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.
August 13th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Dave - hah, fair enough… hopefully you close the book on it now and then never have to think of it again.
robinson - Good! The translator does a bad job with Portuguese. It -sounds- like you’ve got everything straight though.
August 12th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
cara adorei sua dicaso estava sofrendo com essa porcaria do vista formatei coloquei o xp deu tudo certo obrigado!
August 12th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
Hi Alex - All power management seems to be working so I think I am going to accept it as is. Something will no doubt manifest itself one day ! Cheers for all the help anyway.
August 12th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
also, about this “Intel TV Wizard” installer… it’s actually included in the drivers we’ve got on here:
Download the “Intel Graphics Drivers” package, run the EXE…
whatever folder it dumps the install files into, you should be able to look into like:
C:\***WHATEVER***\Intel Graphics\win2k_xp14311\Graphics\TVWSetup.exe
that’s where it should be. I’m not sitting in front of a computer I can install the drivers on right now, but it’s definitely in the package and that’s definitely where it is. if you can guess what to put where I wrote ***WHATEVER*** you’ll be golden… it’s probably either a TEMP folder or like C:\Intel\ for example.
August 12th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
marta - sounds like a bad install, maybe try starting over [with a new disk]. are you sure you followed the nLite instructions properly? be sure to use an original WinXP Pro SP2 disk to slipstream the drivers into if you want to insure that everything is the same. nLite is capable of stripping all sorts of things out of the install disk, including WMP i’m pretty sure.. soo… be sure you don’t do that. past that I really don’t know what to tell you without any details at all.
Dave - sorry, full model # like “5315-2153″ or “5315-051G08MI” or etc. yeah, you are right though.. the details didn’t give me crap, it’s all pretty generic. Does all your power management and stuff work? we didn’t discuss that. maybe it’s the I2C bus… if you can’t read extra temperature sensors (i think CPU should work w/out the I2C bus though) then it could be that… gah, now I don’t even remember if the thing -has- extra temperature sensors. normally fan speed is controlled by that bus as well, so if those fan-speed applications refuse to work right in WinXP, that could clue you in. if you have Ghost or Acronis, you could always image the drive and try starting over to see what happens. It’s just SATA so you can image it in any PC w/ SATA. (or you could always give up of course, heh)
jt - glad to help
Ard Prins - interesting. I installed that Intel TV Wizard to see what it did, couldn’t see anything really useful to be honest… -but- I wasn’t trying to hook up to a TV either! (I was just looking to see if there were any interesting features) I’m glad you figured that out, maybe tonight I’ll install it again and see what there is to see.
August 12th, 2008 at 7:34 am
I used the instructions on this site to install XP PRO on my ACER 5315-051G08MI and it worked like a charme. only my S-video failed to detect my tv. only restarting the intel application seemed to work. Since i can’t explain that procedure to my wife, the search went on. I came across Intel TV Wizard, included in the VISTA version of the driver. This utility can detect your tv even if you don’t restart the application or you computer. Don’t know if there is a seperate version of it, but i used the one included in the VISTA version. You will need DOTNETframework 3.0 to use is. It even has the abbility to centre your screen to fill out you tv.
File TVWsetup.exe can be found here :
http://drop.io/hbjbkxw
hope it’s some help to you.
August 11th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH
August 10th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
HI Alex - The full model No is ICL50 if that helps. It is bizarre as there is nothing that does not appear to be functioning correctly. Did the details from Device Manager not give you any clues ? I hate just not being able to close out the issue properly and whilst it does not seem to be effecting me now I wonder if it may do in the future ? Just hate being beaten !! Cheers.
August 10th, 2008 at 4:13 am
I’ve got another problem: I’ve installed xp from the cd I made using nlite, but this xp isn’t complete. I don’t have for example windows media player and windows looks like win 98. what should I do? I don’t have any idea
please help,
marta
August 9th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
I have given up!
The simple conclusion is that the broadcom BCM94312MCG cannot work with XP.
I have tried over 30 drivers as suggested from others and found myself over a period of weeks and get no recognition of this hardware.
