.32 does NOT solve it…I can’t believe Acer s*cks at solving this big problem. I just tested it but I had to turn on the i8kfan before my CPU started to burn again.
What did happen is that it installes a news driver for a ACPI device, didn’t figure out which one yet.
March 21st, 2008 at 1:43 am
I am getting this error after I load sata driver using the floppy drive
d:xpsprtm\base\boot\setup\oemdisk.c. .Anyone can help.thx
March 21st, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Is there anyone who can confirm if a Expresscard/54 will work with the XP upgrade?
March 21st, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Hello Mate,
I just got my Acer Aspire 5315 today with linux os installed. I followed your steps for installing Windows XP and it worked. Thank you for this post.
Kind regards,
ot
March 21st, 2008 at 2:59 pm
tenho um notebook acer aspire 5315-2142, e quero instalar o driver do dispositivo usb huawei mobile connect - 3g modem ,com posso fazer isso.meu sistema op atual instalo è xp.
March 22nd, 2008 at 2:50 am
well, in my acer 5315 no more overheat, install this two file
in C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers. this two files is a part of acer epower management
downloadlink: http://www.sendspace.com/file/j9z6nh
March 22nd, 2008 at 10:25 pm
anyone else tried the above files??? i will try them out tonight and report back…. it’s good to have a spare 2.5″ SATA drive for times like these.
let me know if anyone else has any luck with them
thanks
bigozone
March 23rd, 2008 at 1:24 am
@zoka
how? should i install tihs files?
March 23rd, 2008 at 10:33 am
copy this to:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers
March 23rd, 2008 at 11:54 am
thanks this helped alot, i didnt have a the 5315 but i did have a 4315 and the nlite procedure worked like a charm thanks.
March 23rd, 2008 at 1:02 pm
i’ve just buy aspire 4920, it came linux basic, i’ve try to install xp pro sp2 but it didn’t work, it doesnt recognize the hardisc, i follow ur instruction just to get the sata driver, as far as i know it works!!!, now i just need to install the original driver fr. CD that came with the aspire 4920, hope it work,
anyway…your description is very clear and helpfull to me…even i have no experienced can do it….with different series of aspire (4920 not 5315)..Thanks a lot…
(sorry for my bad english….)
March 24th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
simply you are the best
March 24th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
isapnp.sys is needed when i want to install chipset device driver ?? any help
March 24th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
forgot to say i installed win xp onto acer ..thanks, but the above mentioned problem remains
March 25th, 2008 at 5:07 am
all went well thx chief
March 25th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Thank you Alex for this wonderful guide. Everything went off without a hitch and I am much happier with XP vs Vista!!
March 25th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Thx my 5315 work fine, and is flyng in xp, nest test are in linux! hope working whit FC8
March 25th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
i did install win xp2 using ide mode setting and all went fine except i didn’t know the drivers located on the cd were vista compatible and i tried my ass off to make’em work. of course they did not. googled then for how this gizmo might get fixed and found you guys. i downloaded your files and i’m going to put them on my brand new notebook.hope it will work. let’s see how soon you’ll be hearing from me :))
March 26th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
@Zoka
Those files don’t prevent my Acer 5315 from overheating. I watched the cpu go to 60C before I turned the I8kfan to automatic.
Are there other people were it DID work?
March 27th, 2008 at 3:54 am
Man, it worked like a charm
Just bought an Acer Aspire 5315-102G16MI and installed XP on it using the slipstream method.
Not even a single error on installing anything works perfect.
Thanks for a very useful tutorial “Thumbs up”
Alex
March 27th, 2008 at 5:18 am
@Andres
for me, it will NOT work…
March 27th, 2008 at 5:36 am
BIOS v. 1.33 released without any readme or changelog, only an exe.
Doesn’t show the current BIOS version and the update’s version.
It seems to me unsafe so I DON’T recommend this.
March 27th, 2008 at 6:44 am
@Anonymous:
I tried BIOS V 1.33….didn’t solver anything, and since I don’t know what changed I “flashed” back to 1.29a(don’t fix it it aint broken)
Andres.
March 27th, 2008 at 7:52 am
I installed I8kfan in my 5315 european version and the fan works perfectly in automatic mode. Temp is 45 to 52Cº.
March 27th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Howdy all ! First a shout out to ALEX ,,Thanks brother ! You made this so simple that,,just about anyone with a SLIGHT Knowledge of Windows operating systems,can “Git R dun” ,I used the “Internet and CD burner method” and was up and flying in about 2-3 hrs from Format to loading all the bare nessesities such as “AVG” “ADOBE” “JAVA” ,and all Windows updates ! Your Driver list is what makes this such a breeze ! A person could spend hours alone just “Googling” to find the Drivers for XP to get everything running and still not find them all (I DID !) so once again thank you ,thank you ,thank you ! OK now that I’ve said my peace on that ! Another shout out to “ANDRES” for the i8kfan exe ,which I found to be a requirement for proper fan operation to keep the sucka cool ,it works well with no tweaking,just install and let it do its thing ! I had the 5315-2153 model and used XP “HOME” w/sp2 and had no problems whatsoever ,by following the directions above ! Load the drivers in order listed as recommended ! One thing that should be noted thoe,and is not is that you should do all(or should say have to) your “WiNDOWS UPDATES” before loading any of the DRiVeRs from #6-9 ,as they require .NET FRAMEWORK 1.1 or higher ,which if you try to load them they will notify you of that little fact ! Another side note is that i8kfan should be #10 on the list ,just for saftey sake ! ANYHOW,enuff of my shpeel ! I added another gig of RAM (2×1gig),with Vista running in the factory configuration and the thing was still pathetically horrible to use ! Now with 2 gigs of ram and XP this thing blows me away on the performance it offers for the price,totally amazed,and 1 happy camper ! AND finally and not to be overlooked ,,when you load XP you will see that there are 3 partitions on the hard drive ,,1 which will be the smallest and has sumthing like “qresore” or sumthing like that in ( ) beside it ,was F: in mine ,is the restore partition DO NOT and i repeat DO NOT delete that partition,just delete the other 2 and then load XP on the unallocated space . This will allow you to use your restore disk that you made or you can get from ACER ,to load VISTA in the factory craptactular configuration with all the applications back on it in the event ,you ever decide to ,,,(even thoe after experiencing the performance difference between XP and Vista ,God only knows why you would) ,but never say never ! XP will not notice this extra partition except for the fact that your DVD drive will now be E: instead of D: as it would if you deleted that partition ! OK,, Thanks again to all whom have posted here,and happy computing folks ,,and GOD BLESS !
