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.
July 13th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
I forgot to say that the Connexant modem driver I used is specified for Vista, but it seems to work fine with XP.
July 13th, 2008 at 4:56 am
I bought simultaneously two identical ACER 5315 in a shop. Nothing indicated that they might be different. But when “upgrading” them from Vista to XP, I realized that one had an Ambit modem, and the other a Connexant modem. I did not find anywhere any indication of the type of modem installed. The only way I found out was to try to install drivers one after the other until one worked.
There seems to be at least three types of modems : Agere, Ambit and Connexant. And there may be other brands out there…
So, if your modem driver fails, just try another.
Anyway, upgrading to XP is well worth the trouble. Feels a bit like changing from a donkey to a race horse…
July 13th, 2008 at 3:43 am
excelent
sou brasileiro e este quebrou meu galho muito bom esse tutorial
July 12th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
You’re AMAZING man!
It also works for 5720(Z) series (tested with two notebooks, and both worked properly).
July 12th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Great job on the audio driver. It was the last one I needed. The aspire 5315 out-of-the-box runs Vista quite poorly! But it does seem pretty good for XP. Aside from the audio, I was able to get all of the necessary drivers from acer’s site. I do not recommend any of the WI-FI apps. that are on there site. Simply install the driver and let Windows manage the connection!
July 12th, 2008 at 10:38 am
Thank you. I bought the $348 Walmart pre-Black Friday special back in November 2007 and my wife has suffered with Vista for far too long. I didn’t want to go to XP because some sites seemed to advise that reflashing the bios was necessary, and I was afraid of bricking the machine. But your guide is wonderful and got the job done. Now we have a stable OS and I don’t have to spend hours a week trying to get Vista to do things that XP can do for us with no hassle. And of course the speed of this little box on XP versus Vista (even with the 2GB RAM I put in) is well worth the effort by itself.
July 11th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Thank you for this drivers…:P i need for the pc of my family… TY TY TY TY ….i love you……:D
July 11th, 2008 at 7:22 am
5315-2290 work with same drivers
July 11th, 2008 at 7:01 am
I found the instructions straightforward and easy to follow, created a slipstreamed XP Pro installation disk and easily did the installation. I wish all instructions were as thorough and easy to follow as yours are!
July 10th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
Does anyone know which of the ATT wireless card would work with the Acer 4720Z. We a re tring not to use the ones with the usb we would like to use the slot type.
July 10th, 2008 at 10:39 am
Thanks for the link Dan I will try to download and use it.
Cheers,
Saroj
July 9th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Saroj, for DVD RW software you can try ImgBurn @ http://www.imgburn.com/ …
July 9th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
THIS WORKED GREAT!!
I used a winxp disc which had SP3 integrated. Everything works so good!!
And comp is so much faster.
HATE VISTA
July 9th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Hi Dan,
Thanks for your response. I didn’t copy and paste that folder (RETAIL) on to the XP_Temp folder in order to create a bootable CD. I am now installing XP on my ACER without the ‘RETAIL’ folder and so far I haven’t received any error messages. It looks fine…
thanks for replying to my thread.
btw - do you know if there is any DVD RW software available for this laptop?
Thanks,
Saroj
July 9th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
the agere modem instructions worked great on an Acer Aspire 5315 with XP Home SP3
no more modem device on high definition audio bus
Suprb - thanks
July 9th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Saroj, not sure what’s up with the copy and paste thing, it ought to work… could you please paste the exact error you’re running into, verbatim, and we’ll help look into that for you?
Also, wanted to send out a notice about the recent addition of the Digg link at the top of the tutorial… totally didn’t think to put one of those from the get go, but there are 3 Diggs at the time of this comment posting
July 9th, 2008 at 8:23 am
Tengo una Acer 5315-2888, instale win xp sp3 y no me funciona la tarjeta de red inalambrica, es una broadcom bcm4310. Necesito una solucion. Gracias
July 9th, 2008 at 4:42 am
Hi Alex,
Just realised that I am not allowed to copy and paste the ‘text’ from this page.
The step I was talking about it - when you local the XP CD location and the temp XP folder, I get the message that RETAIL folder couldn’t be found.
Thanks,
Saroj
Oxford
July 9th, 2008 at 4:38 am
Dear Alex,
On this step <<<<>>>>>
I am getting a message staying that ‘RETAIL’ folder couldn’t be found on the XP CD, but if I browse the CD the folder is there. I have tried couple of times but getting the same message, however I am still able to make a XP boot cd following your instructions.