I emailed broadcom and they said they dont make any drivers and to see Acer. Acer have not replyed to any emails.
I took the WLan card from my other laptop (intel ProWireless) and it worked instantly. Im now going to spend $45 and buy a new card.
Thanks for all your ideas and suggestions.
John.
August 9th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Work great thank you veryyyyyyy much
August 9th, 2008 at 5:42 am
I treid everything as dicribed above. Windows XP pro works, all drivers ar installed, but i don’t have wireless working. it still keeps saying that the card is not installes. Broadcom had installes the wirred internet, bu the atherios driver for wireless wont work.
i have a Acer aspire 5315 model no ICL50. the wireless buildin card is BCM94312MCG with FCC ID: QDS-BRCM1028, the label says ANATEL
how can i install a driver fot this transmitter module so that i can use the wireless internet ???
kind regards,
richard
the netherlands
August 9th, 2008 at 12:07 am
Excelente la guía de este tutorial, un lujo la explicación de la creación del cd para omitir el uso de diskette, muchísimas gracias, y sigan haciendo este tipo de post, realmente muy bueno!
August 8th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
Good morning
I too have a 5315-202 g12mi and pilots walk except wifi card is a broadcom bcm 94312 mcg and I can not find drivers
pourier you help me please
August 8th, 2008 at 9:33 am
Gino - no idea what to do? how about cracking open the case and writing down the Wifi card model and tossing that around a bit? have you tried the suggestions in the comment thread?
Cayce - glad it worked so well, FYI the synaptics driver package just adds functionality, I don’t use it but it lets you cut off the pad (for when you use a mouse and don’t want to hit the pad by accident) and stuff like that.
Danny - actually I don’t have anything to test the cardbus with, I figure it should be fine though… now that I think about it, why don’t you just use the built-in WiFi… while that seems to have thrown more people for a loop than anything else, everybody eventually gets it working… I hate PCMCIA cards sticking out.
john pudsey - did you try andrew’s fix? read the comment thread for it.
nico - doesn’t tell us much, can you get to safe mode or do you mean it BSOD’d after the first half of the WinXP install, so it never finished? You’ve probably got a bad disk, try starting over: make sure you dump a fresh XP CD for nLite to use, integrate the necessary drivers, burn with the “verify” checkbox checked, then start from scratch using that.
Scott - thanks for the props, glad you got something out of it.. so everything is working?
Amsterdam - yeah, good call… as mentioned in the article, these drivers were really only tested/intended for 5315-2153… that atheros.cz site does a good job breaking it down though. Like you, I trust them about as far as I can throw them, but the drivers work sooooo…
John - no. “My machine doesnt recognise that a card is even there.” then you f*cked up. maybe with the intel chipset drivers? and saying it’s a 5315 really tells very little. -which- 5315 is it? if -you- can’t see the WiFi card in the device manager, neither can -windows-.
Dave - … the full model is not “5315″. I already read your earlier post where you said it was a 5315. Obviously this is probably purely academic since everything seems to be operating properly, but I’m still curious enough to look around some. It still sounds like this is something that was created by (and should have been addressed by) one of the other driver packages, such as the chipset or realtek package. So all the driver installs definitely went smoothly?
August 8th, 2008 at 1:39 am
Hi, has anyone managed to get their wireless to operate with XP?
On an Acer 5315 with broadcom mini pci express card fitted. (BCM94312MCG).
My machine doesnt recognise that a card is even there. Have been unable to find driver that works. Is there something that needs to be done to activate wireless before if can be accessed or utilised?
Thanks.
John.
August 7th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Hi Alex - Model is acer aspire 5315
device status says :- this device is not present, is not working properly, or does not have all its drivers installed (code 24)
details under serial properties are:-
device instance id……..root\legacy_serial000
service……serial
enumerator……root
devnode flags……..dn_root_enumerated..dn_has_problem..dn_
moved..dn_disableable..dn_nt_enumerator..dn_nt_driver
[NOTE: The above line had to be moved to a 2nd line to preserve the layout –Dan]
configflags……configflag_reinstall
current power state……D3
power capabilities…………..pdcap_d0_supported…….pdcap_d3_supported
power state mappings………..s0->d0….s1->d3….s2->d3….s3->d3….s4->d3….s5->d3
hope this helps.