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March 27th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
@Tim “the techman”:
Thanks! Just to ad to the partition topic, I did delete all of them. I figured, if I get 120gb I WANT 120gb It’s no big deal, before I formated the disc I made the recovery dvd’s (2) wich makes you able to reinstall Vista and all the other pre-installed software. I tried this for “fun” last weekend just to see what SP1 does to Vista(got a good SP1 copy..so why not I thought), good thing I had a image from my XP installation on the Windows Home Server! As you can figure it didn’t last long. Vista is “good” looking but stil not what XP offers. Maybe one day I’ll give it another try since there are more drivers (and Empowering stuff) for Vista.
Besides that it’s good to hear that everybody here was able to help
March 27th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
@Andres (he he he) Your right if you can use the whole disk size ,why should’nt you ,,I geuss ,I just figured ,to boot into that restore partition,, I’d leave it on there,,geuss you really don’t “HAVE TO” I could be wrong on this point ,,but I did’nt think the restore disk would reinstall partitions,and since this was my brothers computer,I wanted to be able to get it back to the factory state incase he would have some type of hardware related problem later,,that way “HOPEFULLY” ACER would’nt try to weasle out of the warrantee ,as he bought an extended warranty,,,sometimes OEM’s can get pretty petty about stuff like you messing around with their configuration ,,,ThaNKs AgAiN ,to everyone ,,,,,GOD BLESS
March 28th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
i’ve been running the 1.33 bios for 3 days now… i too wonder what was changed from the 1.32 version,, but because i have an upgrade CPU on the way i know it’s to my advanage to have the current BIOS which will have support for more CPUs than older versions of the bios..
those 2 .sys files didn’t seem to activate my CPU fan,, i removed them as soon as the temp hit 55c and resumed using the Dell fan control.
March 28th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Thanks! your information is so good
March 29th, 2008 at 10:11 am
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I’m Telling u, after get this site i use to install XP almost every Day on Deff
Acer Machines
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March 29th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
thanks ı love you good site and information
March 29th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Hey! greetings from latvia! cd burning method is great! it worked withouth any problems, and also all the drivers worked great! thanx abou all this stuff!
March 29th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
I managed to get XP SP2 running on Acer 5315 051G12MI with everything but the sound, thanks for the detailed instructions.
I tried the Realtek driver included but still no joy :(. Device manager shows the device is “Working properly” and no warning to do with the Sound, game and video controllers.
Please help guys, i really need the sound.
March 29th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
@Shepster:
Did you install the modem yet? With me that triggerd the sound device…
Good luck!
March 30th, 2008 at 9:44 am
If your sound system dont work, update PCI Bus.
Can anyone tell me how to update the bios? I never did it before.
March 30th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Venho atravez desse maravilhoso site, agradecer pela grande ajuda. Trabalho com manutenção e fiquei satisfeito com facilidade de encontar soluções aqui no site. PARABÉNS!!! e Obrigado.
Att. Fabio Brito
March 31st, 2008 at 2:59 am
Hi I’ve a problem with Acer 5310, plz help me o find out how to install XP on it.
Thanx, I remain.
March 31st, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Hi…
Interesting and usefull site, but I still have a problem with one driver on my Aspire 5315. I have Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2, version 2002 and when I check my harware - device manager - it appears not working properly “Mobile Intel (R) 965 Express Chipset Family” which is version 7.14.10.1280. I searched on net newer version but i had no luck. Because of this problem, I can’t see, for example, a movie… using a player without no codecs - KM Player. The image appears on a corner of the screen. What solution do I have or will I find the proper driver?
Thanks,
Larisa
March 31st, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Hi evryone! Thanks.Thanks.Thanks.
Especiallu thank you Alex for unselfish share yuor knowledge.
April 1st, 2008 at 1:15 am
My Acer 5315 had the same overheating problem after I installed xp. Even after I had the ePower stuff downloaded frorm this page, the overheat-shutdown phenomenon persisted. This was particularily the case after standby. The fan control seemed working ok after it wakes up from hibernation, but after standby, the fan didn’t work, overheat, then shutdown.
Updating the bios to 1.33 didn’t fix the problem. BUT I fixed it with i8fanGUI.
Setting it to audomatic mode, fan just works fine after standby/hibernation.
Amazing thing is i8fanGUI can replace the ePower bloatware. I completely uninstalled the ePower thing, and left i8fanGUI alone do the job. Yes, it works!!!
April 1st, 2008 at 5:42 am
For Vel :
(http://soulpass.com/2007/11/10/installing-windows-xp-professional-sp2-on-acer-aspire-5315-2153-laptop/#comment-18828)
try these screen settings:
Start intel graphic properties application; click on 3D; make following changes:
-depth buffer bit depth ->24bit;
-Force S3TC texture compression ->ON
-Force FXT1 texture compression ->ON
-texture color depth->32 bits per pixel
Check the image. These settings will give you a liitle less “crisp” and little more “vivid” and “fullnes”.
April 1st, 2008 at 12:58 pm
Thank you very much!! It worked!
April 1st, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Again for sound:
if doesn’t works at first, sometimes it is enough just to restart TWICE instead of update driver after installing it.
April 1st, 2008 at 8:03 pm
Sir,
I have purchased Acer Aspire 5315-201G12Mi day before yesterday, i.e March 31st 2008 so I have tried installing Win XP Prof. SP-2 and since it did not boot from the CD (Win XP Prof. SP-2) I had to change the 1st. boot sequence to DVD Drive then it booted successfully but as the system copied all necessary files from the CD and begins to start Windows XP, but it fails to do so showing the reason, something like, can not detect the Hard disk.
Therefore, I have selected the bios setup to “IDE” mode instead of AHCI and then XP installed successfully.
However, installation of respective drivers started giving trouble again, as I see those drivers were meant for theVista not for XP.
So I have now found your website and gained enough confidence that at last I can probably make the XP running in this Notebook.
So please intimate me if your advise, above mentioned, is also applicable applicable for the Acer Aspire 5315-201G12Mi model as well?
Thanks & Regards,
Soumendra Nath Thakur
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:22 am
After a few failed attempts to upgrade the CPU in my ASPIRE 5315, i finally got hooked up with some good info at the link i’ve posted.. anyway these 5315’s have a SocketP celeron processor. At first i ordered scoketM CPUs (my family has 3 of these 5315s), anyway when i got some good info i was able to upgrade to a CORE 2 DUO T5450. these cost $50 to $80 used on ebay, and if you check that link you will see that there are others who have upgraded to T7100, T7250, T7300 CPUs… just do your research ESPECIALLY if you are buying used off EBAY… i’ve had my CPU in for 6 hrs and i can honestly say the laptop is much more responive due to the TWO cores, and the SpeedStepping helps with cooling quite a bit too.
just a word of caution,, you will probably be vioding your warranty if you do this, but if you are careful you could easily change CPUs w/out acer knowing as long as you keep your old CPU just incase you need to send the unit in for service.