I am just wondering if it will make any difference when I install XP on my ACER laptop.
Thank you very much for your time and help.
Cheers,
Saroj,
Oxford
July 7th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
MUITOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
DRIVER TOTALMENTE FUNCIONAIS!!!!
GZ GZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
July 7th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Сажите, где достать драйвер к контроллеру SM-шины? Стоко страниц перелопатил ничего не нашёл. Помогите!!!
July 6th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
now, i went to bios and of course changed the hdd settings to ide mode… and boot up sequence to dvd 1st.
i created and booted from tinyxp, work like a charm, installed all drivers as well.
same with win2k - and if you are using win2k, it will work with cameras as well on winxp! use drivers for win2k on xp and it will work as charm!
July 6th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
Hi Alex, I have a bit of problem and I was hoping you may be able to help me out, I have the acer laptop in discussion and need to put Windows 2000 Pro on it. This is need to for compatability of software I use to program digital cameras after repairs. I dont need anything to work except for cdrom, usb ports, and decent resolution. Can you point me in the direction of the drivers i could use to get this installed?
Hope you can help,
Thank you,
Simon.
July 6th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Necesito una ayuda, tengo una acer aspire 5315-2142, a la cual no le funciona la opción de combinación de teclas “Fn+F6″, que es la opción que permite oscurecer el monitor pero el equipo permanece encendido, no se como habilitarla. si me pueden ayudar se los agradezco.
July 6th, 2008 at 9:01 am
It work very well!!! Thanks a lot!!!
Funciona mesmo!!! Muito Obrigado!!!
July 6th, 2008 at 6:11 am
Aspire 5315 Heat problem !!
I have such a laptop and it came with vista…Vista suck’s for my laptop so i thought why not XP… mucho faster!!!
but my laptop got warm and overheated… resulting in a system shutdown.
Problem was that the CPU FAN was not running properly. the bios wasn’t backwards compatible.. i made a boot disk and put the “proper” bios update on in …. (the 1.4 version of vista…@#$%???) But now it works !!!
link: http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/notebook/as_5315.html
and choose the 1.4 Vista Bios.
Good Luck…
Ps: Dont forget that the bios settings are back to default after flashing….
So maybe write stuff down ok….
July 5th, 2008 at 10:58 am
Thank you so much alex, just want to let you know that i ‘ve sucessfuuly use your drivers and method to install driver for XP in acer aspire one except ethernet. But I’m more than happy with it now, thanks a million
July 5th, 2008 at 8:57 am
First of all a large f**k to acer corporation, because they do not provide windows xp drivers for acer aspire 5315.
Here my friends you have a link for all drivers for model: Acer ASPIRE 5315-302G18Mi | Intel Celeron 460, VGA Intel x3100, 2 GB DDR2, LAN BroadCom, Wireless BroadCom Chipset, 160 hdd)
http://mihd.net/bq9rvs3 , aprox 22 MB, all drivers ripped with My Drivers, you will need to install with update wizard from device manager, each device, the order is this:
1. Audio Driver
2. Modem Driver
3. VGA Driver
4. WiFi Driver
5. LAN Driver.
My windows was: Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3. (Microsoft original ISO release that one that doesn’t have integrated Internet Explorer 7 and Windows Media Player 11).
Thanks
July 3rd, 2008 at 9:33 pm
BIOS version 1.42 should be out anyday now…..
it works excellent on 5315’s fixes all the previous issues i’ve ran into in past BIOS versions..
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=251959
good source of INFO on the 5315…
got a question…. post it there… you will get an answer
bigO
July 3rd, 2008 at 10:56 am
. Reboot in safe mode
2. Open device manager
3. Go under system devices
4. Disable (DO NOT UNINSTALL) the Microsoft UAA driver.
5. Reboot in safe mode (This is so that driver will not load)
6. Open device manager
7. Go under system devices
8. Now… uninstall the Microsoft UAA driver. This will also remove the Realtek.
9. Reboot to Windows XP or Vista.
10. Install the Realtek drivers without letting windows install it.
Reboot normally and enjoy
July 3rd, 2008 at 10:53 am
Install Realtek HD Audio Driver Failure !! [Error Code : -0001]
what I did incase anybody else needs to know.