August 7th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
Alex,
Great work, obviously you know your business!!
My grandson was crying over VISTA so I decided to put on XP pro and use your guidelines. He has a model Aspire 5315 050508Mi-model ICL50 (EMEA model probably).
All your drivers work (Agere modem driver installs fine but have not tried it yet), but I did NOT install the Wireless Driver after reading about many problems people run into. So I had to find a good and working driver for the “Atheros AR5007EG Wireless Network Adapter”. Found an excellent overview here: http://www.atheros.cz/. Be patient. It takes some time before it starts downloading. Do a viruscheck on all the files you download. This driver is working great!
TIP: Before removing VISTA, make a print of the Device Manager details ! That will save you time finding your EXACT model/type driver.
Warm regards from Happy Amsterdam
August 6th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
No consigo descargar el empowering, tengo una acer 5520-5908, pero no consigo el empowering, esta notebook originalmente trae win vista, pero lo cambie a xp.. necesito que me ayuden porfacor.
August 6th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Great Crack!!! Thanks you soo much I have been trying to get rid of that vista crap for months!! Now i finally have XP and my very own boot disc (Since those buggers in PC world didnt supply one!!! :@
Great Job!! thanks again
August 6th, 2008 at 9:04 am
Hi guys,
i’ve read the instructions and did what it said and, XP did install.
but when the laptop restarted there was a error message right after you see the XP logo. but the laptop restarted fast so, i could’nt read the message.
do you got anny idea? it’s an acer 5315-050508Mi i got this number off of the back of the laptop.
i hope that you can help me
kind regards
Nico
August 6th, 2008 at 8:23 am
Dave - is there any other info under Details in the properties for that device in the device manager? usually there’s a drop-down menu with several options to display. Hardware ID’s would be handy (maybe). What is the full model of your Acer?
August 5th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Hi Alex - Yes it is odd. It all seems to be working and yet the error still shows. I have tried unistalling and rebooting and the same issue appears. Im stumped !
August 5th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Dave - how strange. in the normal (Devices by Type) view, it’s still present? I can’t even imagine what it would be, other than possibly a broken bit driver for something _else_ from one of the other device-driver installs. So… everything’s working? Video, Audio, Modem, WiFi, LAN, etc?
You could highlighting the device, right clicking and uninstalling it… see if it comes back after a refresh/scan-for-new-devices?
August 5th, 2008 at 1:12 am
Hi Alex - All the +’s were definitely expanded and it was not there. Just dissappeared !
August 4th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
I am installing Windows XP SP3 to Acer Aspire 5570Z, and dont to installing to Empowering Technology.
Please, somebody know how to install this ? or guive me a site ?
August 4th, 2008 at 11:30 am
Dave - try clicking the pluses to expand the tree, dig through until you find the (!), I -think- it should be in there -somewhere-, heh.
Alex - what letter does it assign to the optical drive? honestly, the only way I know to deal with your issue is to temporarily disconnect the cables to those devices. After the WinXP install of course you want to power off, plug them back in, then boot up and let WinXP detect them and give them appropriate letters. I’m pretty sure the card-reader has a cable you can reach by taking the top-panel off of the notebook (the panel on the keyboard side) which is held on with a bunch of screws from the bottom IIRC. The webcam I’m not so sure about. It’s unfortunate that there is no option in the BIOS to disable those devices. If not, you can probably find a cable for the webcam coming down from the display, obviously you’d probably find it going to the motherboard, so remove the top-panel to get at that, just like for the cardreader. if it turns out the cardreader is PCB-mounted, you could still get “all hardcore” on it and cut the power trace (5v) before the install and install a dip-switch or jumper or something so you can cut it on and off at will (with the notebook disassembled, heh)… w/out power it should be the same as unplugging it.