Cheers too all and it’s no longer april fool’s day and this is the god’s honest truth… see this link also:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=206137
they use socketM processors DO YOUR RESEARCH
April 2nd, 2008 at 7:45 am
Does anyone have idea how to finf driver for acer aspire 5715Z , XP ??? I realy need help.
April 2nd, 2008 at 7:50 am
does anyone have idea where to find XP pro audio driver for acer aspire 5715Z????
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:26 am
Hi ,
I have installed xp on my Acer Aspire 5610Z But the sound wont work…can anyone pls help me…..
April 3rd, 2008 at 4:52 am
@Rome
Read TOp Of This Best Blog!
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Thank you… man Good Work
April 3rd, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Thenk you… This can work for all Linux OS on computers.
This can work for all Linux OS on computers.
You have helped me lake Superman to USA.
April 4th, 2008 at 5:32 am
Hello,
Will work this drivers on a Notebook ACER TM5320-051G12MI? Please help me, I’m a newbie who have to make a decision regarding aquisition of a non operating system notebook. It seem as 5320 is basicly the same platform upgraded with a firewire port, a card reader and 2 PCI slots.
Thanks in advance for any sugestion.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:16 am
There is been five days I looking for audio driver for ACER ASPIRE 5715Z . In hope we can establish good conversation in future I wait for someones response about driver that I rely need. Please help to man who is looking for solution to help him self.
April 4th, 2008 at 10:14 am
A quick note to people who are commenting with questions about laptops other than the Acer 5315-2153, for which this tutorial is written. Please note that you are taking a shot in the dark by commenting about things like that. Chances are, no one will respond because they probably don’t own that laptop and therefore would not be equipped with the tools to help. If they do respond, cool, but this tutorial is written with the 5315-2153 in mind.
April 5th, 2008 at 5:49 am
I have Acer 5315 - 050508Mi and I installed WinXP and found & installed most of drivers. Unfortunately except driver for wifi device. System looks like this is Broadcom 4311, but I tried maybe 15 drivars pack from internet (of course toofrom here) and system still notice that driver is bad
April 5th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
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April 5th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Acer Aspire 5050 5430 Laptop Computer
April 6th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Amazing job, dude!!! Thanks for the great assistance. Long live rock’n'roll and don’t stop to hate Vista!
April 7th, 2008 at 2:19 am
Recently bought an Aspire 5315, reformatted it with XP right away, didn’t realise it would be such a pain.
Everything working well at last, tried epower to fix overheating, worked but such a resource hog. I8kfangui however was great, worked even better.
April 7th, 2008 at 10:24 am
Hello,
I have installed xp on my Acer Aspire 5315 But I’ve a problem with drivers for the “Modem Device on High Definition Audio Bus”
…can anyone, pls, help me?
April 7th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Dear Alex Wells, I came back to this forum just to thank you.
I bought a new Acer 5920 Notebook and installed XP. Everything was good except no sound. Followed your steps to install Realtek HD Drivers first before everything else and it worked just right.
Spent more then 12 hours in 2 days downloading and testing various drivers and finally your guide helped me out. You are my hero…God Bless!
April 8th, 2008 at 5:47 am
Muito bom o site, me ajudou no driver que estava procurando.
Muito obrigado, continue com o site.
April 8th, 2008 at 8:12 am
Thank you for this - it worked perfectly on first attempt!
Vista sucks - XP’s better!!!
OS X Rules though…
April 8th, 2008 at 11:45 am
It worked perfectly
BUT !!! the wireless shows an error..but i reinstaled the wireless driver and now it’s working 
Thanks for this amazing TUTORIAl 
God bless you 
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April 9th, 2008 at 5:45 am
Nice tutorial. Managed to get XP installed on my Acer Aspire 4720z, only thing I still havnt managed to get working, after several months is the sound. Has anyone here had any luck with sound on that model ?
Thanks
April 9th, 2008 at 8:18 am
Hi All,
I solve a problem right now - I do not know why but the CPU temperature of my AcerAspire is usually about 60-66 degrees with no use of processor (0% usage). I suspect that it is caused by last bios updates since when I used the version 1.16 the temperature was usually about 45-50. Now the situation is the fan never stops - it only slows down/speeds up depending on current temp.
Does it happen to somebody else, too ?
Any suggestions why? It does not have anything to do with software installed since I get the same temperature values also in Linux (installed on second partition next to WinXP).
Thanks…
April 9th, 2008 at 10:48 am
Marek,
Try cleaning out the cpu heatsink. I have to clean my every week or two to keep the temperature down.
April 9th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Hi again Alex,
Acer 5315-2256 works great with XP Pro except I can’t get
s video out to work. Is there a setting I need to change or
a new driver ?
Thanks for your help
Gerry
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April 10th, 2008 at 10:06 am
I just successfully installed Windows XP HOME on an Acer 5315 2122 using the drivers listed on this page. It worked excellently the first time with much less hassle than I’m used to when accomplishing anything.
April 10th, 2008 at 10:56 am
YOU SAVED ME ! THANK YOU !
April 10th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Hi
please explain to me what is happening to my 5315 aspire .
I made a installation disc for xp sp2, using the informations above. The computer freezes at a black screen after ” Setup is inspecting your computer configuration …” . I can’t do anything from there. Only power off and try again. Please give me an idea.
thank you
April 10th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Robert… how long did you wait at that step? Maybe once it gets there you could go run an errand or something, and come back? It really shouldn’t take all that long, but not sure how long you’ve tried waiting…
April 10th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
Hi
I found the problem using Hiren’s Boot CD. My HDD’s MBR was somehow destroyed or corrupted. Fixed that and I succeded to install XP using settings above. So it works ! .. I only needed allmost 20 hours to find HDD’s problem
Regards
April 10th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
ACER’s website http://global.acer.com - has the XP and the Vista Drivers available for immediate download.
Went to their website, selected “The Americas” then selected “United States” then selected “Service & Support” then selected “Drivers & Downloads” then selected “Notebook” “Aspire 5315″ and guess what is there ALL DRIVERS for all hardware for BOTH XP and Vista.
April 11th, 2008 at 1:30 am
every thing on this website was extremelely helpful. thanks a bunch.
April 11th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
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April 12th, 2008 at 4:45 am
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April 13th, 2008 at 10:41 am
I have install Windows XP on my Aspire 5710 and it will not turn off, stopping in the message “Windows is shutting down”. Can you help me?
April 13th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Dear Alex, thanks for your help in advance, i have a problem with my acer 5315, concerning yahoo messenger, as when i input my ID & PW, the messenger disappear with out any any respones.
please your reply is requested.
thanks a lot
April 13th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Hello everyone…i am new here i think.
