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.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 25th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
tanks for info
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 22nd, 2008 at 3:52 pm
There is also easy way Fn+F5
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 21st, 2008 at 7:17 pm
could anyone link me to the R1.71 ver. 5443 drivers?
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 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 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 8:03 am
Walker - Thanks for the help. IT WORKED!!! Thank you too Bob.
February 21st, 2008 at 7:51 am
Btw, i can’t get S-video / TV-out to work…
February 21st, 2008 at 7:49 am
The Acer Panam site from earlier posts should have webcam drivers
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 5:14 am
Thank you for existing. Viorel Romania
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 13th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
AYEE, worked. :]
Thank you so much.
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 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 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 12:37 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 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 12th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
PS this only happens once every few months.
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 5:29 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 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 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 11th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Seshy,
Yes, read earlier posts, but seems the driver is not there…
February 11th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
apparently I have the 5315-050508Mi model, any sound solutions yet?
February 11th, 2008 at 7:21 am
Hi
I have problem in sound card driver(Acer laptop aspire 5315
thanks
Yassir
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 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 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 11:08 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 10:00 am
Thanks so much.you have made my lappy so much better with this tut
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 8th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Great article, thanks!
It helps a lot
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 11:39 am
Thank you for all of these information!!! My “acer” now work very well!!!
February 8th, 2008 at 11:04 am
Tanks! It works! I’ve tried and everything just did right
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.