1. Reboot in safe mode
2. Open device manager
3. Go under system devices
4. Disable (DO NOT UNINSTALL) the Microsoft UAA driver.
5. Reboot in safe mode (This is so that driver will not load)
6. Open device manager
7. Go under system devices
8. Now… uninstall the Microsoft UAA driver. This will also remove the Realtek.
9. Reboot to Windows XP or Vista.
10. Install the Realtek drivers without letting windows install it.
Reboot normally and enjoy
July 3rd, 2008 at 2:15 am
Shane, champion effort with the Broadcom wireless card. DL’d the driver you found & works like a charm.
Cheers mate.
July 2nd, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Other hint - try turning off your wireless adapter before installing. It sometimes helps.
July 2nd, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Got it working.
The driver shows as a BCM94312 driver. If you have linux easy to find.
I downloaded the following from dell R174291.exe - ran it, ignored the fact it claims to be for a dell card (it is really a rebranded broadcom) and installed it.
It works and comes with the Broadcom wireless manager runnnig all I need.
HTH
Shane
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:32 pm
http://www.acerpanam.com/synapse/forms/AcerDrivers/Aspire%205315.pdf?CFID=1955508&CFTOKEN=17036918 has pdf with list of all drivers, their alternatives and locations to download zips.
Also http://www.acerpanam.com/synapse/forms/acerdrivers.cfm
allows you to look up all models and get a pdf with driver locations in them.
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:32 pm
http://www.acerpanam.com/synapse/forms/AcerDrivers/Aspire%205315.pdf?CFID=1955508&CFTOKEN=17036918 has pdf with list of all drivers, their alternatives and locations to download zips.
Also http://www.acerpanam.com/synapse/forms/acerdrivers.cfm
allows you to look up all models and get a pdf with driver locations in them.
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:25 pm
Hi,
and XP.
In New Zealand and Australia our Aspire 5315 comes with a broadcom bcm4315 wireless. The drivers found above dont work for those models. Will keep exploring but left this note incase other australasians find the same aspire wireless problem. I’ll post if I find a fix or compatible wirelss driver. broadcom and acer dont have dribvers for the bcm4315
July 2nd, 2008 at 10:49 am
Thanks for putting this together,,,,it made my crappy vista machine,,,,,roar with speed with xp!,you guys are da bomb!
July 1st, 2008 at 11:12 pm
Acer 5315-201G08Mi - XP Wireless Error..
Hi there forum members, I was wondering if any one else has had the same problem?
XP has been successfully installed on this system and seems to run very nicely compared to Vista Home Basic. The only driver that I can not get to function correctly is the wireless card. Some versions of the 5315 come with an Atheros card but this model seems to have the Broadcom wireless card installed.
The drivers I could find start to install the driver and on completion reports back an error in initialising the card. It appears in the hardware list under the networking group but with the yellow exclamation mark.
Just keen to see if anyone else has achieved success with this install.
Many thanks.
June 30th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Just a thought - saw someone on the list had problems where after formatting the hard drive the XP install couldn’t read drivers from floppy.
In the old days of DOS, after format was run you had to reload your command.com as it had been dropped from memory. XP is similar. After format you need to reload drivers from the floppy disk - now here is the catch. You might have seen the floppy, if it is a USB floppy 9and it will be for an aspire laptop) when you boot as the aspire allows xp to bring it up. However after aformat XP has lost the ability to see the usb floppy drive and needs to reload a driver to see from (you guessed it) a floppy drive. some USB floppy drives work natively (e.g .HP) but my sony USB floppy drive and others wont after the formatting of hard drives.
A second catch, Getting drivers offf a floppy disk, even if you can se the floppy disk, does not always work on a floppy that was formatted at the factory. these have a serial of 0000000 on the disk. You need to use floppy disks which have been formatted by Windows, not the factory, to avoid having errors reading drivers from a floppy disk during Win XP install. Insane? Yep! But that is the truth of it.
You have just benefitted from a 40 hour night mare trying to get an HP ML 330 formatted and installed. if you can , slip stream if you are losing connectivty to your drivers on the floppy disk part way through an install.
shane
June 30th, 2008 at 11:38 am
hola me podrian ayudar??? necesito saber como recuperar todas las particiones o bien si alguien tiene alguna copia de la acer aspir 5315/2529 original de fabrica ya q elimine todas las particiones y no se como recuperarlas. este venia con win vista starters. se agradece de antemano.