I purchased a new aspire 5315 laptop with celeron processor and 1ggs of RAM and 120 ggs memory on it.
it came with no system installed on it and i want to use windows xp because vista is working really hard on it…it just cannot stand vista.
after i installed the windows xp like here you teach me, i’ve installed the drivers also like you teached me but the sound doesn’t work.
it doesn’t give any error when i install the 1st driver realtek HD audio driver but in control panel it says that there is no audio card.
in the device manager the only one thing that is not installed is a PCI DEVICE witch i can’t install from anywhere.
Please it will be really helpfull to teach me how to make it work on my notebook because i need the sound as any of you.
if you want, post here or contact me on djsinusoid ID.
Really thanks!
April 14th, 2008 at 7:24 am
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April 14th, 2008 at 8:52 am
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April 14th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Hello ,
I saw that here are some persons who really knows what`s happend with this laptop model .
My name is Marius and i am from Austria . I just buy an ACER ASPIRE 5315 == 1,73 gHz=120GB=2GB DDR2 … I put windows xp & SP2 on it . After i instal an antivirus ( no matter what antivirus ) , the sistem is not restarting/shutting down . Always i have to stop it from the power button . If i uninstal the antivirus , i am abble to restart/shut down it .
Please , can anybody tell me why is happening this and what can be done ?
Is the thirt time when i reinstal Win Xp , and the problem is the same .
THANKS .
April 14th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
MIHAI NEAGU —- u are from Romania , isn`t it ?
after instaling an antivirus , your sistem is restarting / shutting down normaly ?
April 14th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
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April 14th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
If someone interested i have screen settings that i personally feel “eyes friendly” and pleasant; may give it a try :
1)
Open Intel Graphic application;
Click Color Correction;
Click Blue radio-button;
Pull the “brightness” slider down to -30;
Click Scheme Options, give it a name and save if you like it.
2)Added a Color Profile Kodak_dc.icc (copied from other computer):
Right click Desktop/properties/settings tab/advanced/color management/add/Kodak_dc.
Color is 16 bit, LCD brightness left on step4.
These gave me the ability of multi-hour yet sweet-tasted work.
Especially good at no-daylight condition.
Btw, it’s 5315-050508Mi model ICL50.
April 15th, 2008 at 8:53 am
Works in the acer aspire 5315-2384!!!
April 15th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Asta la vista, BABY! It worked, thanks so much!! Sweet, it’s so much faster. Thanks Alex!
April 15th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Marius…yes i am from Romania…
I installed the symantec antivirus…the system is restarting ok and shutting down too but it often remains black screen after restart or power up.
i think you know the problem but why is doing that? how can i solve this problem, anyone know?
April 15th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Bruce…can you help me make the sound work??please…ti will be really helpful
April 15th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
@mihai
install modem driver.
April 15th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
if i install modem driver…the problem with the sound…will be solved?
April 16th, 2008 at 9:43 am
@mihai
DA
April 16th, 2008 at 11:31 am
THANk YOU SO MUCH!!.EVeRYThinG WORKED PERfeCT.
April 16th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
ok…i am gonna try this weekend to install it to see if the sound will works…
thank you anyway…and i’m gonna tell you here if i’m done or need assistance again:)
bye
April 16th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
guys … dupa ce dau shut down sau restart , se opresc toate motoarele .. nu mai misca nika , insa display`ul ramane pornit si zice windows is shutting down si asa ramane … tre sa tin apasat pe butonul de power pentru a-l opri … ce naiba sa-i fac ? am incercat cu bit defender si avast … aceiasi prb. … daca dau jos antivirusul , se opreste normal .
ceva idei ? modifica antivirusii astia ceva setari in win ? ideea e ca pe PC ul normal am acelasi antiv - avast - si acolo nu am nici o prb .
April 17th, 2008 at 8:30 am
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April 18th, 2008 at 6:48 am
thank you
April 18th, 2008 at 7:54 am
Hey all,
I followed the internet/Cd method and upgraded my aspire 5315 to XP. However,as with many others, my Atheros wireless will not connect to any available networks it sees. It sits in the system tray with a red cross. My ethernet works fine. Pressing the radio buitton on the top of the keyboard does nothing!
Anyone have any ideas for me? I’ve read the comments and nothing has worked for me.
cheers,
Art…
April 18th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
First, thanks to alex for this tutorial.
Mine is Acer Aspire 5315-200508Mi, i just bought it 2 days ago.
It came with Celeron 2GHz, 512MB RAM (Upgraded to 1GB), 80GB HD, Atheros Wifi, Agere Modem, Broadcom Ethernet.
I followed the tutorial, wiped out the Vista, installed XP SP2, used all drivers above, and all seem working fine except my Intel GMA’s AGP Texture Acceleration that is disabled in XP (in Vista, it is enabled). How can i make it enabled?
“standby problem” - i don’t install any acer stuff but use Notebook Hardware Control instead and the “standby problem” is not happening to me. and for Vista, the problem didn’t happen too even without NHC and acer stuffs. My BIOS is 1.29.
April 18th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Could anybody tell me how to test my wifi to see if it’s worked?
It does show up in the tray. Does it means it is worked?
I’ve never use wireless connection before.
And what is this called “serial” thing in my device manager>non-plug and play drivers? Does anybody knows?
Sorry for the troubles and my bad English. Thanx in advance.
April 19th, 2008 at 4:23 am
BIOS version 1.34 seems to resolves overheating problem!!!
April 19th, 2008 at 7:40 am
Does it work on ACER ASPIRE 5315/2608 ?
Thanks in Advance.
April 19th, 2008 at 7:55 am
I have bought Acer aspire 5315 lately, I run XP profesional on it.. still the problems with cpu fan appears to be serious..I wanted to be sure about the fan.. so I took a flashlight and noticed that cpu fan works about 30 seconds, then it stop for a 10 seconds and then it repeat the “procedure”. My solution is a simple combination of external cooling pad\costs 10-20 USD\, of course I disabled Standby and Hibernation as options.. and my pc seems to work properly. It is amazing machine… I am using Everest Ultimate - diagnostic tool which has very precise temperature tool - so I can see what is happening.. Normally my hard disc works on 31 degrees Celsius, CPU Diode - 50-55 degrees Celsius and CPU - 50-55.
April 19th, 2008 at 8:03 am
lunn, Indonesia - try to open network Connections and then to enable WIFI, then u have to push the button with the satellite dish.. but first and most important thing is to see with device manager if u have any unrecognized devices - and do u have Atheros wifi.. with yellow question mark.. if u dont have that thing u have to try the upper procedure with enabling ur wifi adapter.
April 19th, 2008 at 8:27 am
staphke Says:
“April 19th, 2008 at 4:23 am
BIOS version 1.34 seems to resolves overheating problem!!!”
really!? sure?
how do you test this?
alice
April 19th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
@Rada
Driver is set, a network is detected and i can connect to the network. but there is none received, only sent. Is my wifi or the network that reject my request? thx in advance.