August 3rd, 2008 at 2:00 pm
I am installing Windows XP to Acer Aspire 2920. Aspire 2920 has a card-reader and a webcam. During installation, Windows assigns the letter “C:” to the card-reader, the letter “D:” to webcam, and the letter “E:” to the Windows home drive. How can I force Windows to install itself to the drive C: and push the card-reader and webcam letter?
Unfortunately, I can not disable the card-reader and the webcam in BIOS (there is no such option in the Aspire 2920 BIOS)
August 3rd, 2008 at 9:42 am
Bom Dia. Comprei um ACER ASPIRE 5315-2713 e veio como Win Vista e desejo instalar o Win XP mas, nao tenho os Drivers para XP. Alguem pode mi ajuadar, mandando os drivers ou indicando um modelo que tem os mesmos drivers. Consegui os drivers do 5315-5123, pode ser usado no meu….desde já, o meus agradecimentos.
August 3rd, 2008 at 6:49 am
hi,
all went well but cannot get wireless to work?
mine machine is a acer 5315 and the wiress is a broadcom BCM94312MCG.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
August 3rd, 2008 at 6:28 am
hi using the cd method to put xp on my acer 5315 but when i input the product id its saying its invalid why? as ive used it on my home pc and it was fine!
August 3rd, 2008 at 3:44 am
Excelent. This work wary well. This is one vary easy way to create WindowsXP CD for Accer ASPIRE 5315. Tks.
August 2nd, 2008 at 1:36 am
Привет! Перествили Висту на ХР на лэптоп ACER 5315. Есть проблемма с раббочим столом. Когда ставлю фото ошо вытягивается по ширине.Помогите решить проблемму.Спасибо
August 2nd, 2008 at 1:26 am
Привет! Переставили виндовс Виста на ХР на лэптоп ACER5315. Есть проблемма с раббочим столом. Когда ставлю фото , то оно вытягивается в ширину. Помогите исправить эту проблемму. Спасибо.
August 1st, 2008 at 6:48 pm
thanks sooooooooooo much, it works for me.
August 1st, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Salut
SVP veuillez m’envoyé le téléchargement des pilotes de l’odinateur Portable marque Acer aspire 5050 ou un n’autre qui peux le conrespondre.
Je vous en pris de m’aider
Merci
ADAM
Mobile: 00228 9220608
August 1st, 2008 at 9:58 am
these drivers worked perfectly on windows xp sp2 installed
on acer aspire 5315 australian laptop(exact model: 5315-301G08MI
July 31st, 2008 at 1:25 am
I just wanted to express how much I appreciate the information on this page… I now have a very fast XP laptop!!!
July 29th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
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July 29th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Hello all … need driver Xp for Acer Aspire 5315-2780… pls in ispecial “waireless”
July 29th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
I have problem, my Wireless Cardbus Adapter, D-Link Notebook Adapter”AirPlus G DWL-G630″ not recognize by my Acer Asipire.
I was “upgrade” froem Vista HB to XP.
Is this problem with Cardbus Controller or somthing else?
Please, somebody know how to fix this situation ?
Which driver i need?
Please, help!
July 29th, 2008 at 8:18 am
Alex & Crew -
WooHoooooo !! This works great! The 5315-2077 is now an XP laptop, and the Synaptics Touchpad worked without even installing the driver. Fan working okay, so far. The only slight hitch I ran into was that even though I’d added the .net package to the nLite CD, it still wanted a fresh download, so I got .Net Framework 2.
Thanks for making this daunting task EASY !!
July 29th, 2008 at 1:01 am
Hi Guys -
This looks like an excellent project, am trying it on myAcer Aspire 5315-2077. so far it is installing and has just re-booted to a wonderful Windows XP Pro screen!
Will write again soon with progress update.
Many thanks to you for defeating Acer and Micro$oft!
July 28th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Some network controller is not recognized by XP hence no WiFi. None of the Atheros drivers I tried were compatible with 5315-2153. Everything else got installed perfectly. I’ve no idea wtf to do with retarded WiFi controller.
July 28th, 2008 at 7:18 am
It is good to install Launch manager too.
It shows on screen picture, when you press some special buttons, like wifi, volume, key E, etc.
Instalation program is on CD which you get with notebook.