June 30th, 2008 at 11:35 am
thx men
June 27th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Gonna give it a shot. Looks like it has a great success rate!
Well, here goes nothing……
June 27th, 2008 at 10:03 am
Muito bom este artigo, ajudou-me bastante com o n lite.
Abcs
June 27th, 2008 at 5:53 am
Alex: lo primero es lo primero y por eso … gracias!!!
En segundo lugar quiero dejar mi grano de arena diciendo que no tuve que instalar ningun driver para xp, solo modifique el BIOS cambiando el modo (IDE a SATA); en mi Aspire 5315-2608 y todos los driver funcionaron de maravillas!
Nuevamente… GRACIAS!!!
Saludos!
June 26th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
NO PUDE INSTALAR LA TARJETA DE RED DEL ACER ASPIRE 4315
ADEMAS ME TOCO BAJAR DE LA PGINA DE ACER EL DRIVER DE MODEM
June 26th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
i have Acer Extensa 5210 and i didn’t find anything on the web like this page explaining of how to downgrade your OS to XP
Including Two Methods and Step by Step Explaining
This is Proffessional Perfection
it worked like heaven
Thank You,
June 26th, 2008 at 7:12 am
Thanks!
June 24th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Never mind, I finaly got it working… If someone else got the same problem try searching for a driver sp37950.exe on google…
the info on site is great, thanks..:)
June 24th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Hey…
Got this Acer 5315 and chosed to convert it to XP… Now all other drivers worked well, but I still get the “Ethernet controller” with a yellow question mark under device manager… Anyone got it working?.
thanks
June 24th, 2008 at 4:37 am
hi ahmed
i think u need the xp’s driver for your wireless.u can get that with a link towards the top of this page. but i want u to let me know how u have installed ur xp.
tx
June 23rd, 2008 at 10:28 pm
hi
i just bought brand new
Acer Aspire 5315 with lunix os on it was able to install win xp sp2 on the notebook but so far i am unable to install the built in wireless wlan card on the note book the cd comes with the notebook got 3 diffrent dirfers broadcom , atheon , intel so far the system install it as broadcom but alwayes got this yellow execlmaistion mark in device manger and not working . please help me what to do to make the wi fi work…
Thanks
June 23rd, 2008 at 4:57 pm
hi
that’s me again try to solve my problm with acer aspire 5315 in english.
at all i just want to remove vista by installing xp.i tried with xp cd but unsuccessfuly and then i tried to instal another vista with vista cd but the
Dell’s brand one.after that i just had an error message.since i can’t start anymore.
i’ve changed later,in the bios, SATA into IDE but nothing;i can’t start anymore ,i just hav a dark screen!!help please!
June 23rd, 2008 at 4:35 pm
slt
g 1 blm urgen avec acer aspire 5315.
g voulu formaté vista avec un cd xp mè ca passpa.g ensuite ésèyé avec cd vista de chez Dell mè g u k1 mesaj dereur aprè avoir refè lè partitions.mènan il dmar mèmplu.
dans le bios g changé SATA en IDE mè ca dmar tjr pa
aidez moi please!
June 23rd, 2008 at 11:45 am
Hello, i’m having some troubles here, i just updated my bios to 1.40, now my fan don’t work anymore on Windows XP. I used only to use Notebook Hardware Control to control it, but now nothing seens to work. Can anyone help me?
Ps.: I updated because i want the fan to work when i move to linux.
June 23rd, 2008 at 8:15 am
Tenks xD you help me a lot =D cya
June 23rd, 2008 at 6:14 am
thank you for this extraordinary help. this page was very useful for me, and for many others i guess. you’ve done a great job with this!
June 23rd, 2008 at 4:30 am
Can you tell me if this method works with Acer Aspire 7520G series?
June 22nd, 2008 at 12:52 am
i have tried to lod a sp2 cd by using Modifying the BIOS Settings and it does not works
June 21st, 2008 at 7:27 pm
Hi, Alex!
I would like to request you to help me. I´ve got Aspire 5720ZG-2A1G16Mi. I want to install XP Profesional if possible.
I did everything step by step as you wrote.
-sata mode changed to IDE
-XP install with RAID/AHCI drivers (nLite emulation)
-C and D deleted and created new
-installation of Audio Realtek
-when installation complete, than I installed Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility. Everything fine.