April 20th, 2008 at 2:37 am
lunn, Indonesia - I presume that ur wifi adapter is not set properly. try to use the option in command promt \i presume u are using Win XP\, start run, then type CMD
and then IPCONFIG /all. The response will be ur current wifi network settings. if there is 0.0.0.0 u should find all settings - ur ISP had to gave the settings somewhere and to input them manually.
April 20th, 2008 at 3:51 am
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April 20th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
I have bought the acer laptop and have re-installed windows xp from the garbage system of vista.
Only problem I am having with this is that the USB device is saying that I am running it at USB 1.0. Is there anyway of fixing this problem?
I do have service pack 2 installed and made sure my chipset drivers are up-to-date.
April 20th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
works perfect, choose the 82801hem/hbm sata ahci controller, took a couple of hours, but now i could do it in minutes, thx
April 21st, 2008 at 2:19 am
@Rada
Thx, i’ll test it in a hot spot area to make sure it works.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:37 am
@Alex or anybody that is willing to help
when i’m playing game (Warriors Orochi), my CPU temp is 60C. when idle it is 45C-55C. is it normal? usually, my desktop is only about 38C-45C. i use NHC to monitor the temp btw.
and bluescreen keeps occuring when i’m playing Warriors Orochi for about 30-90 minutes. the message is saying that i should allocate adequate disk space or i should check the display driver. it doesn’t happen when i’m playing Warcraft III : FT.
my notebook has 1GB RAM, 27GB free HD space. and i use display driver that i got from above link. could you please help me to figure out what the problem? thanx in advance and sorry for my bad English.
April 23rd, 2008 at 12:20 am
i had problem in my laptop,my acer is aspire 5315-2153.i change my vista to xp incidentally the language is Spanish.how can i change the language to English.pls…help us!
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:01 am
alice!
I had cpu overheating problem after standby under xp or ubuntu< even under vista few times. After i insalled newest versio of BIOS comp is working just fine with xp installed. CPU fan is working normaly after standby - switching on and off.
So, alice, try it.
April 24th, 2008 at 3:46 am
Hi.. Do you have program of Windows XP English language, that compatible with my aspire 5315-2153?
April 24th, 2008 at 10:47 am
hi,
thank you very very much for the big help
i installed xp very well but just whith the drivers of sound, wi-fi, ethernet, graphics & chipset (modem too)
for the oders like touchpad or empowering technolgy if i install theme i have a big prob that made me reformat my laptop about 4 times
when i install those programs from the links in this topic every thing works fine but when i want to shut down my laptop is blocs on the screen: shutting down windows
and i must hold the power button to power it off
does any one know a solution for my prob
sorry for the english…
April 24th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Thanks!!!!! It´s working.
Thank you again.
April 25th, 2008 at 2:43 am
fantastic, THANK YOU.
April 25th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
thankyou, you are the beste
April 26th, 2008 at 4:08 am
what is overheating .. more exactly ??
April 26th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
I have removed Vista from my Acer Aspire 5310 and installed XP Professional and Sevice pack 2. All work fine and pretty fast with normal programmes. I want to use it with a datashow. I can see the second monitor in Dispaly - Settings, and I can set the external monitor to extend my Notebook LCD, so the driver seems OK. But I can not switch it to work as the primary monitor. Also the Function F5 key does not work in the way it should; ie switching on the datashow or external monitor; nothing happens. Function F6 works OK to switch off the notebook LCD. Is there a driver that is needed to make the Funtion F5 key work? Can anyone help on this? Have you guys got the Function F5 key to switch on the exteranl monitor OK; if so how?
Paul
April 27th, 2008 at 4:43 am
thanks a lot for your post dude!
April 28th, 2008 at 3:38 am
I am buying an acer aspire 5315-050508Mi. Question - I have a SP2 version of Xp home can I do the same trick as you suggest with this OS?
PS Great site Thanks guys
April 28th, 2008 at 5:12 am
Hello,
I don’t know if this issues were said before, but the readings will take to long.
I have 2 issues:
1. changing the video Memory: it can’t be done from Bios, it is very low, 10 MB, the video card is supposed to used up to 384 MB, using shared memory. If anyone know how to increase the memory please let me know.
2. The video driver coming on resource CD from ACER cannot be installed. The video card is from Intel GL960 chipset, I think 965 Expres Mobile. The error That I have is that the Laptop does not meet minimum requirements.
I have this issue on both XP and VISTA. If any one has any Ieda about this please let me know.
For faster answers please use my email adress: frant_c@yahoo.com.
Thanks.
April 28th, 2008 at 8:34 am
Thank you for making an long-hours-consuming process take no more than twenty minutes!
April 28th, 2008 at 8:44 am
Gostaria de saber se essa instalação também é valida para o Acer aspire 5315-2013, ou se você tem a instalação pra esse laptop?
Desde de já muito obrigado.
April 28th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Stinkin’ kewl documentation! Excellent job in finding functional drivers for that machine. Very useful/helpful. I appreciate it very much.
—
Mike
April 28th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Graham, you should be good to go with XP Home…. feel free to report back with a success story or otherwise if there are any issues, but not sure if there will be someone on here who has tried and could help.
Cipi_frant, there are certainly a lot of comments, but we encourage you to use the “Find in page” feature of your browser (usually CTRL+F in windows-based browsers) to try and find what you’re looking for. To save you some time though, those issues don’t look familiar so they may be unique to your situation… We’re confident that if the directions are followed closely, perhaps coupled with some key comments earlier on in the thread, that everything should go smoothly. If it doesn’t, we may be unable to reproduce the issues and unable to come up with a solution…
For those asking about laptop models other than the Aspire 5315-2153, we probably don’t have those machines so we would be unable to test. Feel free to report though any progress with them…
Machine translation of last paragraph to Portuguese for Patrick: Para perguntar sobre aqueles que não o laptop modelos Aspire 5315-2153, nós provavelmente não têm as máquinas, para que não seriam capazes de teste. Sinta-se livre para relatar quaisquer progressos embora com eles …
Thanks everyone for contributing to the thread!
April 29th, 2008 at 8:04 am
I’ve had problems with the audio. With Oli’s (March 8th, 2008 at 7:31 pm) solution it works now fine. Thank you very much Alex and also Oli for this site and all the remarks.
Now I’ve got a proper XP on this ACER 5315. You’ll get a Swiss Chocolate!
April 29th, 2008 at 11:54 am
Hi, can anyone help me with installing XP SP 2 to Acer 4315. I have already installed the XP 2 but i cannot get the audio detected. The installation process went okay but during the process there is a message saying that installing realtek audio is a failure.
is the installation order for acer 5315 the same for acer 4315.
Pleaseeee helppp thank you
April 29th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
For comfortzone: Did you do the installation process as said on the top of this page or as Oli described in his post from March 8th, 2008 at 7:31 pm?