July 28th, 2008 at 7:14 am
Thanks for all the tremedous work for this web page.
All the drivers but one (Wifi) were right for my acer 5315. Thanks to Andrew (mail july 24th) for the ref for Wifi and modem. All is ok now.
July 28th, 2008 at 4:03 am
well done mates works great on my aspire 5315
July 28th, 2008 at 3:18 am
Merci beaucoup pour ce site,
J’ai pu depanné mon acer extensa 5220,
grace a la methode de BALA.
Merci encore BALA
maintenant mon portable n’a plus de problem, et
fonctionne a merveille.
July 27th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
This works with 5315-2274 Model
July 27th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
thanks Bala,
my problem was the audio, I followed your instructions
and all work well
thank you
July 27th, 2008 at 11:53 am
internet and cd burner with the same slipstream drivers, can work for notebook Acer Extensa 5220?
July 27th, 2008 at 5:56 am
moi j’ai un acer extensa 5220portable, version DOS, le magasin a mis xp pro sp2 a ma demande.
tout fonctionne sauf le son, pas d’audio. j’installe realtek hd audio a partir du cd et meme a partir de celui que j’ai telecharge, mais a la finition j’ai le message d’erreur ” install realtek audio failed” et le gestionaire de peripherique il y a un pont d’exlamation jaune ” realtek hd drivers are not installed code 28″. manuellement aussi ca ne passe pas.
veuillez m’aider rectifier ce problem
je vous remercie
July 27th, 2008 at 5:14 am
if any body got problem ofter this then take a shovel and go to your job this is more then enugh.
cheers i really apriciate your job.
thanking and best regards,
sultan.
July 26th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Thank you very much, I have exactly Aspire 5315 and description of installation is perfect for this model. Good Job. Cheers.
July 26th, 2008 at 11:03 am
Thanks, Alex! Everything works just fine.
July 26th, 2008 at 2:55 am
Hi Alex - When I view by “Devices by Connection” the line “Serial” and yellow circle with exclamation mark dissapears ?
July 25th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Dave - in the Device Manager, use the View menu to switch from “Devices by Type” to “Devices by Connection” and give us an idea of the tree that leads out to that serial device.
neodrone - sorry I can’t really guarantee anything for you. The fact that the Vista Restore DVDs won’t burn seems to be a bad sign to me. If you can successfully back up to an external HDD with Ghost 11 you may be OK, who knows though.
July 25th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
tnk’s, my brother….. very good post…..
July 25th, 2008 at 7:31 am
RAMA, insert your acer driver cd then follow the instruction from there,…
July 25th, 2008 at 5:56 am
man this works properly.
thanks very much.
July 24th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
hi, sooo alex,kokane Says:
July 20th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
hi i install xp on my aspire 5315.
but i couldn’t find the network controller dirver.
can anyone post a “how to” install the driver.
otherwise my wlan dont work. i press the button, but it dont work.
maybe i need the network controller driver installed first.
kokane..
July 24th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Have just finally downgraded to XP from Vista with the help of this site. Great site so may thanks. All seems fine except for Non Plug & Play Serial Device error ? Details show ROOT\LEGACY_SERIAL000 ? ANy help wou dbe much appreciated. Cheers.
July 24th, 2008 at 8:04 am
Thanks, worked like a charm for my 5315-202G12Mi!
I did the install via CD burner Method (slipstreamed SP3 and the SATA drivers into the XP installation) and installed the drivers from the provided zipfiles in the suggested order:
1. Realtek HD Audio Driver
2. Intel Chipset Driver
3. Intel Graphics Driver
4. Atheros WiFi Driver
5. Broadcom Ethernet Driver
6. Agere modem Driver
One remark on the ePower/Fan issue: my laptop was shipped with firmware 1.34 and I could not reproduce the issue. The fan came up everytime I woke the laptop up from standby.
First I had Acer Empowering Framework and Acer ePower Management from the zipfiles installed, but it gave my an annoying error message on login for non-privileged (not in administrator group) users (”Boot: Cannot find the path specified” by boot.exe).