-and than I wantet to install Intel Graphics Media Accelerator Driver for Windows XP. Here comes my troubles. After extracting files during installation jump out a window with :this computer is not up to standard for the software instalation. Installation will be closed.: Im sorry for my english
The same problem/window at installing GeForce 8400GS.
Has anybody expirience with Aspire 5720ZG-2A1G16Mi and XP???
Please help, Idont want to restore back to Vista
Thanks in advace.
robert from Slovakia
June 21st, 2008 at 4:21 pm
http://www.bioticaindia.com/bcm94312mcg.html
Is this one good for you ?
(google search “BCM94312MCG driver”)… I hope it will work ^^
June 20th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
I bought an Acer 5315-201G08Mi - and instead of the Atheros wireless it has a broadcom BCM94312MCG 802.11 adapter installed.
I have formated and installed XP as per your previous instructions and all is well except no wireless.
Can you help me with an XP driver for this WiFi Adapter please.
Thanks in advance.
BigG
June 20th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Hello, i am angentinian, i not speak english, i speak spanish, please, help.
Cuando conecto un cable a s-video y el otro extremo al tv lo veo en blanco y negro, ya trate de cambiar todas las normas y todos los modos y no lo puedo ver en colores, alguien tiene idea de que puede ser, antes con el vista se veia en colores.
June 20th, 2008 at 6:15 am
ohhh
finally it worked with vista driver on acerpanam.com the agere modem driver
thankx patrick
if you would like to visite egypt i can help you
this is my e.mail estemalek@gmail.com
thanx alot
Milad
June 20th, 2008 at 5:00 am
Hi Partick
thanx for your reply
I tried all the modem drivers like foxconn, ambit, conexant and agere but it didnt work
it shows in device manager (modem device on high defenation audio bus
i am sad cause I just bought it yesterday and I need to use the fax/modem
anyway thanx alot from Egypt
Milad
June 20th, 2008 at 3:33 am
Milad, if you tried the Agere modem driver with no success, you might want to try the Ambit modem driver
http://www.acerpanam.com..2C06_XP_WHQL.zip
I worked fine for me…
June 19th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
ohhhhhhhh
everything seems ok except the modem driver
can anyone help me
I have 5315-200508mi model icl50
thanx from Egypt
June 19th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
I tried all of the drivers and it seems it’s ok
many thanx from Egypt
June 18th, 2008 at 5:31 am
السلام عليكم حقيقتا همزين وجدت التعاريف هنا والله لو ماطاب جان مامعرفه
الف الف شكر
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thanks
June 17th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
God
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u guys are awsome this darn thingi works
Love you
Just compete the utilites all of them
dont use the floppy method
cd method is much better and if you have a
acer aspire 5315 you will have a dvd burner
June 17th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
Very small problem resolved… After a wee while the issue seems to have sorted itself out, and i8kfan is quietly operating in the background while ePower Management is telling me what’s going on temperature wise. I’ve changed out the CPU to a Duo Core T5450 this morning, and that might have had something to do with it… Operating temp before the change was around 50C, now down to 35C with a decent CPU. Fan only operating on it’s slowest speed no matter what I throw at it.
June 17th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Installed 250gb harddrive and 2gb of memory then followed these instructions with Xp Media Center 2005 was quick and easy i used the floppy method
just 1 lil question does anybody know how to increase the shared graphics lol cheers in advance
June 16th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
I’ve added i8kfan (http://www.diefer.de/i8kfan/index.html) as in Chola’s posts, and it’s helped settle the fan down to a moderate speed instead of that irritating on / off behaviour under Acer’s ePower management.
What I’m not sure I like as a result, is that there is no obvious indication anywhere on the desktop to tell me how much battery time I have left. Acer’s ePower program now has no control over any settings, and offers no information about the state of the battery.
Can anyone tell me please if there’s any way to keep the best of both programs? Have i8kfan control the fan automatically AND get battery time remaining readouts with a mouse-over?
June 16th, 2008 at 8:32 am
Just went through the same problem above with my Acer Aspire 5580 after installing Windows XP SP 2. Took me ages to get all the drivers reinstalled. The information above is excellent and spot on, pity I never saw this site before. I too have a question and hope that someone can help me. After installing XP SP2 I have now noticed that my Fn+F5 is no longer working. This usually allows me to connect my notebook to the TV when I watch movies. Can anyone please tell me how can I get this to work again. It was working perfectly before I formatted and installed XP SP 2. Any help would be much appreciated….Thx!