In my case, I had to reinstall the whole OS and had to go step by step as Oli described in his post. After that, the audio was detected and now works fine.
April 29th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
This was very helpfull, especially slipstream drivers. I had the same problem with overheating and only thing that solve it was i8kfan and i had to put Power Management on Home/Office and changed timings like on Laptop/portable, cause when Power Management was on Laptop/portable computer worked slow for example when I listen mp3 and fan starts to blow song is slowing down. I solved it this way.
April 29th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
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April 29th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Worked quit well on a 5315-2077.
April 30th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Hello , i have a problem with my ethernet network driver . I want to see my network in right corner but it’s now working . I install this b57win32 and i don’t see my network . I plugged my internet cable in my laptop (Acer 5315 101G12Mi) and the light is on but my network i can’t see. I want to help me someone with this problem and other problem it is with my webcam . Help me with a tutorial or something. Thx and sorry 4 my english
April 30th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Thank you very much for this post, well i used windows unattended edition and it works great
April 30th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Hi, I tried this on my Acer Aspire 5315-2803 and it installs fine, but flashes a blue screen then reboots real fast while loading XP. Is this common? No idea what the blue screen says as it flashes by way to fast
May 1st, 2008 at 4:01 am
hello ……. CAN ANYBODY EXPLAIN ME EXACTLY WHAT OVERHEATING IS ?????????????
May 1st, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Thanks for this guide, I just used it to install XP on a customer’s laptop. Much appreciated.
May 1st, 2008 at 4:44 pm
to JLM, no a blue screen error is not common, and indicates anything from hardware problems, to driver problems, to anything else. Being that you have a different model laptop, you probably used an incorrect driver, which depending on what chipset your laptop has, can cause all kinds of problems and will be tricky to figure out.
May 2nd, 2008 at 8:36 am
Has any one got xp wireless land driver for acer 5715z
May 3rd, 2008 at 3:57 am
@Cipi_frant
try using Intel GM965 Chipset Driver. you can find it at Intel site. mine is 5315-200508Mi and it use GM chipset not GL. and to make sure what chipset that you have, you can download a utility also at Intel site to check your chipset. hope it can helps.
May 5th, 2008 at 3:37 am
Thanks, its really useful.
May 6th, 2008 at 12:20 am
would this work with the new acer aspire 6920g?!!im getting it in a few days but its in german and would like it in english but since its windows vista home premium,i cannot change it and would like to downgrade it to xp.
May 6th, 2008 at 7:10 am
Just want to Thank Everone involved. This page helped me get XP on my Acer 5315 (orginally had Vista Home) now with XP, it runs better IMO.
So Once again, Thanks
May 6th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
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May 6th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
I tried this method with my Acer Aspire 2920-6549 and it works just great! Even some of the drivers are the same ones i needed, just had to download the rest from Acer support site. I had some problems with my USB floppy drive so I nlited my Windows xp CD and it worked. Thanks to everyone involved in this project.
May 7th, 2008 at 7:15 am
hello,
i have just bought a new aspire 5315 and as i have installed windows xp sp2 i have problems in instaling the wireless adapter, i have tried different websites and drivers but even if the device manager shows me that there are no problems with the driver when i try to connect to wireless networks it says that the driver is not installed.
any suggestions are more than welcome
thanks in advance
May 7th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Thanks for the drivers! I got it up and running in no-time!
May 7th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
hallo. i have aspire 5310(maybe europe version). Does anybody know,are the drivers on this website compatibile with my 5310??? and there is a memory card reader, where i can find drivers for it?? thanks a lot. Curien_Czech Republic
May 8th, 2008 at 9:44 am
Thank you x 1000000000000000. Such a big help!
May 8th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
i love you man!!! thank’s you are a life savior
May 9th, 2008 at 10:24 am
hi guys
the best site ever, works like a charm
May 9th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
By the way, Service Pack 3 is now available (at least in Portuguese). I’ve done the update using windows update and it’s working fine on my Acer 5315-2142.
May 9th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Hello,
I would like to thank you for the step-by-step instructions on how to install XP on this Acer 5315 (cheapest laptop I’ve ever seen in France €299 +€10 for delivery).
This “thing” is unusable under Vista but works like a charm under XP.
Thanks to you
Cheers
PS : Before handing over this PC to my daughter, I use it under GNU/Linux (Fedora 9 rawhide) and I must confess that the performance/price ratio is fantastic.
May 10th, 2008 at 4:39 am
it works on my 5310. super. but modrm driver no. i installed modem and card reader vista drivers on XP and ok.
May 10th, 2008 at 11:52 am
Works just fine…
Thank you man…
May 12th, 2008 at 3:18 am
I try the floppy way to an acer travelmate 6592 and when i boot from winXP cd i press F6 and then there was no monitor to choose floppy!!!! When i try to boot from floppy there was boot to dos!!! can anyone help me?
May 12th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Alex,
Thank you for posting this valuable information. I recently purchased an Acer 5315-2077. I am not sure of the differences between it and the 2153, but it must be very close as I was able to get XP loaded unto it by following most of your directions.
The modem driver was especially important as I could not find it elsewhere.
Thanks again!
May 14th, 2008 at 1:31 am
Dear Alex,
Ihave the same problem as a few guys here, but I could not solve it in your way.
Data about notebook:
Aspire 5315
1. I installed XP Pro SP3 (maybe this is the reason).
2. I followed the sequence of drivers
3. No result, everything is working perfectly but the Realtek HD
Do you have any other solutions?
Thank you in advance for any answer!
With the kindest regards,
Robert
May 14th, 2008 at 5:58 am
Thanks for all your help and advice !!
Every thing worked fine . Still got to load drivers though . Let you know.
May 14th, 2008 at 10:42 am
Hi Robert LJ
I had the same problem. Then I followed the instructions as Oli (March 8th, 2008 at 7:31 pm) described. Then the Realtek HD worked properly.
May 14th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
SOMEBODY HELP ME!
my pc is acer aspire5315-2290,these are all the drivers??
i’ll change winvista premium for ultimate,will work?
May 15th, 2008 at 6:43 am
Eschli HI!
Thanks for the advice! I’ll try this atone! I’ll let you know if I succeded.
Have a nice day!
Robert
May 15th, 2008 at 6:46 am
But first I must get XP SP2
May 15th, 2008 at 7:48 am
Eschli HI!
IT IS WORKING!!!!!!!
I TRIED IT WITH XP HOME EDITION BUT IT WORKS JUST AFTER I INSTALLED THE DRIVER, I EVEN DID NOT HAVE TO RESTART THE COMUTER
MANY MANY THANS TO YOUR ALL, I’LL GO SPREAD THIS INFOR ARROUND, HEHEHE!!!
Thanks again!