I removed both ePower Managemen and Empowering Framework and tested with CPUBurn (http://pages.sbcglobal.net/redelm/) and SpeedFan (http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php): the fan is properly controlled and goes up as heat on the CPU does and down samewise.
So after all: a full success and MANY THANKS for providing this guidelines and zipfiles!
best regards from Austria,
Georg
July 24th, 2008 at 4:58 am
FOR EVERYONE WHO STILL HAS PROBLEMS WITH THE WIRELESS NIC!!!
First, a big thank you to Alex 4 publishing this article.
Every driver on this site worked 4 me except the wireless one. After a night of searching the internet and trying every driver out there, I found a great site with a wireless driver pack for almost everything you want. If this doesn’t solve your problem, I don’t know what will.
Go here: http://driverpacks.net/DriverPacks/download.php?pag=w
After you download it, go to Device Manager and hit update driver, giving the location of the pack to search 4 the suitable driver (you may need to burn it on a cd if it can’t search it otherwise). That’s it! I was very surprised to see that my WLAN was Broadcom, but the driver is signed for Dell! Don’t worry if this will be the case for you too. I tested it in many public Wi-FI zones and it works like a charm (it’s 802.11 g and supports 54 Mbps). One last thing, I just bought my Aspire 5315 and it’s a different submodel than Alex’s, but all the other drivers worked perfectly (2,13 Ghz processor, 2 GB DDR2, 160 GB HDD).
From Romania,
Andrew
P.S. I strongly suggest slipstriming the Sata 2 drivers to your Windows XP CD kit and using the AHCI. It may seem like a pain in the ass, but it’s really easy, I’ve done it in 5 mins. Read more about AHCI if u r not convinced it’s worth it, but ultimately think that as long as you have a new feature u may as well use it, beacause it can make the difference. I have 2 virtual machines running (1 with Win Server 2003 and 1 with Win Xp in a virtual LAN) and it can probably support at least 2 more (here the AHCI really kicks in). I am very pleased with my new notebook and surprised it can support many virtual machines to help me prepare for MCSE exams.
July 23rd, 2008 at 3:23 pm
THANK YOU! I was somewhat weary trying it with the Aspire 5315-2713 but your tutorial was great, did the the custom CD install with nLite, which worked like a charm. Again thanks for sharing.
July 23rd, 2008 at 9:28 am
Thanks, this was incredibly handy for fixing the crap OS on somebodies Acer laptop, which is otherwise a nice machine
July 22nd, 2008 at 9:31 pm
this works for the Acer aspire 5315-2681, just finished all the steps. Great job!
July 22nd, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Gracias…
El MODEM era mi problema.. y ustedes tenian la solucion.
Jorge Beltran Fuentes
Bogotá - Colombia
July 22nd, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Muito obrigado.
Tutorial exelente. 100% funcional.
O note agora está show de bola.
Abraços
July 22nd, 2008 at 2:53 pm
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July 22nd, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Hello Alex mi name is Andrei thank you very much for the tutorial and a more lot for drivers help and i think it`s was greater work but i have one big kuesstion until install xp…listen my friend give me Acer Aspire 5315 spanish for reinstall the system and put XP fovewer i was as well finding drivers kuestions and a lot of more than i done for find you tutorial, 2 days i still reading all posts and say great thanks for all but the kuestion is one i ve got big problem : when i begin do recover dvd`s with acer eRecover i ve got a problem that the burning of dvds it´s finishing with errors at 90% or sometimes at 26 %, I need do the recover of vista because if there will be some garanty problem i must restore to the fabrick settings all system so i think for use until now hiren cd 9.0 with norton ghost 11 until that reinstalation i was using it a lot of times for do back-ups and recover on my computer it but i dont have garanty if it willl working at this acer aspire 5315 with vista so i need you help : will it working acer recover or norton ghost recovering after do the back-up of all partition c: and so after recovering from the created file if i will having problems with xp instalation?