June 15th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Excellent , Just excellent for the time taken to provide this information .
Thankyou . All worked like a charm .
June 14th, 2008 at 6:17 am
Hi guys, i have a problem with the windows,when it’s being installed the windows requires a product key and i can’t find it anywhere….please tell me what to do
June 14th, 2008 at 6:14 am
Install the next steps for acer aspire 5315 winxp sp2 (tested on aspre 052G16Mi)
01.Intel Chipset
(http://files.soulpass.com/acer/intel_chipset_driver.zip)
02.Intel Graphics
(http://files.soulpass.com/acer/intel_graphics_driver.zip)
03.Realtek HD Audio
(http://files.soulpass.com/acer/realtek_hd_audio_driver.zip)
-Just follow the instructions for installation
-do not touch anything else
-after each installation you must restart copmuter
-when you install audio drivers restart and wait few minutes (windows must find sound card)
04.agere_modem_driver - update this drivers from device menager for modem
(http://files.soulpass.com/acer/agere_modem_driver.zip)
05.Atheros Wireless
(http://files.soulpass.com/acer/atheros_wireless.zip)
06.Broadcom Ethernet - update this drivers from device menager for Ethernet
(http://files.soulpass.com/acer/broadcom_ethernet_driver.zip)
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restart win
now you have all drivers installed
after that install
Acer Preload Security Patch for Windows XP
07.AcerLAppFix_v1.0.1.0 run the executable while in Windows XP to unregister and remove the LunchApp.ocx file
(http://www.acerpanam.com/flex/acerdrivers/bin/drivers.html?CFID=1563027&CFTOKEN=26346856)
(notebook - aspire-5315 - Acer Preload Security Patch for Windows XP)
Empowering Technology Windows XP:
08.NET Framework Ver. 2.0
(http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0856EACB-4362-4B0D-8EDD-AAB15C5E04F5&displaylang=en)
09.ETFInstaller-V2.03.2015-20060327
10.ePower_v2.0.4001_XP
11.AcerEPfm_v2.0.2007
12.ePresent_v2.0.4000_XP
13.eSetting_v2.3.4002_XP - after that restart computer
09-13 find here (http://www.acerpanam.com/flex/acerdrivers/bin/drivers.html?CFID=1563027&CFTOKEN=26346856)
-versions from travelmate series!
14.i8kfangui31 - install it for fan control, put it on automatic.
(http://www.diefer.de/i8kfan/index.html)
that is all you need for win xp sp2, enjoy
June 14th, 2008 at 5:05 am
thank a lot for link download driver ………..
June 13th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Chola, can i get what you said in english? looks like you’re saying something about getting xp on aspire 5315-2290
June 13th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
tanks your tutorial is very goooodddd fernando.
June 11th, 2008 at 11:18 am
Drajvere treba instalirati sljedecim redosljedom:
01.Intel Chipset
02.Intel Graphics
03.Realtek HD Audio
Za prva tri drajvera:
-Samo slijediti uputstva za instalaciju
-nista drugo ne dirati
-nakon svake instalacije drajvera restartovati racunar
-nakon instalacije audio drajvera potrebno je malo duze sacekati nakon restarta racunara
04.agere_modem_driver - uraditi update drajvera iz device menager-a
05.Atheros Wireless
06.Broadcom Ethernet - uraditi update drajvera iz device menager-a
—————————————
restartovati racunar
sada su drajveri instalirani i potrebono je instalirati programe
od acera za stabilniji rad laptopa i to sljedecim redoslijedom:
Acer Preload Security Patch for Windows XP
07.AcerLAppFix_v1.0.1.0 pokrenuti aplikaciju da obrise LunchApp.ocx fajl.
Empowering Technology Windows XP:
08.NET Framework Ver. 2.0
09.ETFInstaller-V2.03.2015-20060327
10.ePower_v2.0.4001_XP
11.AcerEPfm_v2.0.2007
12.ePresent_v2.0.4000_XP
13.eSetting_v2.3.4002_XP - nakon instalacije restartovati racunar
14.i8kfangui31 - program za kontrolu temperature procesora (podesiti na automatsko)
Nakon ovih instalacija racunar je spreman za rad
Sve radi odlicno 
Chola
11.06.2008
June 11th, 2008 at 10:27 am
thanks a lot, the blog is very interesting and usefull, i used the second method and my laptod works perfectly, exept the LAN ethernet, but like we say in my country: “es solo un detalle…” (it’s just a detail..), so, thanks again for the help.