Best regards,
Robert
May 15th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
hello all ,
i have an acer aspire 5315 … with XP & SP2 … is working , everything is fine .. BUT !! .. i still have a problem :
** if i have no antivirus installed , i can shut down it normaly
** if i instal an antivirus ( i try with nod32 , bitdefender , kaspersky , panda , avast ) , when i order restart or shut down to PC ,all the hardware is stopping , and the display is still started showing the message ” Windows is shutting down ” . I must press for 5 seconds the power button to stop it , like on old sources AT .
does anibody have the same problem ?
any ideea why is happening these things ?
May 18th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
thank.i love u
May 18th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
what is best vga driver for 5315(win xp)? vga is x3100, in my laptop this card have only 10 mb, is this correct ? shared memory (384mb) dont work. i have 2mb ram memory.
May 19th, 2008 at 9:43 am
GRACIAS!!!!!!
May 19th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
1) for those of you have the heating and fan problem, installing the acer ultility ePM will work. For those of you that didn’t worked, it may be the laptop problem.
2) After installing XP SP3, you will not be able to install sound card (Audio driver). So basically what you need to do is install all your drivers before you instal SP3. You can then apply SP3 after all drivers are installed.
3) Shut down problem, if you laptop is unable to shut down (staying at the shutting down screen forever), try installing SP3 and the problem will be fixed. But keep in mind my comment on number 2.
May 20th, 2008 at 1:38 am
MANY MANY THANS TO Alex Wells!!! it worked!!!
May 20th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
Is tehre any windows xp pro x64 drivers so I can install that OS on my Acer 5315. i killed the Vista install by doing something that I wont go into here. i would love the Vista install back but Acer don’t provide reinstall disk’s.
May 20th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
I have a ACER ASPIRE 4315 laptop which buit for Vista basic. But I want to use Win XP because it most easier for me.
I found some tips for Installing XP on it . Thanks Buddy
I’m now going to try them now.
Wish me a Luck!.
Thanks for support
Bye GOD Bless You
May 21st, 2008 at 2:35 am
I found another small temperature meter software:
http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/
May 21st, 2008 at 4:02 am
All the drivers are working ok on Acer Aspire 5315 Laptop on Windows XP Professional SP2 + xp home the foxconn modem driver is worling ok.
May 21st, 2008 at 10:33 am
I´m writing you from Argentina and wonder if all the steps you pointed so clearly will work in the Acer Aspire 5315-2529 I´ve just bought! Please give me the feedback before I start! If they do the job, I´ll be thankful for ever!!!
May 22nd, 2008 at 5:13 am
Hi, I installed XP using this guide without any problems, except for the Ethernet driver based one. How do I install this exactly, can I have some step-by-steps on this please?
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:51 pm
mmm, all you need to take vista out is to have an modified XP kit, one wich microsoft does not provide it. I did that thing with the modified Xp about 10 times on 10 different computers (acer aspire, fujitsu siemens,dell) and none had any problems. But that drivers you have there helps me, i will try this next week with an acer aspire 5315 and i will let you know if it works with my modified Xp, but i am pretty sure it does.
May 24th, 2008 at 4:16 am
hi
it is very good.tanhks
May 24th, 2008 at 6:18 am
Hi, I installed XP using this guide without any problems.
Really it’ very good. Thkx
May 24th, 2008 at 11:32 am
Hi Master Alex: EVERYTHING runs perfectly!!! Your advices are absolutely GREAT!!! Forever thankful for your help!!! Hope some day you may come here and celebrate together the knowledge you gave us!!!
May 24th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Hi! I’ve just bought an ACER 5715Z and the shop assistant told me I could find all the drivers for Windows XP on the official site, but there are only for Vista. I’ve searched over the net for alternatives, but I can’t find any…
May 25th, 2008 at 5:16 am
Seems BIOS version 1.34 solved standby,sleep->fan->overheating->shutdown problem for me also.
May 26th, 2008 at 9:14 am
@pRIMzI :
off course, v1.34 solved overheating problem
May 27th, 2008 at 3:15 am
@staphke
@pRIMzI
@zoka
YES! bios v1.34 solved now the overheading problem after standby
finally acer managed it…. it took a while…
thx all
alice
May 27th, 2008 at 4:21 am
i instaled xp sp2 on acer aspire 5315 but the usb port on the right side next to the cd drive isnt working. all the drivers r installed accoerding to device manager. any device i connect to it can not be recognised. anyone please help.
May 27th, 2008 at 6:57 am
Genius all works fantastic….
only one tip in the setup machine for install xp set sata mode in ide mode and the xp recongnize the disk…
thank you very mach… very interesting page….
May 28th, 2008 at 5:13 am
Where I can found next drivers for WinXP.SP2 x64 for Acer Aspire 5680 :
- modem’s, HDAUDIO Soft Data Fax Modem with SmartCP (Controller: HSFHWAZL)
- SMC IrCC Fast Infrared Port
??
May 28th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Hi!
I have a little problem: Acer provides the 1.34 BIOS update only for Vista. If I’ll update it to this version, will my WinXP work fine?
Thx for any advice! The overheating problem pisses me off…
May 28th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
2 aynshtayn> will my WinXP work fine? >
Will be fine, because BIOS update for Vista means that it have only update utility for Vista, nor BIOS binary file! BIOS binary file is independent of Operation system. You must only find corresponding to your operation system update utility - if you have WinXP, then update utility for WinXP ( eg, http://ftp.work.acer-euro.com/utilities/winphlash/ ), if you have Vista - for Vista.
May 29th, 2008 at 10:02 am
Thanks Alex, whole thing worked perfecly, was unusable with Vista.
Got a paypal donate button?
May 29th, 2008 at 11:27 am
hi, i got a acer asire 5710 and used the cd version and it worked fine. just getting the last couple of drivers but everthing is working great. thanks very much for the post.
May 29th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Anyone successful in running Windows 2003 Server on the Acer Aspire? I was able to use the CD method and get the OS installed and most all the drivers. But I was getting an unknown device and “modem device on high definition audio bus” drivers failing to install. I tried disabling the device in device manager, but every reboot it wanted to install the thing.
May 29th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Can Someone please post how to Flash the Bios with the InsydeFlash? I have never updated the bios before and I want to go to whatever allows Windows XP Home w/ SP3.
May 29th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Awesome guide… Nice simple clean XP Pro install completed on a new 5315 picked up here in NZ for $520 (US$400). It’ll make an excellent little machine for our teenager off to university.
No problems at all with any of the drivers thanks to the initial work done by Alex, and to others who have since offered their time and experience. THANKS ALL!
May 29th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Let me revise what I said. I’ve updated to 1.21. What is the highest update that allows Windows XP, because I’ve heard the higher ones do not support it.