Please Alex or some one from the posts of up help me because i need reinstall system until this thirsday
Thank you very much Alex and all all all
excuse me for my poor english i am from ukraine:)
i am waiting u help
July 22nd, 2008 at 9:53 am
iae, vlw, deu certo, funciono tdo…
thank you… u help me alot…
July 22nd, 2008 at 3:22 am
hey im tryin to install xp on my aspire 5315
changes bios to ide mode, booted form cd …
i used the f6 floppy method and put the disk in the usb floppy drive.
it still asks me to choose the driver over and over again.
then it says setup is unable to load the driver,
press s to choose another driver which i did …
press enter for windows
press enter because the only way it’ll move one, all installs well until it reboots, screen says loading xp with the little roller moving, and bam! unmoutable boot device (bsod)
Help please
July 21st, 2008 at 2:57 pm
New BIOS version 1.43 is out for download.
July 21st, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Btw, the new bios is already out for download. It can be downloaded under
ftp://ftp.work.acer-euro.com/notebook/aspire_5315/vista/Bios/
File:v1.43.zip 2244 KB 21.7.2008 г. 07:40:00
July 21st, 2008 at 2:53 pm
BTW, BIOS version 1.43 is already out for download. Check it under
ftp://ftp.work.acer-euro.com/notebook/aspire_5315/vista/Bios/
File:v1.43.zip 2244 KB 21.7.2008 г. 07:40:00
July 21st, 2008 at 4:53 am
this is great it works for me, thanks guys,
July 20th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
hi i install xp on my aspire 5315.
but i couldn’t find the network controller dirver.
can anyone post a “how to” install the driver.
otherwise my wlan dont work. i press the button, but it dont work.
maybe i need the network controller driver installed first.
kokane..
July 20th, 2008 at 6:44 am
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July 19th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
I have 5315-2122 model No ICL50. Following tutorial, I successfully installed XP using the slipstream method,I tweaked my brand new Aspire 5315 to XP.Everythign is installed and working fine though!
Thanks a lot, everything worked perfectly!
Wanted to say thank you for providing these drivers.
BTW,no overheating problem, my bios v.1.42.
My specs
ACER 3515-2122
Intel celeron M 2.0GHz 550 FSB 1MB L2 cache,
Bio v.1.42
XP Home W/Service Pack 3
1 gig ddr2 RAM
80GB HDD
July 19th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
problem driver acer aspire 5720z…pls link download driver
10x ppl
July 19th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Hi, I change the SO vista to XP, everything it´s working except the wireless connection when it has key. When i try to enter the key, I see this message: “La contraseña de red debe ser de 40 bits o 104 bits dependiendo de la configuracion de red, puede escribirse 5 o 13 caracteres, asc11, o 10 o 26 caracteres hexadecimales”.
Can you help me please,
Thanks!
PS: If the wirelless connection hasn´t key everything work Ok.
July 18th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
top bloke , thanks for a great solution to a frustrating issue. thanks dude
July 18th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
speaking of BIOS updates… i’ve tested 1.42 for 3 weeks with no problems….
that means 1.43 is on the way (may be inside my PC already)
need help w/ a 5315… check this link….
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=251959
July 18th, 2008 at 7:50 am
@ Alex & Everybody else
Maybe it is a nice idea to include in the tutorial, a how to update the BIOS version under DOS. In general, how to make a dos bootable cd?
The reason is the following. And there are many people having the same BIOS Update failure problem under VISTA, and then many headaches.
The description of the problem is the following: “…I’ve downloaded the BIOS update from Acer’s website. Closed all programs, disabled the antivirus and went to flash it. Right after clicking start I get a Verify Error and the system freezes and is a dead unit….”
And the solution is the following, Disconnect battery and Ac adapter
Connect USB Floppy drive or a USB Flash Drive or insert a Cd(whichever u choose).
Press [Fn]+[Esc] and plug In the Ac Power adapter, and then press Power button.
Release the buttons. Notebook should read the crisis disk. There will be no sounds, no beeps. It took about 2-3 minutes and notebook powered down itself.
Then plug in the battery simply power it on.
That’s all. Now normal screen appears and acer is alive.
Link to the needed file http://www.theeldergeek.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=27601&st=20 under the post from johndp2 .