June 11th, 2008 at 6:17 am
Thanks for the article.
I just buy the Acer 5315 and use your wonderfull article to move it into Xp.
All is perfect (2h30 to perform migration from Vista to Xp with full drivers configuration), my new 5315 works great in XP !
Thanks again.
Chris.
June 10th, 2008 at 11:48 am
There is one option in bios which makes that you don’t need to make special windows cd with sata driver. I don’t remember how it call, but you can change sata to ata, pata or ide or something like that. Keep looking, I found it one time and it worked.
June 10th, 2008 at 9:45 am
thanks for the article, it saved me, very informative, got xp on the laptop
thanks
June 10th, 2008 at 8:47 am
Hey.
I have an issue. After installing Xp and everything went just great.
I Notice that my computer dies sometime, without any reason.
And yes i have the electrisiti plugged in. And i have configed and checked the timer for the HDD to shutdown and such.. but still it dosent work..
And the dying is random, so it happends anytime.. Anyone know what i should do? Couse this is bothering me alot.
Aspire 5315 - 1,73Ghz - 80GB HDD - 252MB Mobile Intel
June 9th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
I am still in trouble loading XP-Home onto an Acer Aspire 4710.
This has been ongoing problem since 19/04/08.
It originally had VISTA on it
I deleted the partition using GDISK
I can install WIN98
But when I try to install XP - it says there is no hard drive.
I have followed all the intructions. The floppy disk method does not work on this system.
So I tried the CD method.
Have downloaded the drivers - the nLite the slipstream drivers etc.
It goes right through the procedure as per your instructions, but when it comes to the last instruction where it says insert blank CD and “BURN” - it doesn’t say “BURN” - it says “NEXT”
Everything then disappears of the screen and the NERO program starts up.
But I don’t know what file to burn.
Can you please enlighten me - we have been endeavouring to perform this week for nearly 3 months without any success.
Also the drivers wanted were for an ACER Aspire 4710 but the drivers appear to be for an ACER Aspire 5315 - are they the same
Regards Philip Swifte
June 9th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Hello everybody!
This weekend I’m going to be working on a friends acer’s bringing it back to XP.
This page has been very helpful for tracking all the possible problems I could be running into, cheers for Alex!
I have a question nonetheless : has anybody here tried sliptreaming more than the AHCI drivers? I mean the whole audio/graphics/wifi drivers? Did it work?
If not, well,I guess I’ll be giving feedback on that soon.
June 9th, 2008 at 1:44 am
very very good…thank you for this guide
ATENTION!! this tutorial works perfect with ACER 5715Z…with the drivers too
June 8th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
Thank you SO much for this guide.
It works so Perfect. With the drivers too.
Agan thank you so much. Now i can skip to send the computer to acer to let them do it for alot of money.
/Andreas
June 7th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Dan, you need to give us some more information about the sys & also, tell us if you installed anything new that maybe conflicting with something els
June 7th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
thanks for the start Jamie. i need to get all the other drivers now. anyone else have any knowledge about drivers for acer aspire 5315-2290 let me kno, please
June 7th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Hi,
I have acer aspire 4315 and using Windows XP2. I have a problem, when i am using the notebook, my screen goes white and i cant work again unless i restart the computer.
Pls show me how to fix this problem.
June 7th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Ive got it all up and running!
Thanx allot!!
Greets from the Netherlands!
June 7th, 2008 at 8:22 am
eNet Management Windows XP
http://www.notebookera.com/Download.asp?ID=88916&Url=http://www.acerpanam.com/synapse/data/7117/documents/AS5670_eNet.zip
June 7th, 2008 at 5:22 am
Great! Wil try… hope it works.
Thanks.
Vista - uyobishenahnenunoe.
June 7th, 2008 at 3:57 am
I Have The Widget Software For elock and all the others…..
Uploading at the moment
June 6th, 2008 at 8:33 am
Some Acer notebook drivers links, ftp://ftp.work.acer-euro.com/notebook/ Thanks for your helps!!
June 6th, 2008 at 5:28 am
anyone have have or know where i can find drivers for acer aspire 5315-2290? Please help i need to rid of vista!
June 6th, 2008 at 1:41 am
Thank You! Seriously saved my life after a month without a computer followed by three days of battling my Acer to get rid of Linpus and XP/Ubuntu installed