May 29th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
Thank You Thank You for this post the drivers and the steps above were perfect i installed Xp Pro in just under 15 minutes with no issues Thanks.
May 30th, 2008 at 7:12 am
Best wishes to the author!
May 30th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
@ kefi - Not here… sorry. Maybe later we’ll try and drop x64 on one. for now it’s probably best to live with what you got (x32).
@ WwTIPPYwW - probably best to pull the physical modem if you’re not going to use it. they are small (size of a US quarter) and easy to find under the big cover on the back. check ebay for “acer modem” to see what they look like.
@ joe - does it work in vista? that USB port is actually connected to a cable, is it possible the cable was jarred loose in a fall? (well I know it’s possible, did it happen? heh)
@ stevenklby - aaaactually we do, Daniel’s been scooting it around a bit but it’s currently at the top right of the page. Any donations are much appreciated, us boys on the technological front-lines need all the help we can get!
@ everyone who mentioned the v1.34 BIOS… that’s great guys, I’ll drop v1.34 soon and see what it’s all about! for those who do not want to load vista just to do the flash, you could try running the vista flasher in WinXP but it seems like a lot of risk to me when there’s a DOS flasher in the same download! so grab the “vista” v1.34 download, unzip it and check the readme. See? there’s a pure DOS BIOS flasher, easy as pie. that also includes a binary file for the bios, so if you have a flasher that you know works in WinXP on these Acers, you could always flash the binary in WinXP with that. I haven’t heard about problems running XP on a v1.34 bios, but I haven’t exactly had my ear to the ground.
@ everyone posting thanks… a pleasure, as always.
May 31st, 2008 at 12:24 am
I did the BIOS update to 1.34 in XP and all works well. The fan works right, too.
By the way a guy mentioned it a long time ago, but I figured out how to make the video better on the 5315. I dunno if anyone knows it, but in the Intel program that comes with the drivers for the video, which you get to by right clicking on the desktop and pressing graphics properties and is called “Intel Graphics Media Accelerator Driver”, Under the 3D settings tab you can change the Driver Memory Footprint to High and that will allocate maximum shared memory to the graphics when needed.
Hope I helped someone….
May 31st, 2008 at 12:29 am
Also, I just bought a 1.73GHz Core Duo Processor on ebay for $11.50. Great Dealz!
Hope to try and put it in when it gets here!
May 31st, 2008 at 2:19 am
Hi all. you can get the windows xp drivers from ftp://ftp.work.acer-euro.com/../notebook/aspire_5315/
It is the acer ftp site. also lots of other things on there ftp for hundreds of products.
I am using windows xp pro x64 (64bit) perfectly.
Intel chipset drivers for x64.
Intel x3100 video card drivers for x64.
realtek HD audio driver for x64.
May 31st, 2008 at 7:03 am
Hey are the above drivers fine and compatible with xp? It seems like theyre for vista. does it matter?
May 31st, 2008 at 9:30 am
Right, so we have all the ingredients here. But before I start messing around with my PC, can anyone who has done it (install XP on a 5315 instead of Vista) tell me what I can expect in terms of percieved performance? Is it really worth the trouble? Thanks in advance, Patrick.
May 31st, 2008 at 2:03 pm
I followed this guide exactly and my installation of XP Home worked perfectly.
May 31st, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Hi guys,
I own this laptop and had the fan problem as well. I remedied it with the i8kfan program I found here and that worked alright.
I recently flashed the BIOS to the most recent version and the fan problem is solved.
May 31st, 2008 at 3:55 pm
patrick
soooo much faster
starts up in about 10 seconds and zippy zapps around.
This is with the 1.8 celeron and 512 ram.
well worth the swap esp since vista uses 400mb ram.
download drivers at the top, follow insturctions, works like a charm.
besides vista is total shit for dumasses.
May 31st, 2008 at 8:17 pm
Most of the drivers for the Acer Aspire 5315 located here ftp://ftp.work.acer-euro.com/../notebook/aspire_5315/vista/Drivers work with vista, xp, 32bit and 64bit.
The intel chipset drivers and x3100 VGA drivers can be obtained from http://www.intel.com and the audio drivers from realtek etc.
Google is your friend people.
As for performance, windows xp totally rocks, vista is bloated and users way to much ram, even when I got 2 x 1024mb sticks of ddr2-667 for dual channel vista still sucked.
has any-one upgraded the HDD or CPU in this laptop?
May 31st, 2008 at 10:30 pm
I sorta upgraded my hard Drive. I bought a new Toshiba 80GB to put Windows XP on. So now, if I ever need Vista again (God forbid), I can just pop in the old drive.
As for CPU, I just ordered the Intel Core Duo T2250 - 1.73GHz. I’ll have twice the processor I have now! I’ll say how it went after I install it.
Haven’t upgraded Memory from 1GB yet, put plan to do so.
Has anyone upgraded their CD Burner to a DVD Burner yet? I want to know how hard it is to do and if it’s worth it. I really need a DVD Burner.
June 1st, 2008 at 6:24 pm
@Jason
http://tinyurl.com/5wsygz for a CPU upgrade.
Google is your friend
I saw something on that site about changing out the HDD as well, but can’t find it just at the moment.
June 2nd, 2008 at 12:22 pm
I followed the instructions step by step with success. I used the nLite procedure to create a bootable CD with appropriate disk drivers. Also created a CD with all the other drivers. Only snag, the Agere modem driver loaded but did not function, so I used the Ambit modem driver http://www.acerpanam.com/synapse/data/7117/documents/Modem_Ambit_v7.62.0.0_2C06_XP_WHQL.zip and that works fine.
I upgraded the BIOS from 1.29 to 1.34 , no problem encountered.
Recommendation : Follow the instructions to the letter, step by step. Do not improvise or guess. Just do what’s written, and you’ll be fine.
Now the question : was it worth the trouble? My answer is definitely YES.
My Vista ACER 5315 PC felt a bit like a PC for Noddy (nice bright colors, rounded boxes, superb icons, stunning - but pointless - visual effects, but all VERY sluggish). That PC felt “constipated”. Downgrading it (or better said Upgrading it) to XP leaves me with a nice, fast and reactive machine. A few figures : Initial boot was in the order of 100 seconds, now 20 seconds. Launch of Internet Explorer was 4 seconds, now 1 second. Launch of Excel 2007 was 4 seconds, now 1 second.
YES, for me, installing XP instead of Vista was a smart move, thanks to Alex Wells.
Note : My 5315 uses a 2 GHz Celeron with 1.5 Gb RAM.
June 4th, 2008 at 6:40 am
Just spent about two hours going thru all these posts.
A great read
Thank you all very much for your comments and suggestions.
Especially Alex.
The Lappie is now flyin along with XP……. It just dosnt go to sleep.
I can live with that
CHEERS
June 4th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Hi!
I am from brazil
and that tuto