So please include just a short tutorial, not to have the same problems as me, and then, so much stress about the update under vista, when it is much easier to do it under DOS.
July 18th, 2008 at 4:21 am
I better say my thx to the wonderful tutorial. Had a bit of problem with the sound but tried ‘win xp sp2′ like this website said and had no problems since. Thx
July 17th, 2008 at 11:55 am
Great, really great explanation. Thanks.
My Acer Aspire 5315-202G12Mi came with installed Linpus Linux OS.
My question is the problem with the FAN resolved till the newest BIOS version 1.42 or it is still there and I should consider using the given i8kfan program.
Thanks in advance, and keep the good work. BTW is the tutorial updated to give the links to the latest drivers, or there are no newer drivers simply.
July 16th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Thanks to Alex for an excellent how to!
Just wanted to point out for people with the Acer 5315-101G08MI, the wifi is Broadcom and takes the driver alex listed in the comments.
The link was http://www.acerpanam.com/synap…211bg_Broadcom_v4.2.2.7.zip
July 16th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Driver pack was the biggest help - Thanks!!
July 16th, 2008 at 10:08 am
hi to all,
does it only work for 5315-2153 or all 5315 models?
got 5315-2122, model ICL50
10x
July 16th, 2008 at 10:05 am
hi to all,
does it only work for 5315-2153 or all 5315 models?
got 5315-2122 Model-ICL50
10x
July 15th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Janko, check this comment, there might be others too, just try page searching (usually CTRL+F) for “over” as in “overheat.” Pretty sure that problem has been solved in the comment thread…
Patrick, thanks man…
July 15th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
I just wanted to see is there some solution for overheating?Cooler looks fine to me but still it feels like it burning…thanks in advance
July 15th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
hola me e comprado un
acer aspire 5315-2780
y al momento de averle instalado el sistema operativo windows xp
tube problemas con el driver de wifi
el momento de averlo descargado de esta pagina y luego instlarlo dice ke no son
compatibles
si alguien me consiguera el driver se lo agradeceria mucho
July 15th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
To Scorp from Russia : I believe this procedure is valid for all Acer Aspire 5315 laptops (the other references are just the variations in terms of installed processor, language, keyboard, etc.). Mine is an Acer Aspire 5315 200508Mi, and it worked fine.
с уважением
July 15th, 2008 at 11:28 am
Hello! I’m from Russia, so excuse me for my english! I bought Acer Aspire 5315 201G12Mi yesterday. Does these methods of installing XP good for my notebook?
July 15th, 2008 at 9:43 am
You are a god for putting this together,thank you.
I followed the easy to understand instructions and i only had 1 problem which i think i could’ve sorted out later and that was when i created a partition that was the only 1 recognised when i opened my computer so i was missing about 40gig so i reinstalled and had the whole 80gig,i then installed all the drivers,i needed net framework 1.1 to install acer empowering framework,apart from that the installation went smoothly and everything seems to work fine but will let you know if there are any problems later,thanks again.
Steve
July 15th, 2008 at 3:15 am
I didn’t have any problems with vista but thought about dual booting with XP but never got round to it.4 days ago vista updated 3 files which screwed up the bootloader,i hadn’t made a back up disc because i didn’t realise the files were there,hidden.i followed some tutorials on how to sort out the bootloader problem but that just made things worse and now (hopefully) this tutorial has made up my mind to just install XP.I’ll post when i finish the installation to let you all know how it goes,thanks.
July 14th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
It’s a great job from a entusiast mind.
Thanks for all help.
From Brazil.
July 14th, 2008 at 1:26 am
Giday Guys. I would like to say thanks for the info and step by step procedure for removing this Vista rubbish on Acer Aspire 5315. XP Pro is running like a dream! Now my question is:
All drivers worked except for the Intel Chipset Driver for SM-Bus Controller. I tried to install via Device manager the same way as the Broadcom Driver but to na avail, i had also “clicked” the set-up in the driver folder but to no avail either. This driver i believe monitors the temprature and battery. Is there a driver available for reverting this model Acer back to XP-Pro?
Thanks any info would be great. Christo